Friends
Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) invites you to our 2nd workshop on Ecological Agriculture, focusing this time on Eastern India. The workshop is being organized by DRCSC, popularly known as Service Centre in West Bengal, one of the foremost resource centres for sustainable agriculture and natural resource management.
Who are expected to participate:
The workshop is meant for key organizers in NGOs and community organizations which are taking up the promotion of ecologically sustainable agriculture, and possibly some farmers who are not only practicing ecological farming but also working to propagate it. We are particularly inviting participants from the Eastern region, i.e., West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Eastern UP. If you are not working in these states but still want to attend the workshop for specific reasons, do write to us and we will try to accommodate. Note that two more ASHA workshops are being organized in Central India and Northern India.
Dates, Venue and Logistics:
The training will be conducted at the Bolpur Training Centre which is 130 km from Kolkata. You should reach Kolkata on Sept. 4th by 12pm, and the whole group will travel by 4.15pm train to Bolpur, reaching there around 8pm. The training will end around 12.30pm on Sept. 8th and the group plans to take the 2.30pm train back to Kolkata to reach around 6pm. You are advised to plan your departure time for return journey after 8pm on Sept. 8th.
Travel expenses and arrangements should be taken care of by the participants from their respective locations to Kolkata (Howrah or Sealdah). The organizers will take care of travel to venue and back, and food and accommodation (shared rooms).
Please register by 24th August:
There are 30 spots planned for participants. You are requested to register and confirm at the earliest, by sending the following details with Subject “ASHA Training at DRCSC” to DRCSC: drcsc.ind@gmail.com, Pankaj Bhushan: mail.tarafoundation@gmail.com
Name:
Organization (if any):
Role in the organization:
Location:
Age:
Gender:
Email Address:
Mobile Number:
Food Preferences:
Your Expectations from the training (in brief):
Brief description of your (or organization’s) work related to farmers/sustainable agriculture:
Looking forward to a fruitful workshop.
Kavitha Kuruganti (kavitha.kuruganti@gmail.com), Anshuman Das (drcsc.ind@gmail.com), Pankaj Bhushan (mail.tarafoundation@gmail.com), Kiran Vissa (kiranvissa@gmail.com)
