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Mumbai : Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar has appealed to agricultural scientists to see to it that their knowledge-based researches percolated down to the farmers for augmenting grain production and creating food security.
Inaugurating a three-day international seminar on agriculture and knowledge management organised by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), US, Sarkar said, "There is a gap between the researchers and the small and marginal farmers with the latest knowledge of agricultural development not reaching to them (farmers)."
Sarkar said a mechanism must be devised for exchange of knowledge and ideas between the farmers and the scientists and the latter must understand the problems of the farmers who should be given good idea for generating more income.
Former vice-chancellor of Kerala Agricultural University Dr K V Peter said the farmers' income did not match up with that of the industrial workers and suggested more incentives to them for augmentation of food production. Director of IFPRI Kwadwo Asenso-Okyers said poverty and hunger were the two major challenges for food security of the under-developed and less developed countries. The function was presided over by IGNOU vice-chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai.
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