Haflong: Dr. Manha Bathari, Junior Scientist & Principal Investigator of DBT project, from Assam Agricultural University-Zonal Research Station, Diphu organized an Input distribution and training programme at P. Simplangdisa and Jatinga in Dima Hasao  under a project sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology.

The programme aimed at popularsing the techniques of maintaining the bees in a scientific way. The farmers were sensitised about the scientific bee keeping technique and the benefits that lies in honey bee rearing. She encouraged the unemployed youths to take up Bee keeping as a new profession.

Dr. M. Bathari and her team is running the project in three different districts— Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao and Karimganj with a drive for conservation of bees, sustaining lives and provide a way for an alternate source of income. So far 107 farmers have been benefited from this project.