Date: 13 July 2013
Place: VASFA, Vaishali
Total Number of Farmers: 16

Hands-on Training on Mechanical Transplanting held in Vaislahi

The CSISA project organized a hands-on training session in collaboration with the Vaishali Area Small Farmers Association (VASFA) for select farmers who were invited to understand the operation of mechanical rice transplanters. The event was organised in Vaishali, Bihar, on 13 July 2013. Mr. Upendra Kumar Sharma, Chief Functionary, VASFA, and Dr. Pankaj Kumar, CSISA, facilitated the technical session.

During the program, issues related to various schemes of the Government of Bihar being implemented to mechanize the agriculture sector and the ways to make use of the potential advantages of such schemes were also discussed.