seminar on Bio-organic preparations

The P.G. Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology of St. Thomas College organized a seminar on “Bio-organic preparations development in farmer’s field for sustainable agriculture in association with MoU Partner Farmlabs, Pune. The objective of this webinar was to make students providing knowledge of organic farming and preparation of Biofertilizer.

Dr. Santosh Chavan, Director, Farmlab Laboratory, Pune was delivered a seminar on Bio-organic preparations.

He told in his seminar that chemical fertilizers are toxic to environment and health. In his talk he gave a good knowledge about different methods for production of Bio-organic preparations. He also discussed the journey of farmer field from last 3 years. He told his experiences regarding preparation of biofertilizers from starting till date. In the seminar Dr. Santosh thanked to government for providing financial assistance and support for Bio-organic preparations.

The principal Dr. M.G. Roymon congratulated all staff members and said that the St. Thomas College regularly organized this type of programme for beneficial to students.

This event was supervised by Dr. V. Shanthi, Dr. Ujjwala Supe, Dr. Shubha Diwan and Mrs. Ekta Saxena, Faculties of Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology.

This Programme was conducted by Dr. Anubhuti Jha, Assistant professor, Department of Biotechnology, St. Thomas College and vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Katha Sanyal, Post graduate student of the Department.