Sangareddy: The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) of Medak district, established to fill the gaps in agriculture technology at field level will be conducting its first agricultural exhibition here on 29 of this month. All the five related departments like the Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Sericulture, Horticulture and Cane development would participate in the show aimed at creating technical awareness among farmers.

ATMA's governing body, chaired by the district Collector, which met on the 15 of this month, decided to organise the exhibition.

Committees formed

Speaking to The Hindu , Project Director of Atma Ch. Ramreddy said that the formation various committees under the Centrally supported project had been completed. The ATMA management committee, block-level farm information and advisory centre, farmer advisory committees and block technical committees had been formed.

However, due to shortage of time, farmer interest groups that should consist of seven to eight farmers from each village could not be formed and instead, each of the department had been asked to nominate members. Mr. Ramreddy also said that Rs. 7.72 lakhs has been released for the block-level technical committees to organise demonstration and training camps for the farmers.

Exposure visits

In Medak, ATMA has so far organised three exposure visits for farmers. A selected group of 17 farmers have been sent to Delhi to attend the `krishi expo' there and a visit to the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) at Pusa.

Two more groups have been sent to Hyderabad and Surat. With the farmers showing interest in latest agricultural inputs and animal husbandry, the ATMA is planning to send another group to Nagpur for some more field studies.

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