{"id":3760,"date":"2022-03-11T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2022-06-01T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:28:32","slug":"workshop-on-soil-fertility-and-water-management-in-organic-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on \u201cSoil Fertility and Water Management in Organic Farming\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A workshop on \u201cSoil Fertility and Water Management in Organic Farming\u201d was conducted on in the auditorium of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ariviyal Nagar, Kilinochchi on the 11th<\/sup> of March, 2022 from 8.30 am to 4.15 pm.  The registration for participants was started at 8.30 am and fifty farmers from the northern province were confirmed their participation. Then workshop inaugural address was delivered by Project Coordinator\/ AHEAD operation, Dr. K.Pakeerathan. Thereafter opening remarks about the importance of this workshop was given by Prof. (Mrs). Nalina Gnanavelrajah, Act. Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna. This workshop was organized under the AHEAD programme (AHEAD\/RA2\/ELTAELSE\/JFN\/FAG\/OVAA 08\/ WS4).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The session one of the workshops was conducted by the resource person Prof. (Mrs). Nalina Gnanavelrajah Professor in Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna on \u201chow to prepare our own compost and organic fertilizers\u201d. Farmers actively participated in this session with group discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second session of the workshop on \u201cEfficient field practices for crop irrigation\u201d was conducted jointly by Dr. N. Kannan, Head\/Agricultural Engineering and Dr. P. Alvappillai, Retired Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Engineering. After providing technical aspects related to best irrigation practices in the workshop, farmers were able to realize about the importance of water conservation for sustainable agriculture, harmful effects of poor irrigation practices and new techniques that are associated with the best irrigation practices. Discussion sessions were followed by a practical field demonstration with the help of the Farm Manager, Mr.S. Sritharan, in order to make the farmers aware of the best field irrigation practices available in the Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the workshop participants gave the feed-back as summary. Key points of the feed backs are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a.         They are confident enough to prepare their own compost<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The gained the knowledge on how to water effectively <\/p>\n\n\n\n

c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They will apply new skills learned to sort out the currently facing technical problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A workshop on \u201cSoil Fertility and Water Management in Organic Farming\u201d was conducted on in the auditorium of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ariviyal Nagar, Kilinochchi on the 11th of March, 2022 from 8.30 am to 4.15 pm.  The registration for participants was started at 8.30 am and fifty farmers from the northern province were confirmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}