Thrust Areas

• Natural Resource Management.
• Crop management Practices.
• Horticulture & Vegetables Crops.
• Integrated Plant Protection Techniques.
• Implements & Farm Machinery.
• Women in Agriculture.
• Value Addition & Processing.
• Animal Science.

 

Potential :

• Sufficient availability of resources for crop diversification.


• Low labour cost.


• Good scope for organic cultivation.


• Gap in production potential.


• Easy e- extension in rural areas due to IT revolution in the country.


• Improving purchasing capacity.


• Sufficient availability of cow dung, and poultry manure to produce biogas and manure of high quality.


• Level of improved farm machinery is very low have great potential.


• Scope exists to increase the returns to farmers by establishing small agro processing units in production catchments.


• Scope for entrepreneurship development for custom hiring of high capacity and costly farm machinery.

Identified Problems :

• Lack of high yielding varieties/ hybrids in field crops.


• Poor seed replacement rate (8 %) & negligible seed treatment.


• High incidence of insect & diseases.


• High infestation of weeds in Kharif crops.


• Imbalance use of fertilizer declining soil health.


• Lack of soil & water conservation techniques.


• Low input use efficiency.


• Slow crop diversification under Horticultural crop and intensification of farming system.


• Poor adoption of latest technologies at farmer’s part.


• High post harvest losses (10 – 12 % in grain, 25 – 30 % in vegetable & fruit crop.


• Poor credit support particularly small & marginal farmers.


• Weak transfer of technology system.