Live Telecast of Prime Minister-Farmers Interaction Meet at ICAR-NRRI on 16.12.2021
A programme was arranged for viewing the live telecast of Hon’ble Prime Minister’s address to the nation on December 16, 2021 at 11.00 AM via video conferencing. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was addressing the valedictory session of the National Summit on Agro and Food Processing as part of Pre-event Vibrant Gujarat Summit held in Anand, Gujarat from 14th to 16th December 2021. He addressed the farmers and scientists and added that “world is back to basic, which means connecting to our roots’’ and “our journey of upcoming 25 years from now is very important’’. Earlier, Union Minister for Agriculture, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar and Union Minister for Cooperation, Mr. Amit Shah also addressed the delegates and deliberated upon the linking natural farming to scientific excellence. Detailed contours of Natural Farming was presented by His Highness Governor of Gujarat Sri Devabrata Acharya. A group of above 120 farmers belonging to scheduled caste categories were invited to the Institute who attended the Prime Minister’s Programme, who later visited the Institutes research farm, museum and other facilities. The Director of the Institute, Dr. Padmini Swain welcomed the farmers and briefed them about Prime Minister’s vision in respect of integrating past values for future development. Apart from the farmers, about 800 staff members comprising Scientific, Technical, and Administrative personnel as well as students also had joined the live telecast of the programme.
The SCSP Committee arranged the full programme under the supervision of Dr. Biswajit Mondal, Nodal Officer and coordination of Dr. S.K. Mishra, Principal Scientist, Social Science Division.
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