Training cum exposure visit of progressive farmers to Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute, Jorhat, Assam

The BDU WKH on the 26th of June, 2013 had sent a team of progressive farmers to the Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute in Jorhat. The aim of the Exposure Visit is to enable the farmers to learn new technologies evolved at the Central MugaEri Research & Training Institute in various aspects of Mugaculture viz. techniques of propagation and maintenance of food-plants, silkworm rearing, seed production and production of silk and in turn apply those technologies for better performance in their sericulture activities in order to raise their income from sericulture and simultaneously enhance their standard of living.

Introduction of newly evolved technologies from time to time to farmers is of utmost importance and to incorporate otherwise replace older methods by new ones to bring about a more profitable way of earning their livelihood from sericulture.