Department has submitted a detailed proposals to the UGC under 11th plan to start various courses in the proposed Centre for Seed Technology Education, Research and Extension with the following objectives.
1) Education
A) Post Graduate Degree in Seed Science and Technology (Already running from 2004)
B) Seed Technology as one of the science subjects at Under Graduate level(to be started from academic session -2010).
C) Diploma in Seed Certification, Medicinal and Aromatic plants cultivation and Marketing (to be started from academic
session -2010).
D) Certificate Courses (Nursery Practices, Seed Processing and Storage etc.) (to be started soon)
2) Research
A) Seed Biology(Reproductive Biology, Seed Physiology, Seed Pathology)
B) Crop Improvement (Tissue Culture and Genetic variability)
C) Germplasm conservation/Germplasm Bank
D) Data base Development
3) Extension
A) Establishment of Demonstration Units and planting material repository
B) Development of Package of Practices
C) Farm Practices and Transfer of Technology
D) Training, Workshops and Seminars
1) Education
A) Post Graduate Degree in Seed Science and Technology (Already running from 2004)
B) Seed Technology as one of the science subjects at Under Graduate level(to be started from academic session -2010).
C) Diploma in Seed Certification, Medicinal and Aromatic plants cultivation and Marketing (to be started from academic
session -2010).
D) Certificate Courses (Nursery Practices, Seed Processing and Storage etc.) (to be started soon)
2) Research
A) Seed Biology(Reproductive Biology, Seed Physiology, Seed Pathology)
B) Crop Improvement (Tissue Culture and Genetic variability)
C) Germplasm conservation/Germplasm Bank
D) Data base Development
3) Extension
A) Establishment of Demonstration Units and planting material repository
B) Development of Package of Practices
C) Farm Practices and Transfer of Technology
D) Training, Workshops and Seminars
Research
Research to generate information starting from production to storage of quality seeds in cereals, oil seeds, pulses, vegetables and medicinal plant’s crops is being undertaken.
Extension
Training on seed production and seed storage in varieties and hybrids in Agriculture and Horticulture crops is being given to seed production and extension functionaries. In-service training to officers of Department of Seed Certification, Agriculture and Horticulture. Apart from this, field demonstrations at village level on seed hardening and other seed handling techniques. Following is the details of the extension work:
The extension activity is to initiate the interest of the youth towards the subject, participatory action and research to explore means for development and conservation strategies as well as to help local communities to identify their own constraints and solution in collaborative mannered also to fulfill the gap between community, technology and research.
Extension work for the adoption of new technologies in herbal sector in hilly region. There is a need of scientific land use and treatment of land per need demonstration to the local people. Workshops are arranged time to time with the help of experts for increasing the efficiency of the farmers. For popularizing high yielding crop varieties and improved modern technology and cropping patterns, field trials are proposed here for establishment of Germplasm bank and mass scale propagation studies for production of quality planting material.
To rehabilitate the barren and unproductive agriculture land through community participation and the wasteland restoration to improve the land use efficiency, productivity and natural resource conservation and fulfill the basic need of inhabitants.
Establishment of demonstration unit play key role on spot demonstration of agro technology and storage units and also comparative performance of low and high quality planting material as well as appropriate agrotechnolgy. Demonstration units also concerns as the repository of quality planting material and hybrid seeds.
During training program detail account of the implication of conventional agricultural practices, seed quality, agrotechnology, harvesting and storage technique is proposed to provide through workshops, demonstrations and audio-visual means in the presence of qualified and specialized scientists/experts time to time.
In spite of substantial increase in agricultural land, the production has remained static because of lack of land management. Agriculture is the main occupation of hill inhabitants but the land resources have become degraded due to inappropriate and non- scientific cultivation practices. Proper land use is very essential for sustainable developmental strategies as well as conservation concern for which peoples participation is must. There is a genuine need of resources development at local level and wide applicability should be done only through formulating and with interaction of growers/villagers including women as the agriculture of the Uttarakhand totally depends on the women power which can provide maximum productivity and land restoration.
