Dr. Watimongla Jamir with Sameti officials during the training programme at Medziphema in Dimapur.
Dimapur, Nov. 2 (EMN): The State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (Sameti), Medziphema organised a two-day online training programme on “Entrepreneurship Development through post-harvest management and value addition of horticultural crops” for Atma functionaries from October 29 to the 30th.
The training programme was aimed to train Atma field functionaries at creating awareness and understanding about the importance of post-harvest care and value addition to reduce losses after harvest and increase food availability throughout the year thereby providing food and nutritional securities. The training also highlighted how appropriate post-harvest management and processing can utilise unmarketable produce and processing waste for a gainful purpose besides generating employment and rural industrialization, an update stated.
Resource persons for the training were Dr. Gracely I Yepthomi, assistant professor and Dr. Sentirenla Jamir, assistant professor from department of Horticulture, NU: SASRD, Medziphema.
Topics on value addition of horticultural crops – importance of value addition, home-scale value addition on fruits and vegetables, pickle preparation, green tea, canning of fruits and vegetables, value addition in flowers; and entrepreneurship development through post-harvest management – introduction to post-harvest technology, entrepreneurial development, schemes available for entrepreneurial development and lucrative enterprises under post-harvest technology were covered.
Video clips of some successful entrepreneurs based on post-harvest management and e-marketing were shown to the participants.
