Dr. Vinod Kumar Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA has attended the Action Plan Meeting, 2025 for ATARI, Zone-IV, Patna as Chief Guest. During his inaugural address Dr Singh stressed on bringing resilience in agriculture using farmer friendly location specific technologies. He has stressed the need of enhancing early warning system and educating the farmers about it. He further suggested that in the next phase of NICRA, we have to educate students, farmers and more precisely upscale the most impactful climate resilient technologies of the region.

The meeting was also attended by Dr. P.K. Pankaj, Principal Scientist (LPM) who suggested tips for climate resilient animal husbandry. The action plan meeting was also attended by Dr. Anjani Kumar, Director, ATARI, Zone-IV, Patna and Dr. Mayank Rai, Director Extension, RPCAU, Pusa.