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ICAR-IIHR all set for Horticulture Fair to be held from Feb 8 in virtual mode
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Thursday, 21 January, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) -Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR) is all set for the 4th National Horticulture Fair which is scheduled to be held from February 8 to 12, 2021, at its campus, in virtual mode. The event would showcase 216 technologies of the ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru and also to connect with the Farmer Producer Organisations to take up the technologies as an entrepreneurship. The theme of this fair is ‘Horticulture: For start-up and stand-up India'.
In order to give a boost to the off line event, the it unveiled a website of India's biggest horticulture fair launched by Dr M R Dinesh, Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticulture Research & Chairman, National Horticulture Fair. Also present were Dr Dhananjaya M V, Principal Scientist and organising secretary, NHF2021; and Dr B Narayanaswamy, Principal Scientist and nodal officer, Media; Dr K K Upreti, nodal officer, AKMU, along with Dr B M C Reddy, former Vice Chancellor, Dr YSRHU; Dr K Kumar, former head, ICAR-RCER RC, Ranchi; Dr Prakash Patil, project coordinator (fruits); and Dr Aswath C, Head, Division of Floriculture, and general secretary SPH, and Principal Scientist.
Dr Dinesh informed that due to the Covid-19 pandemic the fair has to be taken to a virtual platform with less physical attendance making it a hybrid event.
This fair is organised in collaboration with Society for Promotion of Horticulture, Bengaluru, and BESST-HORT TBI of ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru, ICAR-ATARI (Zone-11) Bengaluru, National Horticulture Board, Gurugram and The Sri Sri Institute of Agricultural Sciences & Technology Trust (AOL), Bengaluru. Last year’s event in February had an average of 20,000 footfalls per day on all the four days with a huge surge on the last day that touched over a lakh.
At the event , 11 ICAR-ATARIs (Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes) horticulture universities and all the state horticulture departments of the country are participating. Over 700 KVKs (Krishi Vigyan Kendras)/Farm Science Centres, more than 300 FPOs and AOL farmers training centres of 16 states of the country would be connected through various hubs.
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