On 8/11/2019, an initiative taken up by ICAR-IIHR’s Swatch Bharat Implementation group and Association for Advancement of Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems (AAPMHE), to organize Parthenium Eradication programme in the form of mass removal of Parthenium weed. The eradication of Parthenium was planned in and around IIHR campus. The programme was taken up in both the sides of roads from Main Entrance gate of IIHR to end of VIII Block, in about 1.5 km crossing via adjacent village ‘Ivarakandapura’. Around 400 staff members including Director, ICAR-IIHR and staff of IIHR, Panchayat members of Hurlichikkanahalli, villagers of Ivarakandapura and Government school students of Ivarakandapura took active part in this programme. The programme was jointly coordinated by Dr V Sridhar, Secretary AAPMHE and Dr Nandeesha P, Nodal Officer SBIC, ICAR-IIHR
