KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA KAPURTHALA

Dr. MANOJ SHARMA Deputy Director ( Training)

Trainings

Problems in the District

Interventions by KVK

Declining underground water

Use of tensiometer, laser leveler, proper time of sowing of paddy, introduction of short duration varieties, popularization of drip and sprinkler irrigation, bed planting of crops

Low milk production in cross bred cows and repeat breeding in cows

Cattle feed formulation at farmers level, use of UMMB, Use of mineral mixture

Anestrous in animals Artificial induction of milk

Cultivation on un-recommended varieties

Supply of quality seed, training on seed production

Use of un-recommended brands of insecticides/weedicides

Training on Integrated pest management and weed management, Proper spraying techniques,

Problems in the District

Interventions by KVK

Low income of farm women

Vocational training on fabric painting, stitching tailoring, bee keeping, mushroom growing, preservation of fruit and vegetables

Burning of paddy and wheat straw

Popularization of rotavator, happy seeder, compost making form straw, lectures on environmental pollution

Excessive use of nitrogen and phosphorus

Training on green manuring, FYM , INM, use of LCC, demonstration on FUE, campaign on soil testing

Damping of off vegetable seedlings

Training on seed treatment and nursery raising.

Trainings (Short Duration)Discipline On campus Off campus Total

C P C P C P

Crop production 05 132 01 15 06 147Soil Science 02 41 20 308 22 349Plant protection 03 64 09 162 14 228Horticulture 06 97 06 103 12 200Animal science 10 208 09 207 19 415Home science 03 57 07 237 10 294Extension education 01 18 01 82 02 100Bee-keeping - - 04 50 04 50

Vocational TrainingsDiscipline Duration

(Days)Courses Participants

Animal science 10-15 06 69

Bee-keeping 10 06 64

Home science 10 and 90 02 18

Mushroom growing 10 02 16

Total 16 167

ON FARM TRIAL

OFT : ESTIMATION OF FERTILIZER USE EFFICIENCY OF N IN PADDY VARIETY PR 113

Treatment Grain Yield (q/ha)

FUE (Nitrogen)

Gross Income (Rs./Unit)

C : B Ration

Control 25.8 - 25284 1.20

As per leaf colour char (Urea 225 kg /ha)

69.6 42.3 68208 3.24

As per PAU recommendations ((Urea 275 kg /ha)

69.9 34.8 68502 3.25

Farmer’s practice (Urea 300 kg/ha)

70.2 32.2 68796 3.26

Conclusion : Depending upon the paddy variety farmers must make use of LCC while applying urea to the crop as FUE was found to be maximum i.e. 42.3

OFT : MANAGEMENT OF FOOT ROT IN BASMATI VARIETY PUSA 1121

T1 : Seed dip in Bavistin @ 0.2 % + streptocycline @ 0.01 % for 12 hrs + Seediling dip in Bavistin @ 0.2 % for 6 hrs before transplanting

T2 : Seed dip in Bavistin @ 0.05 % + streptocycline @ 0.01 % for 12 hrs and smear the seed with talc formulation of Trichoderma harzianum @ 15 g / kg before sowing and seedling @ 15 g / liter water before transplanting

T 3 : Control (No seed / seedling treatment)

Conclusion : Both the treatments were effective in control of the disease

OFT: EFFECT OF DATE OF TRANSPLANTING ON YIELD AND WATER PRODUCTIVITY IN PADDY VARIETY PAU 201

Date of Transplanting

Grain Yield (q/ha)

Av. No. of Irrigations

Water Productivity (Kg/m3

Gross Income (Rs./Unit)

C : B Ration

Transplanting on 15th June

63.1 17 0.37 58683 1 : 2.93

Transplanting on 25th June

63.7 15 0.42 59241 1 : 2.96

Transplanting on 5th July

61.5 14 0.44 57195 1 : 2.86

Conclusion : Best date of transplanting was found to be between 15th to 25th June as the grain yield was found to be maximum

Treatment Grain Yield (q/ha)

Per cent disease incidence

Gross income (Rs. /ha)

