Team from Mangalorean Co-operative Bank to visit Israel: Click to know why

June 17: SCDCC Bank President M N Rajendra Kumar said that The South Canara District Central Co-operative Bank (SCDCC) Limited will send a team of representatives to Israel to study implementation of micro irrigation system of crops.
The team will have representatives from 26 cooperative societies. This is done to help farmers in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts overcome the water crisis in the coming years for both, agriculture and horticulture crops.
The Bank president said that this was the first time that a district cooperative bank was sending its cooperative members on a study visit to Israel. The 26-member team will leave for Israel on June 20 and will stay there till June 26. They will visit Israeli Parliament and collect information on modern farming technology. The study will include modern farming system, drip irrigation, visit the agriculture museum and so on. They would also study organic farming, organic farm produce, smart dairy farm, drip irrigation and so on. Based on the report submitted by the team, the SCDCC Bank will decide on sending a second team to Israel. The team members will have to implement the technology and the farming system they witnessed in Israel back in their village and thereby contribute to increase in farm production and minimise the use of water in farming.
Rajendra Kumar said that nearly 176 primary agriculture credit cooperative societies come under SCDCC Bank jurisdiction in the undivided Dakshina Kannada district. Each member travelling to Israel will incur an expense of Rs 1.70 lakh and this will be borne by the SCDCC.