| S.No. | Organisation | Event | Objective | Target Group | Venue | Male Participated | Female Participated | Dated |
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Participation of farmers of project area in National Sheep and Wool Fair | A national level National Sheep and Wool Fair was organized by ICAR-CSWRI, Avikanagar on 8th December 2017. Hon'ble Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India, Sh. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Ji inaugurated the fair and addressed more than 2500 farmers in the event. In this fair, more than 150 farmers participated and got benefited from various activities of the fair like exhibition, kisan gosthi, display of live exhibition of elite rams and buck etc. Farmers got an opportunity to see latest technologies developed by ICAR institutes, state agricultural universities, other govt. departments, private organizations like banks and other NGOs etc. Exhibition of latest technologies was done by more than 30 organizations. Farmers interacted with more than 100 experts of various departments in the exhibition and updated their knowledge in diverse fields of agriculture and allied subjects. | Farmer | ICAR-CSWRI, Avikanagar, Teh. Malpura, District-Tonk, Rajasthan | 135 | 15 |
12/8/2017
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Meeting with Sarpanch and members of Gram Panchayat of project area | To discuss with Sarpanch and members about activities to be done in coming months under Farmer FIRST project. Meeting was held on 22 July 2017. | Farmer | Chainpur gram panchayat | 10 | 1 |
7/22/2017
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Training programme on integrated farming | Objective of the training was to acquaint the farmers of project area on integrated farming techniques. They learned in the training latest techniques of integrated farming system. | Farmer | ICAR-CSWRI, Avikanagar | 25 | 0 |
3/16/2018
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Scientist-farmer interaction meet on 17 March 2018 | Objective of scientist-farmer interactive meet was to address the queries of farmers along with imparting knowledge of agriculture and allied subjects to farmers. This meet was held on 17 March 2018. On that day a live animal exhibition and display of technologies of the institute was done with focus on the theme “Doubling the farmer’s Income”. During the programme, a live programmme of the Hon’ble Prime Minister speech (11:30 AM to 01:30 PM) from “Krishi Unnati Mela’ New Delhi was also telecast which was attended by more than 1000 participants including farmers, Public Representative (MLAs, Pradhan, Sarpanch etc.). | Farmer | ICAR-CSWRI, Avikanagar | 60 | 85 |
3/17/2018
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Training on Livelihood Security of Farmers through Integrated Scientific Sheep and Goat Management Practices | A training on "Livelihood Security of Farmers through Integrated Scientific Sheep and Goat Management Practices" was imparted to a batch of 25 farmers of project area. Farmers learnt sheep and goat management practices by interacting with experts of the fields. Farmers also visited sectors of sheep and goat of the institute and learnt how to set up a model sheep and goat farm. | Farmer | ICAR-CSWRI Avikanagar | 25 | 0 |
3/2/2017
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Integrated Farming System for Livelihood Improvement and Economic Empowerment of Farmers | A 2-days training on "Integrated Farming System for Livelihood Improvement and Economic Empowerment of Farmers" was organized for 25 farmers of project area. The main objective of the training was to provide farmers an exposure of integrated farming system for livelihood improvement and economic empowerment of farmers. The training covered topics like introduction of Farmer FIRST project, integrated farming system, goat rearing for milk and meat, self-help group formation and functioning, importance of soil health card, scheme of Central and State Govt. for farmers and wool shearing, sorting, dying and value addition etc. Farmers were also given practical exposure of the topics that were covered in the training programme. | Farmer | ICAR-CSWRI Avikanagar | 22 | 3 |
2/14/2017
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Exposure visit of farmers to ICAR institutes | An exposure visit of 45 farmers was made to ICAR-DRMR, Bharatpur, ICAR-CIRG, Makdhoom and ICAR-IARI, Pusa, New Delhi during 29 January 2018 to 31 January 2018. The main objective of the visit was to make farmers learn by "seeing is believing" principle of teaching-learning process. Since, mustard is the main rabi crop in our project area, therefore, we choose to visit ICAR-DRMR, Bhatarpur to have a visit there. Farmers of project area interacted with scientists of the institute and got their queries addressed. After that, farmers visited ICAR-CIRG Makhdoom for getting latest knowledge about goat rearing. Farmers learnt there about different breeds of goat like Beetal, Barbari, Jakhrana etc. After that farmers visited ICAR-IARI, Pusa, New Delhi and got an exposure of latest technologies in drip irrigation, green house farming, vegetable crops etc. Overall, this visit was a fruitful visit from which farmers of all categories got benefitted. | Farmer | ICAR-DRMR, Bharatpur, ICAR-CIRG, Makdhoom and ICAR-IARI, Pusa, New Delhi | 45 | 0 |
