The ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur organized a Webinar for the farmers of Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh on 5th May 2021 under the programme ‘Bharat ki Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’. A total of 60 participants including farmers, researcher, students etc participated in this webinar. Dr. J.S. Mishra, Director, inaugurated and stated that proper crop management is very important in order to achieve the higher crop productivity of crops and timely weed management plays very crucial role. He also urged the farmers to get the maximum benefit of the demonstrations exhibited at their fields and also try to interact as much as possible to the scientists of the Directorate, so that the improved crop management technologies in general and weed management techniques in particular will reach to them timely and effectively. Dr. P.K. Singh, Principal investigator of the project detailed about the various activities being implemented by the ICAR-DWR under the project in Damoh District, which has been identified as one of the aspirational district by the Govt. of India. Dr. V.K. Choudhary and Er. Chethan, C.R. Co-PIs of the project highlighted about crop management practices on summer greengram and blackgram, They also explained the importance and safety issues of herbicide spray and nozzle selection. The webinar was facilitated by Mr. Dharmendra Baghele and Mr. Jainpal Rathore (YP-II) from ICAR-DWR, Jabalpur and Mr. Durgesh Rathore from Manthan. At the end, webinar was ended with vote of thanks.

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