Extension

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Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bilaspur (Berthin) Welcomes You

ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2006-07

June2006-July 2007

A. Extension activities:

1. One day training programmes at different villages:

S. No.	Particulars	No. of programmes	No. of participants
S. No.	Particulars	No. of programmes	Male	Female	Total
1.	Crop Production	13	314	218	532
2.	Plant Protection	6	106	146	252
3.	Vegetable Production	18	488	292	780
4.	Animal Husbandry	20	321	401	722
5.	Home Science	2	0	47	47

2. Vocational training programmes:

S. No.	Date	Place	Subject/Topic	No. of participants
S. No.	Date	Place	Subject/Topic	Male	Female	Total
1.	13.07.06 to 15.07.06	Khrota and Rapper	Home scale preservation of fruits and vegetables	1	26	27
2.	19.07.06 to 21.07.06	Kuthera	Fabric painting and artificial flower making	-	30	30
3.	28.08.06 to 29.08.06	KVK, Berthin	Off-season and protected vegetable cultivation for farmers of Mandi sadar, brought by Deptt. of Horticulture under Hort. Tech mission.	17	3	20
4.	12.09.06 to 16.09.06	KVK, Berthin	Cultivation of Safed Musli & other medicinal plants	-	24	24
5.	18.9.06 to 22.9.06	Ghat (Kuthera)	Artificial jewellery and soft toy making	-	30	30
6.	29.11.06 to 5.12.06	KVK, Berthin	Promotion of agro entrepreneurship among rural youth with special emphasis on mushroom cultivation	38	20	58
7.	6.10.06 to 6.1.07	KVK, Berthin	Three months training for school drop out girls (11-18 years age group) on Fabric painting, artificial jewellery and flower making under Kishori Shakti Yojana	-	16	16
8.	7.3.07 to 9.3.07	KVK, Berthin	Three days vocational training on tie and dye for rural women	-	25	25
9.	12.3.07 to 16.307	KVK, Berthin	five days vocational training on soft toys for rural women	-	22	22

3. Training programmers in collaboration with other agencies:

S. No.	Duration	Agency	No. of training programmes	No. of Participants
S. No.	Duration	Agency	No. of training programmes	Male	Female	Total
1.	One day	Deptt. of Agriculture	7	374	959	1333
2.	-do-	Deptt. of Horticulture	6	118	20	138
3.	-do-	Mid Himalayan Project, Watershed Development Division Nurpur	3	173	102	275
4.	-do-	Deptt. of Animal Husbandry	4	63	65	128
5.	-do-	Manav Seva Sansthan	1	4	30	34
6.	-do-	IPH, Changer Area	1	22	16	38
7.	-do-	Mid Himalayan /Forest Deptt	3	173	102	275
	Two days	Deptt. of Agriculture	1	15	5	20

4. On-campus training programmes:

S.No.	Date	Subject/Topic	No. of participants
S.No.	Date	Subject/Topic	Male	Female	Total
1.	04.07.2006 to 06.07.2006	Production technology of Kharif season crops and diversification through other enterprises	8	17	25
2.	26.10.06	Scientific management of polyhouses for polyhouse owners of Bilaspur	53	-	53
3.	31.10.06 to 1.11.06	Scientific cultivation of rabi crops	25	-	25
4.	20.11.06	Integrated training on all aspects of agriculture	17	13	30
5.	27.11.06 to 28.11.06	Farmer-Scientist-Interaction on problems pertaining to agro techniques for rabi season cereals, vegetables, oil seed and pulse crops	16	13	29
6.	19.1.07 to 20.1.07	Two days training programme on post harvest technology for women group	-	30	30
7.	19.1.07	Training on vermi-composting for women group	-	25	25
8.	26.2.07 to 27.2.07	Training programme on Sustainable Hill Agriculture through Organic Farming	-	34	34
9.	16.4.07 to 18.4.07	Scientific cultivation of kharif crops	10	8	18
10.	19.4.07 to 23.4.07	Bee Keeping	-	24	24
11.	28.4.07	Commercial agricultural entrepreneurship for NSS volunteers	32	18	50
12.	30.4.07	Scientific cultivation of pulse crops and vegetables	12	10	22
13.	3.5.07 to 4.5.07	Training on “Scientific cultivation of off- season vegetables”	-	24	24
14.	9.5.07 to 11.5.07	Training programme on INM in cereals, vegetables, oil seed and pulse crops	19	9	28

5. In-service training programmes at KVK:

S.No.	Date	Subject/Topic	No. of participants
			Male	Female	Total
1.	21.6.07	Integrated Agriculture	11	3	14

6. Special invited lectures by KVK scientists at other places:

S.No.	Inviting agency	No. of Training Programmes	No. of lectures	No. of participants
S.No.	Inviting agency	No. of Training Programmes	No. of lectures	Male	Female	Total
1.	Deptt. of Agriculture.	9	18	292	247	539
2.	CDPO, Jhandutta	1	1	-	38	38
3.	Deptt. of Horticulture.	2	2	241	9	250
4.	Deptt. of Veterinary	1	1	15	10	25
5.	H.P. State co-operative Bank	1	1	41	45	86
6.	The Talai Gram Seva Sabha	1	1	150	70	220
7.	Manav Seva Sansthan	1	1	-	22	22
8.	Haryali Water Shed, Jhandutta	1	1	35	8	43
9.	Agriculture Marketing Committee, Bilaspur	1	2	45	27	72

