CoE for Mango and Vegetables to Be Set up at Odisha’s Jajpur Dist

Jajpur/ New Delhi: A Center of Excellence (CoE) for mango and vegetables under the Indo-Israel Action Plan will be set up at Panikoili in the Jajpur district of Odisha, said the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare on Friday.

The vision of CoE is to generate knowledge in nursery management, cultivation practices, production of high quality and large quantity of planting material of mango and vegetable crops, the Ministry said.

The Centre will also focus on demonstration of new varieties, Israeli Agro technology in irrigation, fertigation & Plant protection technologies along with precision agriculture and post-harvest management technology. The Centre will prepare a training model based on the focused areas such as irrigation, fertigation, nursery, canopy and value chain for the benefit of farmers, it said.

Under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), CoEs are being established in various States through Bilateral Cooperation or Research Institutes. These CoEs serve as demonstration and training centres for latest technologies in the field of horticulture, it added.