To arrange Training Programs to aware the local towards right choice of hybrid seeds and land, organic farming, transgenic crops, intercropping, crop rotation and advance agro technological approaches to enhance the land productivity and crop yield to get maximum and sustainable benefit.
The economical status of hill farmers is normally based on mainly on agricultural and majority of rural population depends on farming for their livelihood. In some hill pockets, the farmers have taken up vegetable and quality seed production as a primary programme while a substantial number of hill farmers grow seed crops as a secondary business. Therefore, the seed production of different field crops has the potential of improving the living standard of the hill population of the country. However, the traditional farmers in the hills engaged in seed production are generally economically poor land include small marginal and even landless farmers. Because of limited resources at their command and they are not in position to make use of the new technology required and as have no other source of income, more so they are not aware about the varieties to be grown, use of inputs like fertilizers, pesticides weedicides etc. Production and consumption of field crops is directly related to the improvement the socio-economic status of the people.
To motivate people to crops such as vegetable production in the hills this will not only improve the health of population but it will help to solve the food problem to a great extent, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The vegetables are better source of income in comparison to other crops in hill state. The off-season vegetables produced in the hills are tasty, flavored, and attractive and of better quality which are sold at a higher rate in the plains. More returns can be earned but regulating the sowing timings either by advancing or delayed swings of some vegetables will bring better prices in the market because of their early or delayed availability to the consumers.
Better employment generation
1. Seed production industry, particularly off-season vegetable industry being labour intensive, offer better employment opportunities and because of difficult terrain, small and scattered land holdings, all the operations need to be done manually light from ploughing to harvesting transport (head loads) to marketing etc. Therefore, production of off-season vegetables in the hills create a number of jobs opportunities to the young woman fold land young youths in the complementary fields of vegetable trade that also involves packaging, transportation, processing , marketing and finally distribution.
2. The hill pose peculiar situation to those of plains. Soil in general are shallow abounds in pebbles, stones and boulders may be acidic, well drained, rich in potassium and deficient in micronutrients like molybdenum, boron and zinc. Further, the farmers of hilly areas attach much importance to rural compost and farmyard manure. So accurate manure schedules of different vegetable crops need to be worked out. Land conditions in the hilly areas are quite different to plains. The land holdings are small; fields are narrow, terraced and undulating difficulty to cultivate. More so the land holdings are scattered while the land is leveled and holdings is large in plains.
3. The farmers in the hills are economically unsound. The produce and inputs are required to carry by farmer himself as head loads or labour by paying exorbitant charges. Time taken to carry the produce from field to warehouse and then market lies much more sometimes the perishable crops such as vegetables get dried or damaged before these reaches to the actual consumers. The overall expenditure involved in the hills lies much more for doing each operation from sowing to disposal of the produce as compared to plain areas is compensated with the higher returns obtained from the vegetable.
4. Training programs aware the local towards right choice of hybrid seeds and land, organic farming, transgenic crops, intercropping, crop rotation and advance agro-technological approaches to enhance the land productivity and crop yield to get maximum and sustainable benefit.
Extension
Training on seed production and seed storage in varieties and hybrids in Agriculture and Horticulture crops is being given to seed production and extension functionaries. In-service training to officers of Department of Seed Certification, Agriculture and Horticulture. Apart from this, field demonstrations at village level on seed hardening and other seed handling techniques. Following is the details of the extension work:
The extension activity is to initiate the interest of the youth towards the subject, participatory action and research to explore means for development and conservation strategies as well as to help local communities to identify their own constraints and solution in collaborative mannered also to fulfill the gap between community, technology and research.
Extension work for the adoption of new technologies in herbal sector in hilly region. There is a need of scientific land use and treatment of land per need demonstration to the local people. Workshops are arranged time to time with the help of experts for increasing the efficiency of the farmers. For popularizing high yielding crop varieties and improved modern technology and cropping patterns, field trials are proposed here for establishment of Germplasm bank and mass scale propagation studies for production of quality planting material.
To rehabilitate the barren and unproductive agriculture land through community participation and the wasteland restoration to improve the land use efficiency, productivity and natural resource conservation and fulfill the basic need of inhabitants.
