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This year’s edition of the five-day national horticulture fair being organized by the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) will be begin at the Institute’s Hessarghatta campus on the outskirts of Bengaluru city from Monday.
The country’s premier horticulture fair, which is being held both in physical and virtual formats for the first time, will showcase cutting edge technologies, crop varieties, pest and disease management practices and processing methods among others.
The fair, which is being held under the theme ‘For start-up and stand-up India’ aims to increase farmers’ incomes by turning horticulture into a business enterprise especially in the wake of the recent trend of educated youth taking to farming.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 6 (ANI): Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) on Friday said that it is organising five days National Horticulture Fair (NHF) 2021 from February 8 to February 12 at the IIHR campus situated in Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru.
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‘State is one of the front runners in horticultural produce’
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Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Deputy Chief Minister Govind M. Karjol inaugurating a Horticulture Mela at Bagalkot, virtually in Bengaluru on Saturday.
‘State is one of the front runners in horticultural produce’
Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday said that the State government had taken a slew of measures for doubling farmers’ income by 2022 as envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking after the virtual inauguration of a Horticulture Mela of the University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Mr. Yediyurappa said Mr. Modi recently flagged off the 100th run of the Kisan Rail and the train service would bring a major change in the farm sector. It would increase the strength of the country’s cold supply chain, he said.