Dr. Suresh Kumar Chaudhari, Deputy Director General (Natural Resources Management), ICAR, New Delhi visited the ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur during 7-8 March, 2022. Dr. Chaudhari inaugurated the newly-developed “Technology Park” and “Solar energy-based irrigation system” at the Directorate’s Farm area. He also visited the Field Experiments and Laboratory Facilities at the Directorate. “The newly-created facility would help in demonstration of the new Weed Management Technologies developed by the ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh to the farmers and other stakeholders”, he said.

While interacting with the Scientists and other Staff Members, Dr. Chaudhary appreciated the Directorate’s achievements made on the various aspects of weed management. He also asked the scientists to focus more on new dimensions in weed management research such as sensor-based weeding tools and spraying techniques including drones, conservation agriculture, and crop-weed interactions and herbicide efficacy under changing climate. While addressing the participants of the National Workshop on Rajbhasha during closing session, he appealed that the technologies generated by the institutes need to be communicated to the farmers in their regional languages in a very simple way for their better uptake.

Earlier, welcoming the dignitaries, Dr. J.S. Mishra, Director, ICAR-DWR, Jabalpur briefed about the Directorate’s achievements.