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NER - Research & Development and

Societal Outreach Strawberry cultivation with
improved Agrotechnology in
Meghalaya
Twinning R&D programme Agriculture Biotechnology • 50 demonstrative units at farmer’s
• 200 Research Collaborations Network Programme "eld in Khasi, Jaintia and Garo Hills,
established with Institutes outside • Phytopharmaceutical Mission in 350 bene"ciary farmers to be trained
NER NER • Tissue-cultured cut #ower orchid
• 90 papers published • Animal Disease Diagnostic & production for and to end capacity
• 7 Patents "led Management Consortium building
• 15 Research leads generated • MDR-Tuberculosis consortium • 50 villages of Assam and Meghalaya
• Natural History Museum at Mizoram bene"tted
• 3,500 farmer’s/ entrepreneurs trained

Technologies transferred
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Jorhat
• $ree e%cient Biofertilizer
formulations transferred to
local "rms & startups
• Tonnes of biofertilizer
produced by these "rms and #1YearOfModi2
marketed in Assam, Manipur,
Nagaland and West Bengal
• Over 1,000 farmers bene"tted

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