Kisan Club

Naujawan Kisan Club, Ghattianwali Bodla & Alliana

Naujawan Kisan Club was registered during 2006-07 under the name Naujawan Kisan Club Ghattianwali Bodla & Alliana. The farmer member of this Club cooperated very well with the KVK scientists for successfully conducting FLDs on cotton by adopting PAU recommendations. The project on IPM stretegies against mealy bug was implemented in collaboration with this club in the villages Alliana, Ghattian wali jattan, Jandwala kharta, Korian wali, Kandhwala and Tahliwala Jattan. Awareness campaigns for the eradication of mealy bug were also conducted in the above said viilages. Two kisan melas on cotton with the help of this club have already been organized during the year 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 for the popularization of recent technologies for cotton production. About 5500 farmers of the area participated in these melas and got benefitted with the new innovations/ technologies in the area of cotton production particularly for effective management of mealy bug, thereby mitigating this emerging new & highly destructive pest problem.