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INNOVATION AND SUCCESS STORIES

BEST KVK AWARD BY OUTLOOK GROUP

Swami Bhaveshananda, Secretary and Dr. Ajeet Kumar Singh, Sr. Scientist of Divyayan KVK receiving the
Award from Sri Narendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Govt. of India

ivyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra has once again been awarded as the best KVK(Krishi Vigyan Kendra)
of the country by the famous Outlook Group on 24th February, 2020, in the ICAR, NASC Complex,
DNew Delhi out of 700+ KVKs in the country. The award was given on the occasion of ‘Outlook
Agriculture Enclave’ organized by Outlook Group
The award( Memento only) was received from Sri Narendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Minister of Agriculture
and Farmer Welfare, Govt. of India in the gracious presence of Hon’ble Agriculture Ministers of three states
viz. Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Hariyana. The selection at the zonal level was done by the ICAR
and at the national level by the jury of the Award included Sri Sanjay Agarwal, IAS, Secretary, Ministry
of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, GOI, Dr. T Haqu, Ex-Chairman, Commission for Agriculture Cost and
Prices; Sri Sandeep Nayak, Managing Director, National Corporation for Cooperative Development; Sri. R.
S. Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujrat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd; Dr. A. K. Singh, Dy. Director
General, ICAR, New Delhi; Sri Harveer Singh, Editor, Outlook.
The award was given on the basis of exemplary and outstanding work done by Divyayan KVK in the field
of
1. Organic cultivation (Two Cluster of Villages in Angara Block have been developed as Organic Cluster
and Development of Dhurleta Village as the First Organic village of Jharkhand).
2. Promotion of indigenous scented rice variety (Indigenous scented variety of Jharkhand like Bhutku,
Tulsi Mukul etc. now being cultivated organically by around 800 farmers of Ranchi and its adjoining

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