Bengaluru: National Horticulture Fair to encourage start-ups

BENGALURU: Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)- Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) will be organizing five days National Horticulture Fair (NHF) starting from February 8 to 12 at IIHR campus situated in Hesaraghatta.

Under the slogan of 'Horticulture for Start-Up and Stand-Up India', NHF will be held. For the first time IIHR has organized both online and offline events due to Covid-19 pandemic.

It is said that five days' events will be accessible to all through online and offline. "Due to Covid pandemic, physical entry of the participants will be restricted to 30,000.

During physical participation, Covid pandemic protocol will be followed. Farmers from across the Country can participate in the event online. Both virtual and physical Horticulture fair will emphasize farmers to get actively involved and participate in this five days event and encourage them to take Horticulture as entrepreneurship" IIHR Director Dr. M.R. Dinesh.

"Krishi Vignana Kendra's across the country will facilitate the farmers to participate in virtual fairs. Farmers can go to nearby KVKs, after registering their names, they can participate in five days virtual NHF. All 721 KVK's, 11 ATARIs will arrange the farmers to attend virtual NHF.

211 live demonstrations will be showcased at NHF. Even IIHR has facilitated the farmers to interact with the scientists of IIHR online. Interaction with scientists will help the farmers to get information on crop related issues." M.R. Dinesh further explained.

According to the reports, virtual preparations have been made across the country to webcast the programme in the premises of KVK/FPO/ SSIAST centers, agricultural training centers of respective state governments.

Therefore,interested farmers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders are requested to register in theNHF 2021 website https://nhf2021.iihr.res.in and participate in the programme through virtual mode.