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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Set up agri clinics to address farmers' needs'

'Set up agri clinics to address farmers' needs'

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published Published on Nov 28, 2012   modified Modified on Nov 28, 2012
-The Times of India

VADODARA/ ANAND: Agri-clinic-cum-agri-business centres that address the needs of farming families should be set up across the country. Father of India's Green Revolution professor M S Swaminathan advocated this on Monday.

Eminent geneticist and member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, professor Swaminathan said this while delivering the first Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA).

 IRMA has constituted the memorial lecture series which will be held annually to mark the birth anniversary of its founder chairman and Father of White Revolution Dr Kurien.

On Monday, which was Kurien's 91st birth anniversary, Swaminathan delivered the first lecture of the series on 'The Cooperative Pathway of Enhancing Rural Livelihood and Nutrition Security'.

Paying homage to Kurien, who passed away on September 9 this year, Swaminathan touched on various anomalies assailing the agricultural sector and the lessons it can learn from the dairy sector.

"The achievements of our dairy sector show that small scale dairy farming need not be a handicap if the technologies of production by masses and of mass production can be integrated in a suitable manner," he said.

Expressing regret over the "disinterest of the younger generation in farming and the consequent diversion of prime farm land for non-farm purposes", Swaminathan advocated that the programme that Government of India had launched to enable farm graduates to start agri-clinics and agri-business centres, should be restructured.

"Ideally, a group of four to five farm graduates, who have specialised in agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, agri-business and home science, could jointly launch an agri-clinic-cum-agri-business centre in every block of the state. The multi-disciplinary expertise available within the group of young entrepreneurs will help them serve farm families in a holistic manner. Such as integrated centre can be named - Agricultural Transformation Centre," he said.

The lecture was attended by Molly Kurien, Nirmala Kurien, alumni, faculty and staff of IRMA apart from senior employees of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, National Dairy Development Board, Amul and other sister organizations at Anand.

The Times of India, 27 November, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-27/vadodara/35386615_1_agri-business-agri-clinics-dairy-sector


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