REASI: The Awareness programme for educated youth was held at Degree college Dharmari today to attract the College youth towards agripreneurship.

The programme was organised as per the instructions of Directors Agriculture, Ram Savak and guidance of District Nodal officer/ Chief Agriculture officer Reasi, Harbans Singh.

The programme was aimed at educating the rural youth to come forward and adopt agriculture as a full time/part-time profession for remunerative returns. The participants were motivated by experts to become job providers instead of job seekers by adopting any project under Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP) including Agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, sheep husbandry, fishers and other allied activity.

Awareness regarding Kisan sathi and Daksh Kisan was also provided to the participants.

Technical session was conducted by Vikas Sharma (SMS Dharmari), Anil Thakur, AEO Matlote, Harmeet Singh, AEA Budhun in the presence of the Sub Divisional Agriculture officer, S. Dalbir Singh, Principal, Dr Preetpal Kaur and SMS, Susheel Suri along with other college staff.

Moderators, Vikas Suri, Pankaj Sharma and other officials of the departments besides a large number of students were present. The programme was a great success with the full cooperation of college faculty and staff besides enthusiastic participation of students.