The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Regional Centre of Organic Farming, Bhubaneswar in collaboration with social organisation ‘Nihida’ organised an awareness programme and workshop to provide training to farmers on organic farming at Ketakipatana and Mahura panchayats under of Gop block in Puri district recently.
Around 200 farmers from the panchayats participated in the programme in which the farmers agreed to build a cluster of seven villages from seven panchayats for organic farming in 50 acres of land.
Scientist RCOF Dr MK Palliwala, Nihida secretary Bhakta Charan Mishra, Ketakipatana sarpanch Niranjan Majhi, PS member Mamata Bhoi, Mahura cooperative society president Benudhar Baral, Dinabandhu Swain, Bikramadatta Parida, Prahallad Nayak and Laxmidhar Patra were present.