The Union Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare through National Bee Board (NBB) has conducted a National Conclave on “Wild and Forest Honey” with collaboration of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED).
Sweet Revolution has enabled the tribal beekeepers to fetch a price 1.5 to 2 times more than earlier one.
100 FPOs of Beekeepers/ Honey Producers have been identified by NBB, out of these, 14 FPOs have been allotted to TRIFED which are promoting production of wild honey through its “Van Dhan Programme” being implemented in 27 states and 307 districts. The national conclave was held on Thursday.
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has organized special Campaign through Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institutes at Budhni, Hisar, Anantapur & Biswanath Chariali.
In this programme, various agricultural machinery equipments were demonstrated. In addition, there was an interface between Innovators & Industry through webinar at Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute, Hisar (Haryana).
Considering the nutritional aspect, a special programme in the name of Nutri-Cereals has been included in National Food Security Mission to promote the nutri cereal crops.
With the initiatives of Govt. of India, the United Nations has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets.
Various activities/programmes organised across the country on the 3rd day of the “Kisan Bhagidari Prathmikta Hamari” Campaign under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
The “Kisan Bhagidari Prathmikta Hamari” campaign under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav has commenced from 25th April and will be organized till 30thApril, 2022 to create the awareness on various schemes and their benefits for the farming community across the country.
In Jute crop, demonstration and farmers training on improved Jute production technology were also organized at West Bengal.
MP (Pollachi) K Shanmugasundaram inaugurated the Centre of Excellence at Dhali, Tamilnadu.
A three day Virtual Trade Fair on Coconut Products show casing a variety of diversified processed products from different parts of coconut was also kick started as part of the programme.
A State / district / block level seminar was organized at Kavarathi where 200 tribal women participated in the programme.