Establishment of demonstration unit play key role on spot demonstration of agro technology and storage units and also comparative performance of low and high quality planting material as well as appropriate agrotechnolgy. Demonstration units also concerns as the repository of quality planting material and hybrid seeds.
During training program detail account of the implication of conventional agricultural practices, seed quality, agrotechnology, harvesting and storage technique is proposed to provide through workshops, demonstrations and audio-visual means in the presence of qualified and specialized scientists/experts time to time.
In spite of substantial increase in agricultural land, the production has remained static because of lack of land management. Agriculture is the main occupation of hill inhabitants but the land resources have become degraded due to inappropriate and non- scientific cultivation practices. Proper land use is very essential for sustainable developmental strategies as well as conservation concern for which peoples participation is must. There is a genuine need of resources development at local level and wide applicability should be done only through formulating and with interaction of growers/villagers including women as the agriculture of the Uttarakhand totally depends on the women power which can provide maximum productivity and land restoration.
To arrange Training Programs to aware the local towards right choice of hybrid seeds and land, organic farming, transgenic crops, intercropping, crop rotation and advance agro technological approaches to enhance the land productivity and crop yield to get maximum and sustainable benefit.
The economical status of hill farmers is normally based on mainly on agricultural and majority of rural population depends on farming for their livelihood. In some hill pockets, the farmers have taken up vegetable and quality seed production as a primary programme while a substantial number of hill farmers grow seed crops as a secondary business. Therefore, the seed production of different field crops has the potential of improving the living standard of the hill population of the country. However, the traditional farmers in the hills engaged in seed production are generally economically poor land include small marginal and even landless farmers. Because of limited resources at their command and they are not in position to make use of the new technology required and as have no other source of income, more so they are not aware about the varieties to be grown, use of inputs like fertilizers, pesticides weedicides etc. Production and consumption of field crops is directly related to the improvement the socio-economic status of the people.
To motivate people to crops such as vegetable production in the hills this will not only improve the health of population but it will help to solve the food problem to a great extent, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The vegetables are better source of income in comparison to other crops in hill state. The off-season vegetables produced in the hills are tasty, flavored, and attractive and of better quality which are sold at a higher rate in the plains. More returns can be earned but regulating the sowing timings either by advancing or delayed swings of some vegetables will bring better prices in the market because of their early or delayed availability to the consumers.
Better employment generation
1. Seed production industry, particularly off-season vegetable industry being labour intensive, offer better employment opportunities and because of difficult terrain, small and scattered land holdings, all the operations need to be done manually light from ploughing to harvesting transport (head loads) to marketing etc. Therefore, production of off-season vegetables in the hills create a number of jobs opportunities to the young woman fold land young youths in the complementary fields of vegetable trade that also involves packaging, transportation, processing , marketing and finally distribution.
2. The hill pose peculiar situation to those of plains. Soil in general are shallow abounds in pebbles, stones and boulders may be acidic, well drained, rich in potassium and deficient in micronutrients like molybdenum, boron and zinc. Further, the farmers of hilly areas attach much importance to rural compost and farmyard manure. So accurate manure schedules of different vegetable crops need to be worked out. Land conditions in the hilly areas are quite different to plains. The land holdings are small; fields are narrow, terraced and undulating difficulty to cultivate. More so the land holdings are scattered while the land is leveled and holdings is large in plains.
3. The farmers in the hills are economically unsound. The produce and inputs are required to carry by farmer himself as head loads or labour by paying exorbitant charges. Time taken to carry the produce from field to warehouse and then market lies much more sometimes the perishable crops such as vegetables get dried or damaged before these reaches to the actual consumers. The overall expenditure involved in the hills lies much more for doing each operation from sowing to disposal of the produce as compared to plain areas is compensated with the higher returns obtained from the vegetable.
4. Training programs aware the local towards right choice of hybrid seeds and land, organic farming, transgenic crops, intercropping, crop rotation and advance agro-technological approaches to enhance the land productivity and crop yield to get maximum and sustainable benefit.