Webinar Summary Report
World Soil Day, 2022
An International webinar on the auspicious occasion of “World Soil Day, was Jointly organized by the Department of Botany, Nanda Nath Saikia College, Titabar, Jorhat, Assam in collaboration with Department of Botany, Dhemaji College and Common Microbial Biotechnology Platform (CMBP) at Hanoi, Vietnam on dated 5th December, 2022. The Webinar was aimed to raise the awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management, increasing soil awareness and encouraging societies to improve soil health. Thus, the key perspectives of World Soil Day lies in creating attention among the research fraternities, common people and farmers on the importance of healthy soil and advocating for the sustainable management of soil resources.
Webinar organizers
Convenor-
Dr. P. N. Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, NNS College, Titabar, Jorhat, Assam
Convenor-
Dr. Bhaskar Sarmah, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, NNS College, Titabar, Jorhat, Assam
Joint Convenor-
Dr. N. F. Islam, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, NNS College, Titabar, Jorhat, Assam
International Collaborator
Dr. Didier Lesueur, Senior Soil Microbiologist at CIRAD, UMR Eco & Sols, Montpellier, France, Alliance CIAT-Biodiversity International/Deakin University/Melbourne-Australia, Vietnam.
Webinar structure and participants
The webinar was structured in a Welcome address; Inaugural speech; 02 Scientific presentations; Participant interactions, Vote of thanks and Online feedback collection from all the participants. More than 60 participants across the country joined in the Webinar and interacted with the resource persons.
Overview on different events of World Soil Day
The webinar welcome address was put forwarded by Dr. M. L. Dutta, the Vice-Principal & HOD of Botany, NNS College, Titabar. In her speech, she reminds us to strengthen the quality of soil and ensure that nature is preserved at all costs. The welcome address is followed by the inaugural speech of Dr. P. N. Bhattacharyya, Convenor of the Webinar Committee. In his speech, Dr. Bhattacharyya addressed the significance of World Soil Day 2022 and its theme "Soils, where food begins" that aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management, increasing soil awareness and encouraging societies to improve soil health. On this auspicious occasion of celebrating “World Soil Day 2022”, he too mentioned the message of Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar, honorable Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India to cite the importance of Healthy Soil on Earth. Following the inauguration speech, the scientific sessions of Soil Scientists have graced the occasion. Dr. Bhaskar Sarma, the convenor, and Dr. N. F. Islam, the Joint convenor of the Webinar committee introduced the honorable speakers before the participants and all. Two renowned speakers of the session viz. Dr. Kaberi Mahanta, Soil Scientist, HRS, Assam Agricultural University, Kahikuchi, Guwahti, Assam and Dr. Tanmoy Kark, FRSC, Principal Scientist (Soils), Upper Assam Advisory Centre, Dikom, Dibrugarh, Assam, accordingly shared their valuable knowledge and treasures of wisdom with the participants.
Key Presentations
1. Agroforestry: An alternative land-use for better soil health under changing climate-
Presented by Dr. Kaberi Mahanta, Soil Scientist, HRS, Assam Agricultural University, Kahikuchi, Guwahati, Assam.
2. Growing medium of a crop for Majestic motivations and imperial ambitions: Sick or rick!
Presented by Dr. Tanmoy Karak, FRSC, Principal Scientist (Soils), Upper Assam Advisory Centre, Dikom, Dibrugarh, Assam
Participants interaction
After the scientific presentation, there was a fruitful interactions being held among the delegates and resource persons. Generally, participants received the webinar positively and appreciated the practical examples in the scientific presentations. The participants are highly pleased while attending at such informative and knowledgeable occasion.
Feedback Collection
After the presentation period is over, feedback was being issued to the participants and duly collected online from them asking the following questions:
Vote of Thanks and Closing of the Webinar
The Webinar was ended with the Vote of Thanks delivered by Dr. P. N. Bhattacharyya, on behalf of the organizers. He thanks all the honorable delegates, faculties, researchers, farmers, planters and students who blessed with their presence and active participation throughout the whole session.
Live Demonstration Program on NEP-2020 Roadmap in enriching the Teaching-Learning process with online resources
The program was organized on 27 October 2022 from 01 pm onwards by NN Saikia College Library in association with IQAC N.N. Saikia College, Titabar in the college auditorium. It started with the introduction of the resource person, Dr. Birender Pal, Librarian, at Kaliabor College. It was followed by an inauguration by Dr. Litool Baruah, Principal of N.N. Saikia College. The resource person demonstrated various online platforms of learning and teaching which are useful for teachers and students subject-wise. Those are MOOCs, e-pg pathshala, Shodhganga, ARPIT, NDLIIITKGP, Virtual Labs, etc.
The teachers and students, in general, will be benefitted from the discussion as they will be made aware of the accessibility, usability, and availability of these resources. This will support the knowledge society by making information rich. The agenda ended with a vote of thanks from JP Oza, IQAC Coordinator, NN Saikia College, Titabar. Around 40 teachers and 100+ students attended the program. Mr. Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain, Librarian, at NN Saikia College coordinated the program and thanked everyone for their kind cooperation and gracious presence.
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