IARI Jharkhand to help create employment, economic growth through skilled manpower
Updated: Jun 26, 2015 04:43:44pm
It will ensure an overall social impact in terms of employment generation through best skilled scientific, technical, administrative and supporting manpower.
The state will soon establish Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) to motivate and promote technology-driven growth of agro-industries through first generation entrepreneurs of the region to provide a fillip for the ‘Make in India initiative’. This will also develop ancillary industries for rural employment and economic empowerment.
Foundation stone of the campus of institute will be laid by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on June 28, 2015 at Goriya Karma village in Barhi, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
IARI-Jharkhand will achieve inclusive agricultural growth through Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) in the region.
The growth will be achieved through multi-disciplinary research centred in 3 major schools namely School of Natural Resource Management; School of Crop Improvement and Protection and School of Horticulture and Forestry with integrated animal sciences, basic sciences and social sciences components for catering to the local farming system needs of the region.
The institute will attract the cream of post graduate and doctoral students from all over India and abroad to conduct region specific research.
IARI - the seat of Green Revolution - has played a pivotal leadership role of transforming Indian food production system from “ship to mouth” to “self-reliant sustainable agriculture”.
Trained human resource, extension methodologies and initiatives to take the technologies to farmers for improved agricultural productivity and production are the hallmarks of this century old institution. (KNN/ST)