Dr. Trilochan Mohaptra

Dr. Trilochan Mohaptra, Secretary, DARE and DG, ICAR visited GSFRED Research and Education Centre along with three Assistant Director Generals of ICAR (Dr. S.K. Chaudhary, Dr. S.P. Kimothi, Dr. V.P. Chahal) and Director, CSSRI, Karnal, Dr. P. C. Sharma. Chairman of GSFRED, Dr. Gurbachan Singh welcomed the DG and other dignitaries and showed various experiments and demonstrations established at the farm for linking agricultural science to society such as integrated farming system model for doubling farmers income, diversication option for rice, rice residue management for manure production, evaluation of rice and wheat varieties for resources use efficiency and resilience to weather and climate and fruit trees based agroforestry planted at the farm. Dr. Mohapatra appreciated GSF efforts in upscaling and communicating agricultural science and technologies to the farmers, unemployed youth and schools tudentsforskill and entrepreneurship development. FirstNewsletter of theFoundationwasalsoreleasedbytheSecretary,DARE and DG, ICAR.

Dr. N.T. Singh, FNA, USA

Dr. Nirmal Tej Singh, Former Director, CSSRI, Karnal and Central Agricultural Research Institute, Portblair visited GSF Research and Education Centre on 15 Dec, 2018. Chairman GSF showed various experiments and demonstration established at the farm for creating awareness and linking agricultural science to society to the visiting dignitary. Dr. Singh appreciated the efforts of GSF for establishing need of the our experiments and demonstrations for reducing cost of cultivation, enhancing farmers income and conservation of natural resources. Dr. N.T.Singh currently resides in Sacramento, USA and one of the top most soil scientist in the world.

Dr. P. C. Sharma

On 28 October forenoon, Dr. P. C. Sharma, Director, CSSRI visited GSF Research Farm to see the performance of CSR 30 and CSR 43 varieties of rice developed by his institute and other experiments established at the farm. Later, in the afternoon, Chairman and others members of GSFRED met at the farm and discussed future expansion plans of GSFRED.

Religious Head Sant Kashmir Singh Ji

Baba Kashmir Singh Ji along with his disciples visited GSF Research and Education Centre on 13 December, 2018. Dr. Gurbachan Singh showed various research and education programmes and activities of the Foundation to the visiting religious personality of the area. Sant Kashmir Singh Ji took keen interest in experiments and demonstrations on organic farming; conversion of waste to wealth; integrated farming model and cultivation of traditional crops like gram, lentil, mustard, rajmah, maize etc. as substitution option for water guzzling rice-wheat cropping system.

CSSRI, Scientists

Scientists from Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal paid a visit to GSF Research and Education Centre on 14 December, 2018. The visiting scientists had detailed discussion on the present status of the soil which was reclaimed with the use of gypsum several years back. The discussion focused on layer wise characteristics of the soil in a prole dug out up to 180 cm depth. The scientists were astonished to know that only surface soil shows the characteristics of a normal soil where as sub surface layers still have very high pH and presence of calcium carbonate granules. The chairman also showed other experiments to the visiting scientists for doubling farmers income.

Dr. R.S. Gandhi, Assistant Director General, Animal Sciences, ICAR

Dr. R. S. Gandhi, ADG, ICAR visited the centre on 6 November, 2018. He was highly appreciative of GSF efforts in establishing an integrated farming system model for food, nutrition, livelihood and environment security of small and marginal farmers.