July 22, Thimphu: The Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, today received a new Director General for Agriculture Department and offered Trashi Khadhar to Director General of Livestock Department. The Agriculture DG was transferred from the Finance Ministry while Livestock DG was recently promoted.
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RNR-RDC Jakar has been conducting the Winter Wheat Varietal Improvement Program in collaboration with RNR-RDC Bajo (Wheat Coordinating Center) and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) with the aim to identify potential improved varieties in order to broaden the genetic base in the winter wheat ecosystem; and to provide variety choice to the high altitude farmers. Two lines from Nepal (NL 1064 and WK 1204) and one (Gumasokha Ka) originally from Mexico but released recently by RDC Bajo were evaluated under farmers’ management conditions.
A field day was organized at Tang and Chumey mainly to jointly assess the performances of these new varieties, gather farmers’ feedbacks and plan future course of actions. Twenty farmers from each site participated actively during the Participatory Varietal Selection process.
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The official email ID of Agriculture Machinery Centre, Paro (krtamc@moaf.gov.bt ) is now changed to (amc@moaf.gov.bt). Therefore, all concerned stakeholders may kindly note the changes and communicate to the latest email ID.
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July 14, Thimphu: A project titled, ‘Integrated Horticulture Promotion Project in the west central region (IHPP)’ to promote horticulture farming will be in place soon with a technical assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
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