Agri department conducts field visit cum training

Field visit cum training programme was conducted on March 3 at Lumami village and Sutemi village, Zunheboto, which was organized by the department of agriculture under the supervision of SDAO, Akuluto, Olem, to know the constraints faced by farmers at the field level and offer suggestions to improve their farming practices.
Olem, while appreciating the farmers’ hard work also exhorted the farmers to take up agriculture in a more sincere way so that enough food was produced to feed every Nagas and further encouraged the farmers to grow alder tree in jhum fallow land with assurance of giving incentive for every single alder trees grown in the fallow land.
The resource persons from KVK, Nagaland University, Visakho Shunyu, SMS (GPB) spoke on the improvised cultivation practices of Kholar and Soya bean where farmers were encouraged to cultivate it on large scale as it was found suitable in the area and could therefore sustain their livelihood.  Sentimenla, SMS, (soil science) spoke on the management of fallow jhum lands for sustainable soil health and enhance crop productivity. Council chairman, Lumami village, H. Shetovi Zhimo, appreciated the state department for organizing such need base programme in the farmers’ field and was of the opinion that more such activities would be initiated in future. Altogether 49 farmers attended the programme.