Farmers interaction meeting and distribution of newly developed Pigeonpea variety Warangal Kandi-1 (WRgE-97) to the Tribal farmers’ on 17.06.2022 at ARS, Adilabad

As a Principal Investigator, AICRPDA (VC), ARS, Adilabad, PJTSAU a farmer’s interaction meeting was organized at ARS, Adilabad premises towards distribution of newly developed Pigeonpea variety Warangal Kandi-1 (WRgE-97) seed material to the Tribal farmers belongs to Gudihatnoor, Indravelli & Utnoor Mandals. 300 kg seed was distributed to 100 selected farmers from 7 tribal villages. During the interaction, Dr. Sreedhar Chauhan, PI, AICRPDA (VC) and Dr. V. Thirumala Rao, Sr. Scientist (Pl. Br.) & PS (Cotton) i/c explained about the management aspects of Soybean and Cotton crops besides Pigeonpea particularly field activities to be taken up during early stages. Farmers (41) belongs to Borujguda, Nizamguda & Pittabongaram (Indravelli mandal); Godurguda (Gudihatnoor); Naddamguda, Wadoni, Chandori & Yenka villages (Utnoor mandal) were took participated. Sri K. Sridhar & Sri M. Sunil, Facilitators, ICAR-CRIDA is also participated.