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Volume XI April-June, 2018

Live Interaction of Hon’ble Prime Minister with Farmers 20.06.2018

KVK Azamgarh

Live interaction with Farmers of Distt. Shahjahanpur

n this occasion Prime Minister Shree Narendra Modi Ji said that the country’s farmers were largely left to their own devices Oand their benefits gradually scaled back. PM Modi was interacting with farmers across the country and addressing their concerns through the NaMo app. This programme was also broadcast on TV Channels- DD Kisan/DD National. Hon’ble Prime Minster also interacted with farmers of Shahjahanpur KVK (Uttar Pradesh) on KVK Bhadoi 20.06.2018. ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur officials were also availed this important programme. District Shahjahanpur NIC centre was selected for this programme. In this programme KVK Shahjahapur organised and brought the farmers to the NIC centre. 70 KVKs of Uttar Pradesh organised this Programme. Total 9643 farmers including 2503 farm women participated in this programme throughout the state. On this occasion Hon’ble PM also discussed about record production of milk, cereal, pulse crops and livestock strains etc. He also discussed on importance of Soil Health Card. Doubling of farmers income, IFS, launch of various programmes such as Fasal Bima Yojna were the main discussion points. This programme was exactly started on 9:30 am and continued till 11:00 am at every centre KVK Sonbhadra Newsletter

Monitoring of Uttar Pradesh KVKs by Cabinet Ministers

MO directed the Ministry of Agriculture (GoI) for & bio-products produced and provided to farmers vi. visits of all cabinet ministers who are having Soil Health cards distributed vii. OFT viii. Cropwise PKVKs in their respective constituency. FLD ix. Training programmes x. Impact of technologies Monitoring indicators were prepared by the ministry. transferred/disseminated xi. Financial management of Accordingly a total of 26 KVKs were identified for the last 4 years xii. Revenue generated xiii. Convergence purpose. As per the instructions, all the 26 KVKs with line departments xiv. Awards/recognitions xv. prepared the report and sent to the Council. Following Interactive session with farmers xvi. Co-ordination with indicators were kept for monitoring and accordingly line departments, Distt. Administration/NGOs respective ministers prepared the report and submit the Progressive farmers xv. Expectations of farmers of the duly signed report of KVKs to the Ministry. area from KVK xvi. General perception of farmers about Indicators :- i. Staff Position ii. Infrastructure KVK xvii. What could be done to improve the functioning development iii. Vehicle & ICT facilities available iv. List of KVKs. of farm machineries available v. Seed/Planting Material

Visit of Hon’ble Smt Krishna Raj, Minister of State in the Visit of Hon’ble Sushri Uma Bharati, Minister of Drinking Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare : KVK Badaun Water and Sanitation: KVK Lalitpur

Visit of Hon’ble Dr. Satya Pal Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of HRD; & Minister of State in the Ministry of Water resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation: KVK Baghpat & Meerut

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Visit of Hon’ble Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Minister of Women & Child Development

Visits made by the ministers to the respective KVKs with date Hon’ble Dr. Mahesh Sharma Aligarh 10.06.2018 Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; & Minister of State in Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Hon’ble Dr. Satya Pal Singh Baghpat 14.06.2018 Minister of State in the Ministry of HRD; & Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Meerut 14.06.2018 Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. Hon’ble Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Pilibhit 15.05.2018 Minister of Women and Child Development. Hon’ble Smt. Krishna Raj Badaun 22.06.2018 Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Hon’ble Sushri Uma Bharati Lalitpur 10.06.2018 Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation. Hon’ble General (Retd.) V. K. Singh Ghaziabad 02.05.2018 Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs. Hon’ble Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla Gonda 06.07.2018 Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance. Hon’ble Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla Basti * Hon’ble Smt. Krishna Raj Shahjahanpur * Hon’ble Shri Manoj Sinha Azamgarh * Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Communications; and Railways, Ghazipur Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. Hon’ble Smt. Anupriya Patel Chandauli * Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Mirzapur Hon’ble Shri Hardeep Singh Puri Jaunpur * Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Pratapgarh Hon’ble Dr. Mahesh Sharma GB Nagar * Hon’ble Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Fatehpur * Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries Kaushambi Hon’ble General (Retd.) V. K. Singh Muzaafarnagar * Saharanpur Hon’ble Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Rampur * Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Bareilly Hon’ble Shri Raj Nath Singh Lucknow * Minister of Home Affairs. Unnao Hon’ble Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Sitapur-I *

