FARMER LEARNING CENTRE:-
Training is an integral part of SSCOP’s Mission of building community and stakeholder capacities and knowledge and skills so that they have informed choices. SSCOP’s every implementation strategy has training as an integral part which gives it a leverage in entire state of West Bengal as being a Centre of Training excellence.
SSCOP is also a Training Partner under the Utkarsha Bangla Scheme with Government of West Bengal running two batches of 30 students each in two verticals – Small Fisheries and small fisheries.
SSCOP has also emerged as the key training provider in the emerging Bio-Floc system of Fisheries with 6 trainings completed with almost 200 participants which is a paid training.
We have already conducted more than 200 residential and 100 one day training for SHGs, farmers, FPOs, FPCs, Government not only from Coochbehar but from other Districts and States and Countries (Nepal, Bhiutan, Bangladesh).
SSCOP has a unique Training facility in Chhat Elajan in rural Coochbehar (20 Kms from Coochbehar Town) with modern AV and presentation equipments which can at one time provide Training for 50 People, We also have dormitory facility with common toilets and baths for residential training for more than 1 day.
This training facility has AC, generator, Laptops and Mike and other essential infrastructure. We also have transport facility.
We also have in-house experts/trainers, Experts from UBKV, Department of Agriculture, and National Experts in our panel. We are supported in our projects by NABARD, Australian Government, ACIAR, CIMMYT, UBKV, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and also Corporate like Godrej Agrovet, Mahindra Samridhi etc.
We have project sites which are excellent exposure/demonstration locations for the trainees who get firsthand experience of agriculture and allied activities and interactions with the beneficiaries