Sunday, February 08, 2009

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers

8 Feb 2009, 0538 hrs IST, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, TNN
PATNA: Farmers in Bihar would soon have their first brush with community radio. To be set up under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Project of Union ministry of agriculture, the community radio would air programmes catering to the needs of the farming community. Apart from airing informative programmes about the latest farming practices and the precaution the farmers should take to safeguard their standing crops, programmes based on lives of successful farmers of a given area would also be aired. Then, the community radio would provide localised weather reports. In the first phase, three such community radio stations would come up at Krishi Vikas Kendra (KVK) Birauli in Samastipur, KVK Barh in Patna and KVK Jamui.

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