Link for the webinar on Weedicide-free Farming: Science, Practices and Policies which will start today on 25th Sep at 3:30 pm /आज २५ सितम्बर दोपहर ३.३० बजे के सत्र खरपतवारनाशक जहर से मुक्त खेती: विज्ञान, पद्धतियाँ और नीतियाँ के लिए लिंक

[Rohit Parakh]

Link for the webinar on Weedicide-free Farming: Science, Practices and Policies which will start today on 25th Sep at 3:30 pm
आज २५ सितम्बर दोपहर ३.३० बजे के सत्र खरपतवारनाशक जहर से मुक्त खेती: विज्ञान, पद्धतियाँ और नीतियाँ के लिए लिंक  

You can also follow this webinar on youtube through/आप यूट्यूब पर सत्र में  इस लिंक के द्वारा जुड़ सकते हैं https://youtu.be/60Lw-4YVNFw   

And on Facebook through/ आप फसेबूक पर सत्र में इस लिंक के द्वारा जुड़ सकते हैं -  https://www.facebook.com/AshaKisanSwaraj/posts/4675305152487526

Slides from the speakers are being uploaded here - http://www.kisanswaraj.in/?p=2607

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 11:33, Rohit Parakh <rohit...@gmail.com> wrote:

You are invited to join a national webinar on Weedicide-free Farming: Science, Practices and Policies

 

 Date: 25th September (Friday), 2020

 Time: 3.30 pm India Time (UTC +5.30)

Register at :

http://bit.ly/3icpG9J

Zoom Meeting ID: 822 4535 1171

Pass Code: 388458

Abstract:

Chemical intensive farming coupled with reducing crop-biodiversity has led to a situation, where weeds are considered as a serious problem in Indian agriculture. So called scientific intervention for weed management mostly focussed on recommending chemical weedicides. Many farmers also now think that spraying toxic weedicides is the most practical solution ignoring facts about various uses of weeds and ecological and health related risks of weedicides. 

ASHA Kisan Swaraj, a nation-wide network of volunteers working for promotion of agroecology based farming systems will present some farm level experiences to make participants understand the science and practices related to weed management and need of policy interventions.

We will have a scientist and 9 other speakers (mostly practising farmers) from different agro-ecological zones of India with experience in different crops as speakers for this webinar.

The presentations will be both in English, Hindi and a couple of other Indian languages. There will be translations (of the gist) following each presentation.

Organizers invite comments and questions during the registration as well as during the programme.

You can also join webinar through 

Youtube - through https://youtu.be/60Lw-4YVNFw where you can set a reminder too

Facebook - through https://www.facebook.com/events/339200084099365/

Event post on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ASHAKisanSwaraj/status/1307988263634956288

The relevance of this webinar also comes to highlight alternatives to glyphosate - https://youtu.be/M_5Mq3oWWQw on whose lessons for India a webinar was conducted last week and on whose restriction draft notifications deadline exists for response by 4th Oct.

Govt draft notification on glyphosate the last date for which has been extended to 4th Oct https://tinyurl.com/GlyphosateDraft  

ASHA response on glyphosate restriction notification is here  - https://tinyurl.com/GlyphosateInput 

Please send your own submissions to Govt too at jspp...@gov.in and cat...@ias.nic.in!