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Achievements
- Ten new research projects worth about Rs. 1.50 crore
were sanctioned to BAD by different funding agencies during
last two years.
- Developed and released 14 appropriate rice varieties, 7
varieties of groundnut, two each of maize, maura, nigar,
wheat and one each of pigeon pea, mustard black gram, horse
gram, gundli, soyabean, French bean and cowpea.
- Rice varieties Birsa Dhan-108, Birsa Vikas Dhan-109,
Birsa Vikas Dhan-110 and Birsamati: maize variety Birsa
Vikas Makka-2 and mustard variety Shivani, released by
Jharkhand State Seed Committe in 2003, have been notified by
Central Seed Committe, Govt. of India on March 21, 2005.
Birsa Vikas Dhan-109 has been released by State Seed
Committe of Rajasthan and Gujrat also. Similarly, State Seed
Committees of Tamilnadu and Rajasthan have released birsa
Vikas Dhan-110.
- Dissemination of location-specific production
technologies of crops under rainfed and limited irrigation
farming.
- Strengthening of Directorate of Farms & Seed Production
for production and distribution of different categories of
seeds.
- Generation and transfer of Integrated Nutrient
Management, Integrated Pest Management and Water Management
technologies.
- Development of improved breed of Pig (T & D) adaptable
under local bio-physical and socio-economic situations.
- Need-based backyard poultry and integrated pig-fish
culture technologies.
- Suitable agro-forestry models for plateau region.
- Mass propagation of plants through tissue culture at
Bio-technology Centre.
- Round the year multifaceted training programmes for
human resource development in agriculture and allied
disciplines.
- Special commendation made by I.C.A.R for N.S.P. revival,
N.A.T.P. performance and identification & validation of
I.T.K.
- On BAU proposal, Government of Jharkhand is providing
land and financial support for setting up of a college of
Agriculture in Santhalpargana region. new Department of
Aquaculture was started in the faculty of Veterinary
Sciences.
- Integrated Development of Horticulture in Ranchi and
Hazaribag district was launched with the active support of
Central Govt., State Govt. and NGOs.
- Performance of BAU components of IVLP was rated the best
in country.
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