Entrepreneurship development training on orchids

From Our Correspondent

KANGPOKPI | Sept 19

Three days Entrepreneurship Development Training on Orchids for Women and Youths was kicked off on September 18 at FEEDS, KVK Hengbung to inculcate awareness and knowledge of orchids and its importance of preservation for livelihood among the hills people.

The training programme was jointly organised by Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Government of India, Guwahati and Foundation for Environment and Economic Development Services (FEEDS), Hengbung. It was formally inaugurated by DC of Kangpokpi, T. Ranjit Singh at FEEDS, KVK Campus, Hengbung in the presence of former minister and president of FEEDS/KVK Hengbung, Haokholet Kipgen and other officials. Altogether, around 100 women and youths from across the district of Kangpokpi and Senapati participated in the training programme.

1. Ranjit Singh appreciated the encouraging activities of FEEDS and its establishment of Orchid Research and development Centre (ORDC) at FEEDS Hengbung while stressing the immense potential of natural resources that bestowed the state and the opportunity to explore with economic benefits.

Project organiser of FEEDS Hengbung, Lallenmang Singsit said that importance on preservation of orchids for livelihood of the people will be stressed out through awareness programme, training and workshops.

The orchids are unique recourses of Manipur which has become an economically important plant for the hill people in the state which could also serve as a source of income, he added.

Singsit also stated that the plant has been much harassed and pushed to extinction owing to the ignorance of the people. He further said that ORDC has been established by president of FEEDS, Hengbung, H. Kipgen with an aim to identify such plant and preserves to promote its essence.

IIE is the only official body which can impart entrepreneurial skills for the young farmers of the hill communities. The participants will be trained by faculties from IIE, Guwahati and IIE Manipur state coordinator as resource persons and all the trainees shall be given a certificate from Indian Institute of Entrepreneur, Guwahati, Government of India, said Singsit.