ICAR-DIRECTORATE OF FLORICULTURAL RESEARCH

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE CAMPUS

SHIVAJINAGAR, PUNE-411005

Report on Celebration of Agricultural Education Day

The ICAR- Directorate of Floricultural Research, College of Agriculture Campus,

Shivajinagar Pune celebrated Agriculture Education Day on 03rd December

2017 at Hadapsar Research Farm of the Institute. Students of K K Ghule

Vidyalaya, Manjri, Pune were invited to the ICAR-DFR Research farm. More

than 70 students of IX, XI and XII standard along with teachers participated in

the Event. An orientation programme followed by visit to experimental fields

of ICAR-DFR was conducted for these students.

Dr. D. V. S. Raju welcomed the students and teachers for this event. Dr. P.

Naveen Kumar, Principal Scientist, ICAR-DFR, Pune appraised students about

the importance of floriculture, organizational set up of ICAR as well as DFR and

also its role in research, education and development activities. He also

informed about the role of ICAR-DFR.

Dr. K V Prasad, Director, ICAR-DFR, Pune in his address explained about the

significance of Agricultural Education Day. He emphasized the importance of

agriculture and floriculture in day-to-day life of human beings. Importance of

agricultural science and education to the state and country were briefly

explained to the students by him. He also briefed about the NARS and

motivated the students to put in their best efforts in shaping their career. He

explained the career path, academic requirements different options in

agriculture, veterinary, dairy, horticulture and fishery specialization available,

employment potential and encouraged the students to seriously consider

agriculture as their first choice of their career. The event resulted in creating

awareness about the career avenues in agricultural science among the

participated students. After the awareness programme, the scientists along

with the teachers took them to the field to expose the students to different

flower crops of the season like chrysanthemum, tuberose, China aster, annuals

and explained about their uses, cultural practices and different varieties. The

chrysanthemum varieties were in full bloom and the students were able to

witness more than 100 varieties of chrysanthemum. The students interacted

with the scientists about varieties, botany, growing techniques and other

aspects.