Siliguri, Jan. 31: The Vice chancellor of North
Bengal University, P. K. Saha, announced today that a bio clinic
will be started in the university to check and diagnose the growing
number of plants being affected by diseases in the region.
The 58th annual meeting of the Indian Phyto-pathological
Society (IPS) and a national seminar on the management of plant
diseases is being held at the university. The objective of the bio-clinic
will be to provide scientific information to the farmers on the
methods of protecting their crops and cultivation.
Voices of concern were raised in the seminar on
the degrading state of the bio-diversity in the region. The forest
minister, Jogesh Burman, in his inaugural speech emphasized on the
actions required to protect the rich bio-diversity of the region.
Experts have found out that the species called
Streptocolon sylvestrin, found abundantly in the region in the past
is almost extinct – now it can only be found in the North
Bengal University campus. However, all the experts agreed that the
flora and the fauna of the region are unique in many respects.
Apart from the officials of IPS, the seminar was
attended by Anupama Verma of Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
New Delhi, Roy Kennedy representing the Warwick Horticultural Research
International, U.K, and S.M. Paul Khurana, the vice-chancellor of
Rani Durgavati Viswavidyalay, Jabalpur. |
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