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The Rural Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation (Himalica) programme has been implementing a pilot project at Barshong Geog of Tsirang district in Bhutan focused on improving income of target households through promoting climate adaptive practices at each node of two specific value-chains; goats and vegetables. Recently, a six-days’ training-cum-exposure visit on onion and garlic production was organised by Himalica at theNational Horticulture Research and Development Foundation (NHRDF) in Nashik, Maharastra from 20-25 July 2015. The training was organised as per the need expressed by District Agriculture Office (DAO), which is a local implementing agency for Himalica.
The training was organized with an aim to provide learning opportunities and familiarise the target community and responsible stakeholders about the good practices being applied for promoting onion and garlic production. There were ten participants from Barshong Geog (pilot site) with thirty percent of those participating women. The participants included eight progressive farmers and two agriculture extension officers. The visit was facilitated by Ms Lipy Adhikari from ICIMOD.
Major learnings from the lectures delivered by the scientists at NHRDF were as follows:
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