Pokhara, Mar. 27:A 3-day national workshop on researches on summer crops started at Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, Kaski district today under the auspices of Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC).

The main objective of the workshop is to work out future strategies on the basis of the council’s past experiments and their results as well as the ongoing programmes and current problems.

According to the council, paddy, maize, millet, buckwheat and latte among summer crops, peanut, niger seed, sesame, and sunflower among oilseeds, and soybean, bean, and arhar (gajamus indicus) among pulses have been brought under its field of experiment.

Working papers presented at the workshop by Nepalese and foreign agro-scientists will be discussed and conclusions reached at the seminar.

Participating in the workshop are 125 delegates including representatives or experts of Nepal Agricultural Research Council and its units such as the special division concerning crop research programme, regional agricultural research centre, agriculture department, and its divisions, regional and district agricultural offices, agricultural and animal science study institute, and national associations and institutions.

Representatives of the World Bank, donor agencies and other helping institutions are also participating in the workshop inaugurated by the crop and horticultural director of the council Dularachan Sau “Pathik.”