C : B ratio

Two sprays of Blitox

64.9 Traces 60357 1 : 3.02

Control 63.9 3.4 59427 1 : 2.97

OFT : MANAGEMENT OF FALSE SMUT IN BASMATI VARIETY PUSA 1121 WITH TWO SPRAYS OF BLITOX

Conclusion : Two sprays of Blitox (0.25 %) at 10 per cent panicle initiation

and 10 days later gave complete control of disease at all the locations

OFT : EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT WEEDICIDES IN WHEAT

Treatments Per cent Weed Kill

(Monocots)

Per cent

Weed Kill

(Dicots)

Grain Yield

(q/ha)

2,4 D @ 625 g /ha + Isoproturon @ 1250 g /ha 79.9 58.3 44.05

Topik +Algrip 82.3 49.2 45.50

Leader @ 32.5 g /ha81.3 61.1 43.97

Atlantis @ 400 g / ha81.6 40.2 41.16

Farmer’s Practice (Fateh @ 32.5 g /ha) 74.4 38.9 41.07

Conclusion : Topic + Algrip was fond to be best under Kapurthala condition.

OFT:EFFECT OF METHOD OF SOWING ON WHEAT YIELD

Method of sowing Grain yield (q/ha)

Gross income (Rs /ha)

C : B ratio

Sowing by broadcasting (Farmer’s practice)

49.4 53352 1 : 3.05

Sowing with seed cum fertilizer drill

45.4 49032 1 : 2.80

Conclusion : Since the wheat was sown in the paddy straw incorporated field and operation of drill was not uniform which resulted in patchy growth of wheat crop. On the other hand sowing of 125 kg seed /ha with broadcasting method resulted in uniform crop stand. Higher seed rate and uniform plant growth may be the reason for getting higher yield in broadcasting method of sowing

DEMONSTRATIONS

Name of the farmer

Variety Yield (q/ha) Input (irrigation)

Irrigations saved (%)

T1 T2 T1 T2

Sandeeppal Singh

PR 114 69.1 69.5 12 16 25.0

Sarwan Singh HKR 47 69.0 68.6 13 18 27.8

Sukhwinder Singh

PR 116 69.8 70.3 14 17 18.0

Apinder Singh PR 111 67.4 67.3 12 16 25.0

T1 IRRIGATION WITH TENSIOMETER

T2 FARMER PRACTICE

USE OF TENSIOMETER FOR IRRIGATION SCHEDULING IN PADDY

USE OF ZINC SULPHATE FERTILIZER IN PADDY

T1 : 62.5 kg of ZnSO4 T2 : No ZnSO4

Increase in Paddy yield with application of Zinc Sulphate application in terms of grain yield varied

from 1.6 to 2.8 per cent

USE OF POTASH FERTILIZER IN PADDY FIELD

T1 : 50 Kg MOP /Ha T2 : No MOP

Application of Potash is must in Potassium deficient soils to get higher

yield in Paddy

USE OF PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZER IN PADDY FIELDS

T1 : NO Phosphorus, T2 : Phosphorus applied @ 12 Kg P2O5 /Ha

Response of Phosphorus application varied from 2.4 % to 5.2 % in

soils rating low and medium in phosphorus status

EFFECT OF SEED TREATMENT IN WHEAT

MANAGEMENT OF LATE BLIGHT IN POTATO

T1 : 5 sprays of Indofil M 45 at weekly intervalT2 : Farmer’s Practice ( Farmers apply Ridomil or Indofil M 45 after the appearance of disease which is of no use

Disease incidence (%) Yield (q/ha)

Locations T1 Farmer’s Practice

T1 Farmer’s Practice

1. 0.0 7.0 287.5 267.5

2. 0.5 8.5 278.9 255.03. 2.3 4.3 292.0 279.8

4. 0.75 6.2 277.0 261.0

Name of the farmer

Variety K status (Kg/ha)

Grain yield (q/ha)

Percent increase

T1 T2

Karamjit Singh PBW 343 102 (Low) 45.5 47.5 4.4

Surinder Singh PBW 343 106(Low) 42.5 44.8 5.2

Swaran Singh PBW 502 131 (Low) 454.0 47.5 6.3

KVK, Kapurthala Farm

PBW 550 109 (Low) 47.5 49.3 3.6

Gurdeep Singh PBW 343 111 (Low) 44.5 46.8 5.1

USE OF POTASH FERTILIZER IN WHEAT

T1 : Farmer’s Practice (No use of MOP)T2 : Use of MOP @ 50 kg / haIncrease in yield by applying MOP @ 50 kg /ha varied from 3.6 % to 6.3 per cent in different wheat varieties

