CPCRI centenary fete gets off today - march 12

CPCRI centenary fete gets off today - march 12

Mangalore Today News Network

Kasaragod, March 12, 2016 : The centenary celebrations of  CPCRI - Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod, will be held on the CPCRI campus on March 12 , saturday,  CPCRI Director Dr P Chowdappa said.

He said a centenary coconut park will be developed near the Kendriya Vidyalaya playground with 100 coconut seedlings of 18 varieties planted by 100 farmers hailing from different regions of the country to mark the occasion.

ICAR - Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Deputy Director General (Horticultural Sciences) Dr N K Krishnakumar will inaugurate the programme. CAMPCO President S R Sathishchandra will deliver the keynote address. CAMPCO former president Konkodi Padmanabha will be the guest of honour. Directors from the eight different sister institutes of ICAR, officials from Kerala Gramin Bank, Nabard, Kerala Agricultural University and Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala, also will take part in the programme, he added.

More than 4,00 farmers will take part in the Kisan Mela organised as part of the programme. Agriculture scientists from 96 countries where coconut, arecanut, cocoa are grown will attend the meet. A pictorial book ’CPCRI-A Century of Service to the Nation’ and another on 150 outreach-cum-training programmes organised by the CPCRI during the centenary year --- CPCRI-A Century of Service to the Nation-Empowering Stakeholders --- will be released. They will also be available on CPCRI website --- www.cpcri.gov.in. A special chocolate, developed for the first time out of coconut sugar in collaboration with two organic farming products ’Kalpa Organic Gold’ and ’Kalpa Soil Care’ will be released. A painting of P S Punichittaya’s impressions on the 100 years journey of CPCRI and the centenary logo will be unveiled on the occasion.