7. Frontline demonstrations:

Kharif season (2006)

S. No	Crop	No. of demonstrations	No. of beneficiaries	Area covered (ha)	Average yield (q/ha)	Per cent increase in yield over check
1.	Oilseeds	No. of demonstrations	No. of beneficiaries	Area covered (ha)	Average yield (q/ha)	Per cent increase in yield over check
	a)Soybean i) PK-472	6	6	1.0	9.94	New Introduction
	b)Sesame i) LTK-4 ii) Pb.Til No.1	4 13	4 13	0.4 1.6	3.70 3.95	27.58 58.00
2.	Pulses
	a)Mash (UG-218)	21	21	2.0	9.98	81.45
	b) Arhar(Sarita)	8	8	1.0	11.68	New Introduction
	c) Cowpea (C-475)	10	10	1.0	9.06	51.00
3.	Maize i)KH-9451 ii)KH-2005	15 15	15 15	6.0 6.0	30.82 30.53	49.90 41.87

Rabi season (2006-07)

S.No.	Crop	No. of demonstrations	No. of beneficiaries	Area covered (ha)	Average yield (q/ha)	Percent increase in yield over check
1.	Oilseeds	No. of demonstrations	No. of beneficiaries	Area covered (ha)	Average yield (q/ha)	Percent increase in yield over check
	Toria (Bhawani)	16	16	2.0	4.99	65.23
2.	Pulses
	a) Gram i) HC-2 ii) HPG-17	4 13	4 13	0.5 1.5	9.70 11.01	61.40 83.19
	b) Lentil i) HPL-5 ii) EC-1	4 7	4 7	0.4 0.6	7.81 8.30	47.36 56.60

8. Other Extension Activities:

a) Farmers’ visits to KVK: 228

b)Scientists’ visit to farmers’ fields (Survey/Awareness/Kisan goshties/Diagnostic visits /Field days etc.) : 89 c)Telephone help line: 252

9. Demonstrations

Method demonstrations:

Date	Place	Demonstration/Activity	Participants
07.07.2006 & 19.07.2006	Dadhol	Method demonstration for soil analysis for pH, organic carbon, N, P and K to Agri clinic Manager working under co operative society	15
15.12.06	Mahrana	Practical demonstration on vermicomposting	47
27.12.07	Ladda	Practical demonstration on selection of seed rhizomes of ginger, their treatment and storage technology	14
17.2.07	Vill. Karot	Demonstration on Zimikand mother/daughter corm selection for seed and its storage technology	9
21.2.07	Cheddi	Practical demonstration on selection of seed rhizomes of ginger, their treatment and storage technology	14

Result Demonstrations

i) Demonstration on performance of wheat varieties under restricted irrigation

Variety	Yield (q/ha)
HPW-184	35
HPG-155	29
HS-295	33
Raj-3777	34
VL-616	40
VL-738	43

Under restricted irrigation (life saving) VL 738 and VL 616 gave higher grain yield than other varieties of wheat.

ii) Demonstration on performance of gram varieties

Variety	Yield (q/ha)
HC-1	4.25
HPG-17	6.00
HC-2	7.14

In gram under rainfed conditions HC-2 gave highest yield followed by HPG-17.

10. Special celebrations for year 2006-07:

S. No.	Date	Place	Subject	No. of Participants
S. No.	Date	Place	Subject	Male	Female	Total
1.	4.8.06	Mahila Mandal, Malangan	World Breast Feeding Week-2006 (1.8.06 to 7.8.06)	-	17	17
2.	1.9.06	Bala	Field day on Til	25	10	35
3.	26.9.06	Talyana	Field day on Maize	49	57	106
4.	28.9.06	Dharoti	Field day on Maize	23	17	40
5.	15.11.06	KVK, Berthin (In collaboration with Deptt. of Horticulture)	Kisan mela-cum-Kisan goshthi	350	65	415
6.	23.11.06	Jyoti Public Sr Sec. School, Berthin, Bilaspur	Science day	191	102	293
	4.12.06	Fatoh village of Jandhutta block	Women in Agriculture Day	-	31	31
7.	10.1.07	KVK Berthin	Second Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting of KVK chaired by Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, CSK HPKV, Palampur, Director Extension Education and Zonal Coordinator attended the meeting along with other members.	29	1	30
8.	25.4.07	Kotlu Brahmina	Field day on Pulses (gram)	78	25	103

11. Village Survey/ Monitoring & Evaluation etc.:

Monitoring and evaluation of ATMA activities in all the three blocks of the district was carried out. Survey-cum-awareness programmes were carried out in two Panchayats in Ladda area with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) New Delhi, an NGO for finding possibilities for raising micro propagated ginger, turmeric, bamboo etc. Germplasm of zimikand and arbi has been collected from major niches of these crops in the district for their evaluation in the coming season.

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