AMELIORATION OF MN DEFICIENCY IN WHEAT

T 1 : Control T2 : 4 sprays of MnSO4

Increase in yield was found to be 3.5 per cent in PBW 343 and 2.3 per cent in PBW 503 with the application of MnSO4

DEMONSTRATION REGARDING THE JUDICIOUS USE OF P FERTILIZER IN WHEAT

Name of the Farmer

Variety Inherent P status (Kg /ha)

Grain yield (q/ha)T1 T2 Percent

increase

Jageer Singh PBW 343 16.5 (Medium)

46.3 48.0 3.6

Gurdeep Singh PBW 343 10.5 (Low) 42.5 44.5 4.8

Mohinder Singh PBW 502 9.5 (low) 43.8 46.0 5.0

Hardev Singh PBW 343 9.5 (Low) 40.5 41.8 3.0

T1 : Phosphorus application without soil test T2 : Application of Phosphorus on soil

test basis

Yield increased by 3.0 per cent to 5.0 per cent when phosphorus application was done on

soil test basis

DEMONSTRATION ON HAPPY SEEDER AND ROTAVATOR

Technology Grain Yield Straw Yield (q/ha)

No of tillers/m3

Ear Length (cm)

Happy Seeder

42.2 64.5 535.0 10.6

Rotavator 41.3 63.1 550.0 9.8

Farmer practice

41.9 64.1 545.0 9.9

Yield was highest in plots where sowing was done with the help of happy seeder followed by seed drill and was lowest where rotavator was used.

PERFORMANCE OF FLDSr.No.

CROP F.L.D. (NO.)

AREA ( ha.)

AV. YIELD (q/ha)

Per cent increase

F.L.D. F. P.

01. GRAM GPF 2 08 13.95 13.47 3.85

02.SUNFLOWER PSH

569 04 18.9 17.9 5.3

Others Extension activitiesActivity No. Beneficiaries

Field day 02 160

Kisan goshti 01 28

Exhibitions 06 3604

Method demonstrations 02 24

Lectures delivered 100 3760

Advisory services - 2806

Newspaper coverage 73 -

Activity No. Participants

Extension literature 16 -

Ex trainee samelan 1 13

Campaigns 03 81

Radio talks 06 -

TV talks 16

Soil Testing Campaign

Field day on Nutrition Garden at Village Boolpur

Field day on Nutrition Garden at Village Boolpur

PARTICIPATION

FARMERS MAKING QUERIES

SCENE OF EXHIBITION

SEED SOLD BY KVK

Major

group/class

Crop Variety Quantity

(qtl.)

Value (Rs.) Provided to

No. of

Farmers

CEREALS Paddy PR 111 5.76 10,800 12

Wheat PBW-343 90.0 1,57,500 36

Wheat PBW-550 220 5,55,000 550

OILSEEDS Sunflower PSH569 0.40 8,000 13

VEGETABLES Peas Pb.89 0.65 1,950 01

OTHERS Berseem BL 42 1.90 38,000 32

Sponsored Programmes (30)

Sponsoring Agency Courses Participants Amount Spent

ATMA, Kapurthala 12 339 1,05,000

Deptt. of Dairy Development 02 50 7,500

Dept. of Animal Husbandry 04 320 8,000

Regional Station, Bathinda 02 100 66,000

CIPMC, Jalandhar 03 150 6,000

KRIBHCO, Jalandhar 01 80 5,000

IFFCO, Kapurthala 03 107 22,000

NFL, Jalandhar 01 35 4,000

IPL, Kapurthala 01 30 5,000

Deptt. of Fisheries 01 20 1,000

Impact of Kitchen Gardening on vegetable and pulse consumption

Reaction of farmers about UMMB licks on Water intake, Dry matter intake and Health in Cows and

Buffaloes

46.52

73.13

11.54

28.96

3.77

84.62

3.25 3.84 3.84

21.27 19.26

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Water Intake Dry Matter Intake Animal Health

