The 3rd National Training Programme on ‘Advances in Weed Management’ was organized at the Directorate during 19-28 March, 2015. Dr. A.R. Sharma, Director, Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur inaugurated the course. Twenty four participants from 15 states were exposed to recent technologies on weed management for improving productivity of field/horticultural crops developed at this Directorate and elsewhere. The training course involved theory classes as well as practical exercises by the faculty of Directorate and experts invited from other Institutions. Trainees were also taken to farmers fields where DWR demonstrated the weed management technologies.

In the valedictory function held on 28th March, Dr. A. R. Sharma urged the need of integrated weed management for sustainable crop production. He emphasized on need of interdisciplinary research and focused on the importance and purpose of the training. He hoped that after taking this training, participants will be able to deal with the weed management problems in their respective fields. Dr. Sushil Kumar, Principal Scientist was Course Director and Drs. Bhumesh Kumar and Dr. Raghwendra Singh, Senior Scientist were Course Coordinators of this training programme.