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Rural Marketing

By Benjamin Kaman |

Rural agricultural marketing in North East India is still unorganised and in a poor state though the wheel of time has changed the overall marketing scnerio with trendy adsvertisings.

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Families join forces to plant their paddy

Community paddy transplantation is an age old practice in Assam, which has depleted to a great extent in the last few years. To counter this, all the 120 farm families of Majpara village of Goalpara district of Assam are continuing the tradition of community paddy transplantation in community land. This year it was done on morning hours of 3rd August, where both men and women of all the families participated in different activities of uprooting from seedbed, carrying to field and transplantation in a festive mood.

Hoolock Gibbons in Chandubi forests

Gibbon is the only ape species found in Indian subcontinent. The uniqueness of Hoolock Gibbon is that it is found in only three countries in the world- South West China, North East India and East Bangladesh. Western Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) and Eastern Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys) are the two representatives of gibbons found in India. The third species Skywalker Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock tianxing) is confined to South-Western China. Their distribution is restricted to the south bank of the Brahmaputra and East of Dibang river system in the northeast India. The western hoolock gibbon has the wider distribution of the two, occurring in seven states of the Northeast region, namely...

World Soil Health Day at Goalpara

Krishi Vigyan Kendra Goalpara observed "World Soil Health Day 2016" at its office premises today on 5th December 2016 in technical collaboration with District Agriculture Office, Goalpara. Er. Tankeswar Rabha, Chief Executive Councillor, Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council and Mr. Dipak Kumar Rabha, MLA, 36 Dudhnoi LAC and the officers addressed the gathering farmers on various aspects of soil health.  

District level Art Exhibition and 3D Art at Dudhnoi

A district-level Art Exhibition in Jana Mandir, Dudhnoi is being held from October 8-11. Organsied by RTL Events, this is the first of its kind in the Goalpara distric, where fifteen artists from various parts of the district and over three hundred students of various schools have participated. A 3 Dimensional art of Goddess Durga was specially painted for the occasion. The event brought together fifteen artists to a common platform including Ghanakanta Rabha, Himdpita Kakati, Bandana Borthakur, Dhiraj Rabha, Ashim Roy, Debajit Guha, Kulen Khaklari, Gaurav Kumar Nath, Nitish Bhakat Brahma, Priyanka Tara Rabha, Hitesh Rajbongshi, Karan Khaklari, Disa Roy, Kangkana Das, and Chinmoy Das. The...

Art workshop

Chitrangkon Academy an Art School in Dudhnoi, Goalpara had conducted Summer Art and Craft Workshop in July 2014. 3D Art, a new form of art was introduced for the first time in Assam in this workshop by Mr. Ghanakanta Rabha an alumnus of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. 3D art was performed again in this years edition of the same workshop on 22nd July 2015. This years theme was "SAVE TREES TO SAVE THE EARTH". Co-artists included Himdipta Kakati, Dhiraj Rabha, Samudra Rabha, John Rabha. Deputy Commissioner of Goalpara district JVN Subramanyam, IAS, also attended the workshop and appreciated the noble works of the artists and encouraged the young participants. The 3D art was a part of a...

Farm mechanization for better agriculture

Agriculture is one of the earliest vocations for livelihood. Through ages, agriculture has gone through many changes and improvements. However, the transfer and adoption of advancements in agriculture and allied sectors in our region is far below National average. It is also important to note that agriculture and allied sectors employ major share of population (60% of India’s rural population in 2013-14) and therefore its modernization is the best possible way for sustainable socio-economic upliftment and also to create mass employment opportunities.  Today, agriculture is no more confined just to farm activities but has become an enterprise requiring lot of educated manpower for...

Administrative Building at KVK Goalpara inaugurated

Secretary, DARE & Director General, ICAR, Dr. S Ayyappan inaugurates Administrative Building of KVK Goalpara in presence of Dr. S N Puri, VC, CAU; Dr. K M L Pathak, DDG, ICAR; Dr S V Ngachan, Director, ICAR RC for NEH Region; Dr. D K Sarma, Director NRC on Pig, Dr A K Gogoi, ZPD, Zone III, ICAR; staff, invitees and farmers on 26th March 2014 at Dudhnoi.

KVK Goalpara organizes Field Day in Dhanubhanga

A field day was organised in Madang village, Dhanubhanga, Goalpara under the Front Line Demonstration (FLD) “Pitcher Drip Irrigation in Banana” by Krishi Vigyan Kendra Goalpara. One hundred and ten farmers from Madang and neighbouring villages gathered on the occasion. The programme began with a talk by Er. Benjamin Kaman on the pitcher drip irrigation technology. He stressed on irrigating Banana plants during winter months for enhancing production and the need of adopting drip for best use of water. This was followed by a talk on Banana cultivation technology by Mr. Biswajit Dey, SMS (Horticulture). He stressed on quality sapling selection, proper spacing and timely monitoring of the crop...

Summer art workshop

A three day long summer art workshop was organised by a leading art school, Chitrangkon Academy at Dudhnoi during  July 15-17, attended by nearly 80 students. Several artists from Goalpara district were resource persons in the programme covering various aspects of fine art. The programme was first of its kind in Dudhnoi and students are asking for more such programmes in future.

World Environment Day observed by KVK Goalpara W

World Environment Day was observed Madang village in Dhanubhanga, Goalpara by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Goalpara with active participation of the farmers of the village. The day long programme consisted of a training on “Soil and Water Conservation”, a discussion on “World Environment Day”, a procession from the village to the crop field and finally ended with planting of 160 trees in the farmers field along the Deosila River.At the beginning of the session, Er. Benjamin Kaman discussed various aspects of soil and water conservation. He also discussed on maintaining ecological balance and need of the trees in the crop fields for supporting various birds which feed on insects. Dr. Hitu Choudhury...