Visit – Agricultural Science Museum, PUSA
Sri VIS
Eco-Crusade along with DCCW students – a school menteed by us under Sarthi Programme of Climate EduXchange Project- an
initiative of TERI in partnership with DELL Global Giving, visited National Agricultural
Science Museum, situated in the premises of National Agricultural Science
Centre (NASC) complex of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New
Delhi.
Students got
opportunity to explore interesting information on agriculture. The major sections
were on:
1.
Six Pillars of Agriculture
2.
Agriculture in Pre-Historic
Period Agriculture during: Indus-valley Civilization, Vedic and Post Vedic
Period, Mogul Period & British Period.
3.
Agriculture Science in
Independent India.
4.
Universal issues relating to Agriculture
and its future in India.
As the visit was
more on educating students on the role of agriculture in climate change,
therefore we were more inclined towards the section in which detailed
information in respect of environmental changes occurring in the world, such as
green house effect, explosion of population, increasing agricultural costs,
factors responsible for environmental pollution, application of organic
technology for agriculture etc is provided.
After the visit
a brief discussion was held wherein students were come out with their view
points on --- the role of agriculture as a contributor to climate change, the
effect of climate change on agriculture and the solutions from agriculture for
climate change.
Overall the
entire visit was very informative and exciting.