Agriculture Education Day Celebrated at ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack
The National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack celebrated its 7th “Agriculture Education Day” on 3rd December, 2018 in its premises with the participation of 150 students of class VIII to XII standard from 13 Schools and Junior Colleges around the city along with their teachers. The function started with an inauguration programme chaired by Dr. H. Pathak, Director, NRRI, Cuttack. One agripreneur Mr. Pradeep Mohanty was also present on this occasion. He inspired the student with his success story of initiating coffee plantation and profit making venture in Koraput district of Odisha.
The Chairman Dr. H. Pathak spoke about the importance and relevance of different disciplines of agricultural science and emphasized that a career in agricultural science would be equally challenging and intellectually satisfying as any other science discipline. He encouraged students to keep in mind Agriculture and allied subjects while choosing a career in future. On this occasion the Chairman released one educational bulletin entitled “Attracting youth for Agriculture” for the benefits of the students.
The day-long celebration was impressive with events like debate competition on “Can Agriculture provide opportunities for building a Smart career” and quiz competition on “General Agricultural Knowledge”. The Science Exhibition showcased innovative ideas of the students of all the schools in the form of models, charts, graphs and live materials on the topic “Climate Smart Agriculture”.
Trophies and certificates were presented to the winners of the competitions and exhibition, and also to all the participating students by Dr. H. Pathak, Director, NRRI and Dr. A. K. Nayak, Co-chairman of the organizing committee. Lastly Dr. Rahul Tripathi, Organizing Secretary proposed vote of thanks.
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