1/29/2018
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Interaction with farmers | A team of Farmer FIRST project, PI and Co-PIs, under chairmanship of Head, Animal Nutrition organized a meeting (goshti) with more than 40 farmers on 20 June 2018 in Chosla village of Farmer FIRST project area. Team interacted with farmers on many issues like kharif crops, rabi crops, breed improvement of animals etc. In between the Gosthi, farmers listened to live telecast programme of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Sh. Narendra Modi’s talk with farmers on doubling farmers’ income by 2022. The Prime Minister said the four cornerstones for raising farm income are cutting input cost, fair price for the crop, preventing the produce from rotting and creating alternate sources of income. After the talk, the goshti continued and ended with vote of thanks given by the farmers to the Farmer FIRST project team. | Farmer | Chosla village | 40 | 2 |
6/20/2018
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Exposure visit of farmers to ICAR institutes | We organized a visit of 37 farmers to ICAR-NRCSS, Ajmer and ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur from 12 September 2018 to 13 September 2018 with an objective to acquaint farmers with latest knowledge and techniques of spices crops and other arid region technologies like horticultural crops. We first visited ICAR-NRCSS Ajmer and learnt economics of spices crops there. On next day, we participated in a Kisan fair organized by ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur. Farmers interacted with the experts of numerous fields in the stalls put by many ICAR, Central Govt. departments, state department and NGOs etc. The visit was a fruitful visit for the farmers because it enhanced their knowledge base of various crop technologies. | Farmer | ICAR-NRCSS, Ajmer and ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur | 37 | 0 |
9/12/2018
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Celebration of Kisan Diwas on 23 Kisan Diwas in the field | A large scale Kisan Diwas programme was organized with more than 100 farmers on 23 December 2018 in village Bassi of Farmer FIRST programme. The programme was chaired by Dr. Arun Kumar, Acting Director, and attended by Heads of Divisions of the Institute and all Farmer FIRST project team members. The programme was celebrated with spirit and zeal of farmer fraternity by inviting farmers, students and women farmers of project villages. In the programme, scientists and farmers shared their knowledge on various aspect of farming. An animal health camp was also organized on that day in the village, in which 700 sheep and 100 goats were given treatment symptomatically. The Acting Director and all Heads of Divisions and PI of the project spoke on importance of keeping recognized breed of animals, feeding animals balanced diet, benefits of plantation in the fields, on animal health etc. | Farmer | Bassi village | 110 | 5 |
12/23/2018
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | Farmers-Scientist Sangosthi | ICAR-CSWRI Avikanagar celebrated its 58th foundation day on 4th January, 2019, At this occasion, “Farmers-Scientist Sangosthi” was organized in which about 600 farmers interacted with institute scientists. Institute developed technologies were depicted through exhibition and live animal exhibition of elite ram, buck and rabbit was also organized. Hon’ble MLA Shri Kanhaiya Lal Choudhary as chief guest, Dr. R.S. Gandhi, ADG (Animal Science, ICAR, New Delhi) as special guest and Directors from ICAR Institute Dr. Gopal Lal (NRCSS), Dr. KhemChand (IGFRI), Dr. R. K. Sawal (NRCC), Dr. P. L. Saroj (ICAH) and Col. Sh. K.S. Shekhawat, Executive Director of CWDB, Jodhpur as Guest of Honour graced the occasion and provided valuable inputs in doubling the farmer’s income. Director Dr. Arun Kumar Tomar elaborated the technologies of institute developed in last 57 years for the benefit of farmers and emphasized for scientific rearing of sheep in order to enhance the farmer’s income. | Farmer | ICAR-CSWRI Avikanagar | 120 | 20 |
1/4/2019
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| ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute | National Sheep and Farmer Fair | A national level Sheep and Farmer Fair was organised by ICAR-Central Sheep & Wool Research Institute (CSWRI), Avikanagar with an objective to give an exposure of technologies developed by ICAR and other organizations. The event was chaired by Hon'ble Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare, Shri. Radha Mohan Singh ji. The fair was an opportunity for the farmers to get acquainted with latest developments in the field of agriculture and allied subjects by visiting stalls of institutes and interacting with the experts available at the stalls. | General Users | ICAR-CSWRI Avikanagar | 200 | 25 |
9/29/2018
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