Farmers' Reaction

Res

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(%)

Improved No effect Deteriorated Not recorded

Reaction of farmers about impact of using UMMB licks on milk yield and fat percentage

44.00

11.54

28.00

61.54

28.00 26.92

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20.00

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70.00

Milk Yield Milk Fat

Farmer's Reaction

Res

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(%)

Improved No effect Not recorded

Impact of vocational Training In Dairy

Knowledge Indicator No. of Trainees having knowledge about different aspects in dairy

Before Training (%) After Training (%)

Breed Characteristics 25.00 75.00Feed Preparation 39.75 100.00Cause of Repeat Breeding 0.00 50.00Prevention and Control of RB

0.00 50.00

Cause of Mastitis 6.25 81.25Prevention and control of Mastitis

0.00 87.5

Loan Facilities 18.8 40.00Silage Making 6.25 40.00

Impact on Management Practices

Indicator Before Training (%) After Training (%)Never Some

TimesAlways Never Some

TimesAlways

Feed Preparation

93.7 0.00 6.25 37.50 6.25 56.25

Use of mineral mixture

81.5 12.25 6.25 0.00 62.5 37.50

Use of UMMB

100.0 0.00 0.00 31.25 50.00 18.75

Silage 100.0 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 0.00

Benefits gained from dairy trainings

Parameter Before After

Cost of disease Management(Av. Cost /Animal/Year in Rs)

1662.5 954.28

Feed Management (Av. Cost /Animal/Year in Rs)

20033.33 21566.27

Net Profit /Animal/Year (Rs) 10982.58 13590.04

IMPACT OF KVK ACTIVITIES

Technology Transferred % Adoption

BenefitsBefore Training

After Training

Feed management 50 600/ per animal /month

1000 per animal/ per month

Poultry Management 50 Unemployed Earned 1500-3000/ month

Disease management in dairy animals

20 600/ per animal /month

700/ animal/ month

Dairying 50 NIL 700 per animal per month

Garment construction 50 500/- month Rs 1000/ month

Fabric Painting 50 500 1500/monthPreservation of fruits and vegetables

40 Rs 1500/ month

Rs 2500/ month

Technology Transferred % Adoption

BenefitsBefore Training After Training

Detergent Making 12.5 - Rs 500 by selling 20 kg detergent

Use of green manure and FYM

50 - Saved Rs 800/- on P- fertilizers in paddy crop

Laser levelling of fields 50 - 25 % saving in irrigation time and water quantity

Leaf colour chart 25 - 25% saving in ureaIntegrated nutrient management

75 - 20 per cent increase in crop yield and saving Rs.500 per ha on chemical fertilizers

Preparation of compost from paddy straw

25 - Pollution control as paddy straw burning was avoided

Proper use of pesticides 65 Inefficacy leading to extra sprays

Saved Rs 500-800 on spray

SALIENT ACHIEVEMENTS

• Use of Mineral Mixture has been promoted among dairy farmers.

• Feed preparation at home has been promoted • Artificial induction of milk in crossbred cattle and

heifers have been tested on several animals. Results are very encouraging.

• 1280 soil and water samples analyzed by charging Rs. 25,600/- as testing fees till date.

• Adaptive research trials were conducted based on which final recommendations were made by PAU.

SALIENT ACHIEVEMENTS• 50 nutrition gardens were established to cater the fruits

and vegetable needs of farmer families.• Seed of Wheat, Paddy, Berseem, Sunflower and its

literature were made available to the farmers.• Awareness about use of UMMB, Mineral mixture, seed

treatment, irrigation methods, laser leveler, LCC and Tensiometer has been created. Zero tillage and raised bed planting is done on a large scale.

• KVK was approached for trainings by line departments.• Campaigns were also organized.• An income of Rs. 9.31 Lac generated from 8 ha

cultivable area of KVK farm during 2008-09

Status of Revolving Fund

YearOpening

balanceIncome Expenditure Net balance

2006-07 13,26,967 6,39,231 3,60,567 16,05,631

2007-08 16,05,631 6,90,233 3,96,463 18,99,401

2008-09 18,99,401 9,31,137 2,77,590 25,52,948