Department of Agril. Economics, COA, JAU, Junagadh has organized Entrepreneurship Skill Development Training under IDP during May 11-12, 2019.
The Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh has organized a two-day Entrepreneurship Skill Development Training Programme on the topic: “Processing and Value Addition of High Value Crops” during 11th - 12th May, 2019 for the students to B. Sc. Agriculture under the Institutional Development Plan of NAHEP, ICAR sponsored by the World Bank. The programme consisted of lectures related to processing, value addition and export prospects in agricultural sector. Besides, exposure visits were also arranged for the students to various ginning, oil extraction and spinning units down the cotton value chain and other agro-industrial units in and around Jamnagar so as to provide the students hands-on training on the prospects in agro-processing and value addition. The training programme was co-ordinated by Dr. H. M. Gajipara, Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, CoA, JAU, Junagadh. Dr. V.D. Tarpara, Dr. S. B. Vekariya, Dr. B. Swaminathan and Pr. V. L. Gondaliya served as the co-organizing secretaries of the training programme. The programme was organized under the guidance of Dr. (Col.) A. R. Pathak, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor; Dr. V. P. Chovatia, Director of Research and Principal Investigator; and Dr. B. K. Sagarka, Principal and Co-Principal Investigator, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh.