In pursuance of the ICAR direction, ICAR-DWR carried out social and digital media campaign to increase awareness and encourage the farmers to utilize agro-wastes for compost preparation throughout the month of July 2021. For this purpose slogans on composting and vermi-composting of weed biomass were communicated to 2519 farmers through SMS and to 1289 farmers through WhatsApp.
The same were also uploaded and flashed through the Directorates Websites, facebook account and twitter handle. A video on preparation of vermi-compost from water hyacinth and an extension folder in pdf format on compost preparation from Parthenium, which were published by ICAR-DWR, Jabalpur, were uploaded in the Directorate’s facebook account and twitter handle.The link for the same was communicated to the farmers through WhatsApp messages.