Hyderabad: The 7th batch of Agronomists training of the Mandal Agricultural Officers (MAO’s) begins here at the Extension Education Institute (EEI), PJTSAU, Rajendranagar. Dr. M Jaganmohan, Commissioner of Agriculture, Telanagana State was the chief guest and inaugurated the training program along with Dr. V Praveen Rao, Vice Chancellor, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU). While speaking on this occasion Dr. Jaganmohan advised the Mandal Agricultural Officers to support the farmers in villages for doing profitable agriculture by adopting the modern agricultural technologies and practices. He also suggested the MAO’s to learn more and more technical and scientific advancements in agricultural which will enhance the capabilities to deliver better services to the farmers.
While giving the presidential address Dr. V. Praveen Rao, VC, PJTSAU has emphasized the need of training program on capacity building to the MAO’s will improve the technical and scientific capabilities. And also he said that, participating in these kind of training programs will develops the networking between scientists and the agriculture officers, which will help in sharing of the latest knowledge and solving the field problems of farmers.
In this 6day training program total 34 scientists will deliver the lectures in 38 various subjects in agriculture and allied aspects. Dr. D Raji Reddy, Director of Research, PJTSAU, Dr. Anand Singh, Director, EEI were present. Across the Telangana State 50 MAO’s took part in this training.
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