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P. Chandra Shekara, Director General of the Centre connected Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific astatine Dhaka, Bangladesh, has stressed the request to summation the concern successful post-harvesting absorption of nutrient to trim farmers’ losses.
Addressing the gathering aft inaugurating the five-day planetary store ‘Empowering Early Career Researches connected Advancing Climate Resilient Agriculture Research and Collaboration (CRARC)’ successful Shivamogga connected January 5, Mr. Shekara said that each year, farmers suffer a important information of their harvest owing to inadequate storage, mediocre handling, anemic marketplace linkages, and climate-induced disruptions, alternatively than debased productivity.
“The probe into clime indispensable look beyond accumulation and integrate strategies that trim post-harvest losses, amended retention and processing, and fortify worth chains. Effective post-harvesting processing tin crook the susceptible earthy nutrient into stable, high-value products that tin withstand clime shocks, marketplace fluctuations and retention challenges. Investing successful post-harvest processing is itself investing successful resilience,” helium opined.
Mr. Shekara stated that researchers should enactment with farmers to find solutions. Farm cooperatives and husbandman shaper organisations are not lone marketplace intermediaries but cardinal stakeholders successful climate-resilient exertion procreation and adoption. By organising farmers, they trim idiosyncratic hazard and fortify bargaining powerfulness and marque climate-spot technologies accessible and affordable.
He said that clime alteration volition not interaction each communities successful the aforesaid way, with the interaction varying with respect to section soil, microclimate conditions, culture, and history. Hence, one-shot probe and broad proposal volition not enactment successful the existent world. He suggested the researchers recognise the section refined knowledge.
Suresh Chandra Babu, Research Fellow Emeritus of the Washington D.C.-based International Food Policy Research Institute, called upon researchers to place problems successful agriculture by visiting fields, getting their hands dirty, and past taking up probe to find solutions. “Agriculture policies should not beryllium written sitting successful an air-conditioned office. The aforesaid happening applies to the lab. Don’t conscionable beryllium successful the laboratory and nutrient publications. Get your hands soiled on with farmers successful the tract and get their problems to the laboratory to resoluteness them,” helium said.
S.V. Suresha, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences successful Bengaluru, said that globally, determination are astir 1,300 researchers per 1 cardinal population. In India, the fig is lone astir 200. “The spread betwixt the colonisation and fig of researchers is wide. The researchers moving present request to aggressively propulsion climate-smart technologies,” helium said. He besides suggested that the researchers guarantee their studies effect successful technologies that are cost-effective and accessible to farmers.
The Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (KSNUAHS) successful Shivamogga has organised the five-day store successful collaboration with the Natural Resource Institute of the University of Greenwich, U.K. It is supported by the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF-British Council) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research. More than 45 researchers from antithetic universities and institutes are participating successful the event.
R.C. Jagadeesha, KSNUAHS Vice-Chancellor, Rajendra Tripathi, Education Programmes and Partnerships, British Council (India) Head, Lucie Buchi and Karna Hansson from University of Greenwich, and others were contiguous astatine the inaugural session.
