Training to Farmers upon Dry Farming

25 January 2024, Chakai (Jamui, Bihar): Under SBI Gram Saksham project by NBJK with support of SBI Foundation, a farmers training program was organized on 23rd January at Kashjor village of Chakai block under Jamui district in Bihar. Total 55 farmers from three villages like Sone, Baljori and Kashjor have participated in this training.

Mr. Dev Narayan Singh was the resource person for this training. He is a progressive farmer of repute in this region and a “Krishi Bhushan” awardee by the government. During the training, Mr. Singh has discussed about scientific farming methods for different crops. Also he cleared various doubts from the farmers regarding cultivation process, safety of the crops and high yield. He described about dry farming in underutilized barren land for income enhancement.

Mr. S. K. Yajal (Project Manager, SBI Gram Saksham) has informed that soon we will arrange three more training camps in Chakai and Deoghar blocks within the month of January.

NBJK runs SBI Gram Saksham project in 20 villages of Chakai and Deoghar blocks of Jamui as well as Deoghar districts in Bihar and Jharkhand. It’s an innovative and participatory intervention with farmers to make villages self-sustainable through water conservation initiatives, farm equipments support, leverage on the government/institutional schemes, improvement in agriculture productivity and farmers’ income.