Farmers from the Andamans undergo training at ICAR-NRCB

The ICAR–National Research Centre for Banana (ICAR-NRCB) successful Tiruchi and Department of Agriculture, Andaman and Nicobar Island, jointly organised a grooming programme connected post-harvest absorption and worth summation of banana for farmers from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the nonsubjective of promoting banana-based entrepreneurship successful coastal agro-ecosystems.

Speaking astatine the inaugural session, R. Selvarajan, Director, ICAR-NRCB, amended returns tin beryllium achieved successful banana cultivation done post-harvest absorption and improvement of value-added products. This would foster holistic agro-based entrepreneurship.

The farmers were exposed to post-harvest management, mentation of banana-based value-added products specified arsenic banana fig, banana cardinal halfway stem juice, banana stem, angiosperm pickle, and fibre-based products during the training. Besides they were fixed an predisposition connected hi-tech banana cultivation practices, banana-based Integrated Farming Systems (IFS), and accusation connected authorities schemes and organization enactment for entrepreneurship.

They were taken connected an vulnerability sojourn to the Thottiam Banana Producer Group (TBPG), a pioneering husbandman shaper organisation (FPO), and SVS Foundation successful Namakkal District, an enactment focusing connected sustainability, women empowerment, and eco-friendly initiatives, according to a property merchandise from ICAR-NRCB.