Raiganj :

With an objective to make the farmers interested for the start of the coconut cultivation, the officials of Coconut Board of India started six days professional and residential training camp for the farmers in the office of Comprehensive Agricultural Development Corporation at Kaliyaganj of North Dinajpur district since today.

Forty farmers including some women from different blocks of the district are receiving this training here.

The Deputy Director of Coconut Board of India Mr Khakan Debnath reportedly inaugurated this training today.

The officials of district horticulture and officials of CADC organized this training.

Deputy Director of Coconut Board of India Mr Khakan Debnath said: Farmers had an idea that sea side was only ideal field for coconut cultivation.

But recently we prepared a high breed coconut plant which is ideal for cultivation in the soil of North Bengal districts.

So we invited the farmers to get training and start coconut cultivation on profession ways in North Dinajpur district.

Such coconut saplings will be available from the office of CADC in Kaliyaganj.

After five years the plant will bear fruit. If the farmers cultivate on the baisis of professional ways ,then government will provide them special subsidy.

The farmers will get atleast Rs 1000 from each tree in a year.

The Horticulture Officer of North Dinajpur Mr Samarendranath Khara said: We are helping the Coconut Board of India to conduct this training for the rise of coconut cultivation in our district.

Through a projector skin they are demonstrating the farmers about the way of nurturing coconut plants.

The farmers are being taught about the using of manure to the trees, its lookafter and the way of climbing the trees with a modern machine. We hope that such camp will create an interest among the farmers for cultivation of coconut in our district.

source: http://www.thestatesman.net / The Statesman / Home> Bengal / Statesman News Service / Raigang – August 25th, 2014