Village Knowledge Centre inaugurated at KVK, Sonitpur

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TEZPUR: Inauguration of Virtual Village Knowledge Centre and demonstration of plant clinic as well as other ICT based tools under upscaling activities of NIBIO-Climate Resilience project was conducted at KVK, Sonitpur. The village centre was inaugurated by lighting the lamp by Dr. Arifa Momtaz Begum, I/C Head, KVK, Sonitpur and Dr. R. Rajkumar, Principal Scientist, MSSRF, Chennai. Dr. Milon Jyoti Konwar, Junior Scientist, RARS Titabar. They discussed the objectives of the village knowledge centre and different works going under this center.

Dr. R. Rajkumar discussed different ICT tools like voice call, audio and video conferences, video-based learning, helpline service, phone-in programme and further a demonstration was conducted with farmers on phone-in programme. He also explained that MSSRF has been using the different ICT tools for the past 20 years to address farming issues.

Later Dr. Parinda Baruwa, Junior Scientist, RARS, Titabar demonstrated on plant clinic and explained about importance and working procedure of plant clinic. The programme was attended by 20 farmers and 34 numbers of agriculture students and they actively participated.

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