The year 2015 has been fruitful one with so many memories to
cherish. It has also taught many lessons through my challenging bygone days. The surrounding around has made me strong enough to be bold and to face
obstacles in life.
Among all, one of the remarkable events was in February;
attending convocation with the friends at Thimphu after
completion of Diploma in Agriculture representing College of Natural Resources.
It’s one of the golden opportunities to attend and receive the certificates of
completion of course from His Majesty.
The programme arranged by the Dzongkhag was fascinating with
different cultural programme by the students, civil servants, business
individuals and farmers from different geog were shown. It’s the good
opportunity where participants are able to show their talents in dancing after
long run in their busy daily schedule. Grasping the opportunity to participate
in cultural programme after college days was refreshing indeed.
Being
under Horticulture sector, most of the bygone days were spent in the field
conducting and monitoring trails on vegetables& fruits and recording data
for analysis.
Furthermore, December month has been tiring and busiest one
moving from one geog to another under Pemagatshel and Mongar Dzongkhag in
delivering technical support to the interested farmers in development of
orchard in their farm. Farmers were supported through different programs like
Citrus focused village, Pear village, Sub-tropical mixed fruit orchard and
systematic demo orchard initiated by the centre.
My team begin with site verification followed by layout and
training which includes pit digging demonstration and orchard management
practices starting from Pangthang village under Chhimoong geog to Laneri and
Durungri under Dungmaed geog in P/gatshel followed by Yangbari village under
Gongdue geog in monger and back to Rinchenthang under Chhokhorling geog
followed by Nanong geog under Pemagatshel Dzongkhag. Farmers were briefed on
the importance of developing orchards in their farm and they were given
training on orchard management practices mainly to create awareness and gain
knowledge on importance of maintaining a good orchard in their farm. Completing
layout for 131 farmers will be one
of the greatest achievements in the year supporting rural farmers through
research centre.
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| RDC-Wengkhar in action,11 Nov 2015 |
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| Pit digging demonstration after layout |
