ICAR-KVK, Gonikoppal organized PM Kisan Samman Nidhi program on 25 th Dec 2020. The program was live telecasted from Hon. Prime Minister of India office and was broadcasted live at KVK, Gonikoppal, Kodagu office. A total of 1068 farmers were registered for the live event from Kodagu District and the program was watched by 76 farmers and 19 KVK, staff.

During the event Hon. Prime Minister of India addressed the farmers and released PM Kisan money to beneficiary farmers account through PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme and launched Financing Facility under Agri Infrastructure Fund. As part of the event, Prabhakar, SMS (Horticulture) gave training on mushroom cultivation and IIHR –KVK Incubate Smt. Rashmi Bhanuprakash method demonstrated mushroom value addition and ready to fruit bag production to the farmers who were present.