Director, CSIR-NEIST along with Dr Siddhartha P Saikia, Principal Scientist & Principal Investigator, and Dr Mohan Lal, Senior Scientist & Co-Investigator, CSIR-Aroma Mission visited the High Mountain Arid Agriculture Research Institute

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Dr G Narahari Sastry, Director, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat along with Dr Siddhartha P Saikia, Principal Scientist & Principal Investigator, and Dr Mohan Lal, Senior Scientist & Co-Investigator, CSIR-Aroma Mission visited the High Mountain Arid Agriculture Research Institute (HMAARI), Leh, Ladakh under Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir on 22nd September 2021. Dr Sastry along with his team of scientists had a meeting with Dr D Namgyal, Associate Director (R&E), HMAARI, Leh and his team, on CSIR-NEIST initiatives for S&T-led development in J&K and also on human resource development through training the farmers, farm women, unemployed youth and extension workers and to involve them in the process of technology generation in agriculture and allied fields. Dr Sastry stressed on imparting learning through "work experience" to those who are engaged in farming and also emphasized on Teaching by doing and Learning by doing to be the main methods of imparting skill training.The discussion was also held regarding the testing and transfer of agricultural technologies to bridge the gap between production and productivity. Later, high-yielding varieties of Citronella, Lemongrass and Kaempferia galanga developed by CSIR-NEIST under the CSIR-Aroma Mission were planted by Director, CSIR-NEIST in the experimental farm of HMAARI, Leh as Multilocational Trial.

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