Our Cluster Development Executive (CDE) and members of Lokodrusti conducted meeting with famers to discuss different agriculture related topics with a particular focus on black rice and protein rice farming. During the kharif season, we perform surveys with 95 farmers from borden block and 21 f armers from khariar block, encompassing more than 150acres of land for black rice demonstration. These meetings had covered vital topics such as summer paddy cultivation, best practices adoption, and updates on the Nuapada nutri Rice cluster (NPNRC)programme.