Zonal Summary

S No. / State No. of institutes / universities involved Total No of Groups/team formed No. of Scientists Involved No. of villages covered No. of field activities conducted No. of messages/advisory sent Farmers involved (No.)
ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi-834010 2 (Two) 13 6 Nos 83 25 times(Telephonic conversation) 650

Detailed Progress:

  • The programme initiated at ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology Ranchi, during 2019-20
    and two (2) multi-disciplinary teams formulated incorporating 13 scientist comprising 6 villages in
    total in two districts (Latehar and Ranchi) of Jharkhand have been selected.
  • Technical supports being provided through, village meeting, providing literature, focus-group
    discussions and mobile advisory particularly in field of plant protection and animal husbandry
  • About 40 visits have been made by different teams during 2019-20.
  • One training programme was organized on scientific vegetable farming for socio-economic upliftment of
    farmers
  • Experts from ICAR-IIAB, Ranchi highlighted the importance on various aspects of agriculture such as
    growing of high value crops, green manuring, organic farming, integrated farming system, scientific
    pisiculture, ornamental fish farming etc.
  • General sensitization programme was done on sensitization of Swachhta Hi Seva, climate change, soil and
    water conservation, soil test based application of fertilizer, zero budget farming etc
  • Special awareness programme was organized for scheduled vaccination and deworming of domestic animal.
  • In view of addressing the technical problem of farmer at village level, research programme will
    accordingly prioritized at institute level.

Detailed Progress:

No. of Team of Scientists No. of Scientists No. of Villages No. of Blocks No. of Districts Bench Mark Survey conducted(No. of villages)
1 Dr. Sudhir Kumar.
Dr. Madan Kumar,
Dr. Rishikesh Kumar,
Dr. Avinash
Pandey,
Dr. Sujatha TP.
Dr. SK. Bishi,
Dr. K. Tribhuvan,
Dr, B.K.
Singh,
Dr. A.K. Singh,
Dr. V.P. Bhadana		 4 (Chetag,Baniyo,Diridag and Suparan) Balumath Latehar Yes ( In all selected villages)
2(Garkhatanga,Lalkhatanga) Namkum Ranchi Yes ( In all selected villages)
2 Dr. Biplab Sarkar,
Dr. Soumen Naskar,
Dr. Sanjay Gupta		 Chetag Suparan Balumath Latehar Yes ( In all selected villages)
2(Garkhatanga,Lalkhatanga) Namkum Ranchi Yes ( In all selected villages)

Activities undertaken
Activities organised by ICAR Institutes/ SAUs under MGMG

S.No. Name of activity No. of activities conducted No. of farmers participated & benefitted
1 Visit to village by teams 38 240
2 Interface meeting/ Goshthies 16 150
3 Training organized 1 70
4 Demonstrations conducted – –
5 Mobile based advisories(No of message) 25
(Telephonic
conversation
regarding
agricultural and
allied
information’s
)		 50
6 Literature support provided (No) 1 (Hand written) 100
7 Awareness created (No) 18 150
8 Other, if any
Total 760

Table -2: Other activities organized by ICAR Institutes/ SAUs under MGMG

S.No. Name of activity No. /Area (ha) No. of farmers participated & benefitted
1 Linkages developed with other agencies (No. of agency)
2 Facilitation for new varieties, seeds, technology
i. New varieties (No.) High protein rice variety (CRD-310) 40
ii. Technology (No.)
iii. Seeds (q)
iv. New crops (No.)
V. Other Scientific pisciculture/composite fish culture 30
Ornamental fish farming 30

Activity-wise action photographs with caption (also attach photographs JPEG format
separately)

Case study with good quality photograph

Farmers
scientist interaction at Sangaithel (Latehar) under MGMG programme


Farmer
field visit by Experts from ICAR-IIAB at adopted village
Name of Nodal
officer
Dr. Sudhir Kumar, Scientist (GPB) & Nodal Officer ICAR-IIAB
Ranchi
Dr. Madan Kumar, Scientist (PP) & Co-nodal officer, ICAR-IIAB,
Ranchi