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CSISA-KVK Diagnostic Survey Dr. US Gautam, Director welcomed the chief guest and said that all NICRA KVKs should develop a realistic Training Workshop action plan and perform the work based on vulnerability. In addition to this he also mentioned the problems of Two days training workshop on CSISA-KVK SRF appointment in respect of NDUAT, Faizabad. Diagnostic Survey Training workshop was organised at NDUAT, Faizabad during 7-8 May 2018. Said training On this occasion Dr. JVNS Prasad said that NICRA workshop was inaugurated by Dr. K.N. Singh, Director Project will benefit the farmers in the next two years Research, NDUAT, Faizabad. On this occasion other which are based on different kind of vulnerabilities and dignitaries Dr. A.P. Rao, DE; Dr. R.R. Singh, Prof.; other demonstrations on low cost proven technologies. officials from NDUAT, Faizabad; Dr. Ram Kanwar Total 13 NICRA KVKs namely Kushingar, Pratapgarh, Malik, CIMMYT, India Country Coordinator CSISA Kaushambi, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Gonda, Bahraich, and his team Dr. Arindum, Dr. Ashok, Dr. Ajay and Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Bagpat, Sonbhadra, others were also present. Eight KVKs Heads of Muzaffarnagar and Hamirpur discussed on the Kushinagar, Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, Deoria, Ballia, following topics- Maharajganj, Mau, Siddharthnagar and two officials Crop residue management, Mulching in sugarcane, Zero from ICAR-ATARI participated in this training Tillage, Composite fish culture, Salt tolerant varieties, workshop. In this training, expert mainly focused on Custom Hiring Services, Impact assessment, Successful ODK (Open Data Kit). This is survey based software cases & Innovations, Entrepreneurship development working on Smart Phone. Training was started from and Water Harvesting installation of this software from Google play store. All data entry forms were already developed by CSISA At the end Dr. Atar Singh, Principal Scientist (Agron.) Team. These forms were introduced and modified by gave vote of thanks to all the KVK Heads, Scientists and taking suggestions from Heads of KVKs. Initial points ATARI officials for successful organisation of this for survey work that are WHAT-HOW-WHO-WHEN workshop. was discussed. How survey based data can be worked with excel have been practiced. It was recommended that suvery work should be based on Random Sampling (say Workshop on TSP 20 samples from 800 households). In this training all menus of ODK were introduced. Data input forms was A one day workshop on TSP (Tribal Sub Plan) was practiced. Speed of feedings by participants were also organised at ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur on 26.05.2018. On awarded. In the validation session Dr. J.S. Sandhu, Vice this occasion, Dr. S.K. Dubey, PS (AE), ICAR-ATARI, Chancellor, ND shared his experience and importance of Kanpur welcomed all the participants of TSP KVKs. He this training. He also focussed on increase of cereal crops has emphasised on use of new varieties of wheat such as in eastern U.P. Dr. Sandhu distributed participation PBW 446 in place of PBW 343. He has also made the certificates among all the participants. On this occasion discussion on following topics – Dr. S.K. Dubey, PS(AE), ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur also expressed thanks to the University for organisation of • Demonstraion of Pigeon pea this training workshop successfully. • Use of full package and practices • Use of full budget under TSP • Rainwater harvesting system Review Workshop of NICRA KVKs • Vermicompost • Processing and value addition A one day review workshop of NICRA KVKs was • Solar Pump on the KVK farm organised at ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur on 8.06.2018. On this occasion Dr. JVNS Prasad, Coordinator NICRA, At the end Dr. S.K. Dubey, PS(AE) gave vote of thanks ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad acted as a chief guest of this to all the KVK Heads and scientists. programme. (4) Newsletter

