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PAU organizes Parthenium Awareness Week
Babushahi Bureau
Ludhiana, August 27, 2024: The Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), organized Parthenium awareness week under the aegis of ICAR-DWR, Jabalpur. Dr MS Bhullar, Director of Extension Education; Dr Hari Ram, Head, Department of Agronomy; Dr Simerjeet Kaur, Principal Agronomist; Dr Tarundeep Kaur, Principal Agronomist; Dr Pervinder Kaur, Chemist (Residue); Dr Jasvir Singh Gill, Agronomist; and Dr Manpreet Singh, Agronomist from the Department of Agronomy, participated in these programmes.
The lecture was given to NCC cadets and control measures were demonstrated. After detailed deliberations on Parthenium, an eradication campaign was also launched at sites infested with this weed.
Lectures on Parthenium and its management were also delivered to graduate and postgraduate students, highlighting the harmful effects of Parthenium on human health and animals and their control measures. Further, faculty, field staff and students of the Department of Agronomy manually uprooted Parthenium from different places inside the University campus.
It may be mentioned that Village Mansuran, adopted in 2016, was regularly monitored throughout the year and programme was organized to check and uproot any new flushes of Parthenium.
Dr Bhullar visited the village and applauded the efforts of Sardar Harnek Singh Grewal, Bahadur Singh, Raj Singh and whole village for maintaining a Parthenium free village.