Lt Governor addresses the 25th Foundation Day celebration of SKUAST-Jammu
JAMMU, SEP20: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha addressed the 25th Foundation Day celebration of SKUAST-Jammu at Baba Jitto Auditorium, today.
In his address, the Lt Governor congratulated the Vice Chancellor, faculty members and students on the occasion.
He highlighted the reforms introduced in 2020 to revamp SKUAST-Jammu to meet modern workforce requirements in Agriculture & Allied Sectors, to contribute in entrepreneurship-driven research and to develop strong inter-disciplinary ecosystem.
In last three years, the University has achieved several milestones. It has focused on designing viable and sustainable innovation ecosystem in Agriculture & Allied domain, along with three new faculties in Agricultural Engineering, Dairy Technology and Horticulture & Forestry, to stimulate the synergies between latest technologies, skills and research for rapid structural changes in farming, he said.
“Agriculture is the most important and sensitive sector for economy and vital to survival of humanity. To tackle wide range of impacts on people’s lives due to diverse challenges worldwide, Agriculture Universities must be connected to global nervous system to quickly adopt the latest knowledge,” the Lt Governor.
At SKUAST Jammu, the Lt Governor shared the policy reforms and technological interventions made in the last few years to rejuvenate the Agriculture and allied sectors.
Holistic Agriculture Development Program (HADP) has brought a culture change in farming, agriculture innovation, to acquire and apply knowledge. It has stimulated engagement among change agents to establish full-fledged agri-business incubation centre for new startups, the Lt Governor said.
He said the knowledge-research capital of SKUAST should be tapped to further strengthen the 29 projects being implemented under HADP, to develop mechanism to acquire tools to solve tomorrow’s problems for ensuring food security, nutrition and sustainable management of natural resources.
