UAS-B Alumni to impart digital training to urban dwellers

Urban dwellers will get a chance to join with the University of Agricultural Sciences-Bengaluru because the UAS-B Alumni Association is organising short-term digital training and specialised talks on a variety of topics for individuals from urban and peri-urban areas.

The Alumni Association, which includes consultants from agriculture and allied sectors, will provide digital training in 22 topics starting from balanced diet for wholesome residing to wine-making and from administration of indoor crops to Bonsai.

The wide selection of topics for training embrace significance of medicinal crops, significance of vegetables and fruit in human eating regimen, handmade bakery merchandise, upkeep of panorama backyard, mushroom cultivation, kitchen backyard, bee conserving, gulkan-making and administration of pets. Preservation of vegetables and fruit, rat and family pest administration, caring of coconut bushes in house backyard, millets and their makes use of for a wholesome life are additionally among the many topics.

According to Association President Dr. K. Narayana Gowda, any individual can register himself for this course, which is being provided freed from value. The contributors will get a certificates from the Association.

They have to register by means of a Google kind (https://forms.gle/cXtQH825ZN11hC1X6) and point out their topic of desire. The Association will inform them concerning the training schedule and their assembly ID, he mentioned.

Course administrators Dr. P.K. Basavaraj (9449152884) and Dr. Saralakumari (9611567094) might be contacted for clarifications.

Dr. Gowda informed The Puucho that the Association had determined to significantly give attention to urban dwellers because the college had at all times been reaching out to farmers by means of its frontal organisations like Krishi Vigyan Kendras and in depth community of specialists. “But for an occasional workshop or talk on urban gardening, we have not shared our expertise with urban dwellers. However, a large number of urban dwellers too are interested in some of our research subjects. Hence we decided to reach out to them,” he says, whereas mentioning that specialists in several fields would deal with the programs.

In the second section of the digital training, the Association is pondering of utilising the companies of ultimate yr college students from associated topics within the UAS-B or its graduates to bodily attain out to contributors by way of supplying seeds or some other materials required.

“For example, if somebody wants to grow mushrooms, we are thinking of getting our students and graduates to supply them at the prescribed or a nominal rate so that urban dwellers can actually benefit from our technologies,” he mentioned.

Interestingly, 58% of individuals, who’ve registered for the programs, have opted for significance of medicinal crops adopted by kitchen gardening (52.3%), indoor crops’ upkeep and balanced diet for wholesome life (each 50.7%). Twenty per cent have opted for administration of pets.