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Technology Transfer Activities
BSRI also performs some activities pertaining to transfer of technologies. It has training programmes for trainers from sugar mills, DAE and for advanced farmers; demonstration programme of matured technologies; programme for organizing field-days, farmers rally, seminar, workshop, group discussion and publications in the form of annual report, journal, leaflets, booklets etc. Scientists attend 'Agricultural Technical Committee (ATC)' meetings organized by DAE in different regions. The library is the excellent centre of sugarcane-related information in the country. BSRI scientists promptly visit any problem area and suggest remedies as and when required.
The institute has so far organized 451 training courses and offered training to :
| Extension officers of BSFIC |
432 |
| Extension officers of DAE |
992 |
| Sub-Assistant Agriculture Officer of DAE |
244 |
| Cane Development Assistants of BSFIC |
697 |
| Sugarcane farmers of Sugar mills zone |
8156 |
| Sugarcane farmers of gur zone |
2372 |
The institute has prepared :
- Six slide-serieses on "modern sugarcane production technologies".
- A manual on "Improved cane cultivation practices".
- A video film on "Transplanted Sugarcane" for SAARC countries.
A great success has been achieved in "Sugarcane based farming systems research and development".
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