Celebration of 4th International Day of Yoga 21.06.2018

At ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur At KVKs of Uttar Pradesh ourth International Day of Yoga was organised at VKs of Uttar Pradesh celebrated International ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur on 21.06.2018. In this Day of Yoga on 21.06.2018. On this occasion Fprogramme all the officials of ATARI were Kevery staff of KVK gathered at their respective assembled in the conference hall of ATARI at sharp 8:30 centres in the morning and followed and learnt the steps am. Under the guidance of Dr. U.S. Gautam, Director, of yoga. Yogas such as Bhujangasan, Tadasan, ATARI, all the officials learned and did the yoga tricks. Padhastasan, Halasan, Naukasan, Pranayam Suryanamaskar, Pranayams, Bhujagnasan, trikonasan, (Kapalbhati, Bhramri, etc) did by every staff. padhastasan, parvatasan, naukasan etc are the some of yoga techniques did by all the staff. Session was ended at 9:45 am. After the yoga, the staff enjoyed drinking fruit juice.

KVK Allahabad KVK Gonda

KVK Hamirpur KVK Muzaffarnagar

KVK Banda KVK Ghaziabad

KVK Mahoba KVK Saharanpur

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Meeting on Aspirational District Programme

inistry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Aspirational District Programme Government of India has launched a Krishi MKalyan Abhiyan in 111 Aspirational districts he Government of India launched Aspirational of the country. It has been decided to designate Officer District Programme in January 2018 which aims In-charge of the 111 districts. ICAR has nominated 40 Tto quickly and effectively transform some of the officers for overall coordination and field level most underdeveloped districts of the country monitoring of Krishi Kalyan Abhiyan in 40 Aspirational Delta Rankings & Transformation: The purpose of districts. In this regard ICAR-ATARI coordinating 8 Delta rankings is to spur sense of competition among districts namely, Chandauli, Fatehpur, Sidharthnagar, dynamic teams in aspirational districts. It will also serve Sonbhadra, Chitrakoot, Balrampur, Bahraich and as tool to identify sectors and indicator specific Shravasti which are near to ICAR Institutes. In this challenges so that Team India, which is driving regard a meeting with all the KVK heads of Aspirational Transformation of Aspirational Districts programme districts was held on 26.05.2018. at ICAR-ATARI, can take immediate corrective measures. The ranking Kanpur. takes step further and looks into specific aspects of On this occasion Dr. S.K. Dubey, PS (AE) welcomed all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and analyses the participants. Dr. U.S. Gautam, Director ICAR- how districts have performed across important sectors. ATARI also briefed the importance of this meeting and This grouping and positioning will aid District discussed regarding requirement of basic information Magistrates or Collectors to focus more on these and from each Aspirational districts. The information mainly improve their rankings in the future. required - Types of Pulses & Oilseed grown, Implement The programme envisages rapid development of machinery utilized by farmer, Possibility of seed selected districts on basis of composite index based on processing Y/N, Crop, Vermi Composts, Name of five parameters health and nutrition, education financial horticultural crop (mango, guava etc), Agro forestry inclusion, skill development, agriculture and water Plant, Farmers Field school, (Possibilities in these resources and basic infrastructure. It focuses closely on crops), Status of vaccination coverage (regular improving people’s ability to participate fully in /irregular), Status of AI (good/poor), Soil health card, burgeoning economy. It seeks to bring these indicators in (No.), Training status (Good/poor). selected districts at par with the better performing On the basis of these information Delta ranking of districts in the country. district will be decided by NITI Ayog. Meeting ended with vote of thanks by Dr. S.K. Dubey.

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Quarterly Progress Report

Activities Achievement On- Farm Trials Conducted (Nos.) 114 Frontline Demonstrations Conducted (Nos.) 5956 Training of Farmers (in lakh) 0.26 Training of Extension Personnel (in Lakh) 0.021 Participation in Extension Activities (in Lakh) 14.53 Production of Seeds (in tons) 1417.70 Production of Planting materials (in Lakhs) 0.66 Production of livestock strains and fingerlings (in Lakhs) 11.45 Soil and water samples tested (in lakhs) 0.081

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