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Published By: Admin on: 2013-07-04
A seven days’ regional level technical training on value chain commodities off-season vegetables, vegetable seeds, ginger, turmeric, timur and goat for partner NGO staff was conducted by High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP) in Dailekh. The training was organised at the District Livestock Services Office and Agriculture Research Centre, Dailekh from 14-20 June 2013. The training was successful in enhancing the common understanding of the participants on theoretical and practical aspects of production and post-harvest management of the six value chain commodities.
The participants were oriented on goat breed, their nutrition and management aspects including problems associated with the commercial goat rearing. Likewise, they learnt applying various technologies of production and packaging for off-season vegetables, ginger, turmeric and timur and delivering the acquired technologies to the farmers at field level.
Similarly, the sessions on understanding the major diseases and pests of off-season vegetables, ginger, turmeric and timur and their management taught them on supporting technically to the farmers at field level. The sessions helped them on having clear understanding on the practices of post-harvest handling of off-season vegetables, ginger, turmeric, timur and vegetable seeds to minimise the cost of production. It also helped developing an understanding on principle and practices of vegetable seeds production and the prevailing laws and directives related to the seed quality standards.
Likewise, the participants learnt preparing mineral block and tatno related to goat value chain and preparing nursery raised beds with plastic covering for off-season vegetables. Similarly, they also learnt about facilitating rhizome (ginger, turmeric) treatment and vigour, purity and germination test of seed.
The training is expected to increase the effectiveness of partner NGO staff and the exposure to the best agriculture practices in the Agriculture Research Station and farmers’ field in Dailekh is expected to motivate the farmers to adopt those practices.