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more-inThe Farmers’ Training Centre (FTC) at the Urban Wholesale Agricultural Market at Vengeri, for which construction started six years ago, may soon become a reality. The plan was to build a satellite centre of the State Agriculture Management Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) with modern facilities for training farmers in Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. The facilities proposed at the centre include seminar hall, mini conference hall, demonstration room and laboratories, separate dormitories for women and men, kitchen, and dining halls. The three-storey building, located at the western end of the 10-hectare market, under the Department of Agriculture, was conceived to benefit farmers in north Kerala, more than a decade ago. The Thrissur-based Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development (COSTFORD) was tasked to construct the complex at a cost of ?96.6 lakh in 2012..