State to set up 2 biofertiliser production units in two districts
DIMAPUR: A three-day training programme on “Mother Culture Maintenance, Mass production, and Storage of Bio-Fertilizer for Promotion of Organic Farming in North East India”, was held at Bio-Organic Quality Control laboratory, district Soil Conservation office, Dimapur from March 24 to 26.
According to a DIPR report, the training programme was organised by College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Science, CAU (Imphal), Umian, Meghalaya and sponsored by director, Extension Division.
Resource persons, Dr. Dwipendra Thakuria, Dr. Juri Sandhya Barik, and Dr. Sapu Changkija imparted training on the topic acid soils of Nagaland and its productivity challenges, biofertiliser as a component of organic soil management practice, jhum cultivation, preparation of culture media, broth cultures for mass production of bio-fertilizer, extraction of Rhizobium from the soil and root nodules and their maintenance on YEMA plates, inoculation and incubation of broth culture.
Altogether, 26 professionals from Agri and allied departments attended the training.
In line with the state organic policy, the state government would be setting up two biofertiliser production units in two districts and ten biofertilisers production units were coming up in all the old districts in the current year 2021-22, DIPR report informed.
It also said that three technologies have been transferred from Central Agriculture University, Imphal to the state government through the office of the state agriculture production commissioner and would include two bioenhancers and one biopesticide.