By Bijoy PTC Handique

 

Jorhat: Like the previous years the 30th Krishak Divas was organized by Regional Agricultural Research Station, Titabor following inauguration, interaction with farmers, field demonstration of various paddy breeds, field visit and drone demonstration as how drone helping scientists to control pest and other diseases during its various stages till the period of harvesting and how proper surveillance output report for pest infection in the experimental filed where a total of 45 number of latest variety of Ahu and Sali rice being produced for seeds . It may be mentioned that a total of 500 ahu and 1500 Sali local variety of which 45 are of latest that’s making records for years , said Dr. Tomiz-uddin Ahmed, the chief scientist of the station here today.

 

The 30th Krishak Divas that is Farmers’Day was an annual affair of the station at Titabor and the day was inaugurated by Dr. Ashik Bhattacharyya, the Vice Chancellor incharge of AAU among others were Dr. Jayanta Deka-Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Hemanta Das-a progressive farmer from Merapani, Golaghat was felicitated in presence of farmers from Sivasagar, Majuli, Charaideo, Golaghat, Jorhat among agricultural experts, faculty members from four colleges viz College of Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture and Community Science along with students.

 

Day long Expo in agricultural activities along with Rain Forest Research Institute, Tocklai Tea Research Institute, North East Institute of Science and Technology, Fishery Research Station, Rubber Board of India etc. Moreover during the inaugural session of the day long Farmers ‘Day the vice chancellor Dr, Bhattacharyya called upon the farmers to come forward to take the latest technical tips from the AAU scientists here as just because of the 45 new variety of paddy findings at RARS, Titabor the station is soon to be declared as National level status by the Government of India which is the very good result for the farmers ‘fraternity and the people of this region in days to come.

 

We celebrate this day like a farmers ‘festival as Titabor is well known for bumper paddy cultivation and just  adjacent to our experimental paddy field – there lies historic Bosapathar which the Ahom king named it since 1246 (Bosapathar means selected paddy field) . On this day 80% of the farmers both Rabi and Kharif comes out in cluster whereas schools and office goers comes to the station and enjoy the Divas to know about the latest techniques of paddy cultivation for maintenance of crops and other farming, said Dr. Ranjit Kumar Choudhury, former scientist from the station during the day long farmers festival