Five days vocational training on ‘bakery and confectionery’ concludes AT KVK Sangrur

Ludhiana, July 24, 2023: The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sangrur organized a five-days vocational training course on ‘Bakery and Confectionery’ under the aegis of Directorate of Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) and ICAR-ATARI, Zone 1, Ludhiana from 17-21.07.2023. A total of 32 trainees both farmers and farm women participated in this training. The training course was organized under the guidance of Dr. Mandeep Singh, Associate Director (Trg.), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sangrur.

Dr. Mandeep Singh shared the role of KVK in transfer of community science technologies for the upliftment and empowerment of rural women. He motivated the trainees to form self-help groups for start-up and commercial entrepreneurship. He also urged the budding entrepreneurs to focus on preparation of quality products and to follow ethical preparations.

Shri Navdeep Rattan, an innovative farmer from Gharachon, Sangrur shared his experience on millets of its inclusion in our daily meal.

Dr. Shakshi Bisht, Extension Assistant (Home Science) and course coordinator of the training programme imparted training in preparation of different cakes, biscuits and chocolates. Millet based recipes like ragi cake, jowar cake, ragi biscuits were demonstrated in addition to preparation of ragi ladoos highlighting the celebration of international year of millets. Further, recipes like eggless date cake, eggless custard cake, eggless fruit cake, custard biscuits and different flavours of chocolates were prepared. Lectures on basic principles of bakery, bakery tools and importance of millets in human diet were given to impart detailed knowledge.

Jasvir Kaur from Gaggarpur prepared ladoos and a group of young trainees prepared the dates cake and had hands-on practice during the training.