Inventory of Agriculture 2015
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Inventory of Agriculture 2015 Lower Dibang Valley District Krishi Vigyan Kendra Balek, P.O- Roing Lower Dibang Valley – 792110 Arunachal Pradesh LOWER DIBANG VALLEY DISTRICT Inventory of Agriculture 2015 Krishi Vigyan Kendra Balek, Lower Dibang Valley P.O - Roing Arunachal Pradesh -792110 KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 1 Published by: Krishi Vigyan Kendra Balek, P.O - Roing Lower Dibang Valley Arunachal Pradesh - 792110 Phone: 03803 - 04245 E-mail: [email protected] Compiled by: Toktel Boko Monika Panggam Nanang Tamut Jimmy Mize V.K Pandey Dr. Dipankar Hazarika Habung Monpa Edited by: Dr.T.J Ramesha Contact: Senior Scientist & Head, Krishi Vigyan Kendra Balek, P.O – Roing Lower Dibang Valley Arunachal Pradesh – 792110 Phone: 03803 - 04245 E-mail: [email protected] Word Processing : Habung Monpa KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 2 Preface Ours is an agrarian country with a lot of natural and geographical diversities. Even in this day of industrial advancement, two-third of our population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly for their livelihood. Farmers are still the backbone of our economy and strengthening their position is highly essential and requires paramount importance. Even though we have availability of immense information on agriculture and related aspect of district in various publications, it is unaccess to farmers due to its scattered form. Addition to this there are several modern technologies developed by various agricultural institutions and these technologies are not properly adopted by large number of farming community due to poor sharing of information ..Besides this several programs and schemes are framed by the Governments and these programmes are not reached successfully to grass root level due to lack of awareness among the farming community. The agricultural economy of the country can improve only when modern technologies are largely adopted by the farming community. It is also noted that the farmers are unaware about the various institutions and organizations engaged in agricultural research and development activities in their own localities. Hence realizing the problems faced by farming communities in accessing information on agricultural programmes, schemes and other related aspects, this Inventory of Agriculture of Lower Dibang Valley District developed by our esteemed organization is expected to be useful to policy planners, farmers and all those who are concerned with development of Agriculture and related fields of the district. In this publication, we have attempted to compile all the available information on various developmental organizations relevant to the district’s agriculture. We have also provided the services and schemes offered by the organizations along with addresses for communication. We are fully aware about the importance of updating the contents periodically to include changes that are likely to happen due to policy changes. We assure to include any information that might have been omitted in the present compilation in our future versions of the publication. The authors place on record their sincere gratitude to all the staff of KVK, Lower Dibang Valley, who have directly or indirectly contributed to publication of this compilation in the present form. We express our sincere thanks to the developmental departments i.e District Agriculture Officer, District AH & Vety Officer, District KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 3 Horticulture Officer, District Fishery Development Officer, District Statistic Officer .Field Officer, Spices Board India and other officials for providing required information. We dedicate this publication to the farming community of our district and suggestions are invited from different stakeholders for further improvement. Lower Dibang Valley Editors KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 4 Contents I. District in General 8 a. Climate 10 b. Topography 10 c. Forests 12 d. Water resources 13 e. Ports 13 f. Demography 13 g. Culture and Education 14 h. Health care sector 15 i. Banking and Allied sector 15 j. Local bodies and Rural development 15 II. Agricultural Scenario of the District 16 a. Crops 16 b. Livestock 18 c. Fisheries 19 III. Constraints in Agricultural Production 20 a. Crops 20 b. Livestock 21 c. Fisheries 21 IV. Institutional Support for Agricultural Development of the District a. Crops 22 1. Department of Agriculture 22 2. Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Lower Dibang Valley 24 3. Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) 28 4. Lead Bank 29 5. Other banking institutions 29 KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 5 6. Farmers clubs and Voluntary organizations 29 7. Polytechnic colleges and Vocational higher secondary Schools 29 b. Livestock 30 1. Department of Animal Husbandry 30 2. Department of Dairy Development 30 3. Poultry Development Centre 30 c. Fisheries 1. Department of Fisheries 31 V. Research and Development Organization Relevant to Districts Agriculture a. Crops b. livestock VI. Plans and Schemes for Promotion of Agriculture a. Crops 1. Centrally Sponsored schemes 32 2. Spices Board 33 b. Livestock 34 c. Fisheries 34 VII. Farm Machinery Suitable to the District a. Multiple Crop Thresher 35 b. Drum Seeder 36 c. Post Hole Digger 37 d. Tractor Operated Seed cum Fertilizer Driller 37 e. Rotary Tiller 38 f. Laser Guided Leveller 38 VIII. Annexure 1. Telephone Directory of Agriculture and related Departments/ Offices 39 2. Telephone Directory of SHG Groups/Farmers Club 40 3. Telephone Directory of Progressive Farmers 41 KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 6 List of Figures Fig.1 a. Location of Lower Dibang Valley District 8 Fig.1 b. Location of Lower Dibang Valley district 9 Fig.2. Percent of land area under different categories in Lower Dibang Valley District 16 List of Tables Table 1. Climate of Lower Dibang Valley District 10 Table 2. Details of forests of Lower Dibang Valley District 12 Table 3. Population and literacy figures in Lower Dibang Valley District 13 Table 4. Land use pattern of Lower Dibang Valley District 16 Table 5. Area, production, Productivity of major crops in Lower Dibang Valley District 17 Table 6. Production and productivity including poultry in Lower Dibang Valley District 18 Table 7. Factors affecting productivity of major crops in Lower Dibang Valley District 20 KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 7 CHAPTER – I. DISTRICT IN GENERAL Lower Dibang Valley District, the 15th district of Arunachal Pradesh is located in the Eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh. The district is bounded on the North by Dibang Valley District and China, on the East Lohit District, and on the west East Siang and Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh and on the south Sadiya Sub-division of Tinsukia district, Assam state. The Lower Dibang Valley named after River Dibang, one of the tributaries of mighty River Brahmaputra, which flows in the district. The district has three sub-division viz. Roing, Dambuk and Hunli and 6 (six) administrative circles namely, Hunli, Desali, Dambuk, Paglam, Koronu and Roing. Fig.1 a. Location of Lower Dibang Valley District KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 8 Fig.1 b. Location of Lower Dibang Valley District KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 9 A. Climate: The district has a sub-tropical climate. The district experiences very heavy rainfall from March to August. Total rainfall recorded at Roing is 6642.32 mm during 2012. The lower belt of the district experience hot climate in summer. The northern belt of the district i.e. Desali and Hunli circle, enjoy very moderate climate during summer and extreme cold during winter. Table 1. Climate of Lower Dibang Valley District Sl. Agro-climatic Characteristics No Zone 1 Sub – tropical The Climate is characterized by hot summer and moderately cool Plain Zone winter. The mean annual rainfall varies from 2590 – 3390mm and it exceeds PET greater part of the year and soil remains dry only for a month or so. Mean annual soil temperature is 220 C or higher. 2. Mid tropical Hill The climate is characterized by mild summer and moderate to Zone severe winter. The mean annual rainfall ranges between 2000 to 5000 mm and it exceeds PET for most part of the year. The mean annual soil temperature varies from 18 to 220C. Source : District Statistical Office, Lower Dibang Valley B. Topography: The northern part of it falls within higher mountain zone consisting of tangle peak and valley. The foot hills range lies in the southern part having plain with low altitudes. The area under Roing, Koronu, Dambuk and Paglam Circles are plain land, whereas the area under Desali and Hunli circles are hilly terrain with rugged and steep slopes. Latitude Longitude Altitude Geographical Area 27’30’N to 28’33’N 95’15’E to 96’30’E 390 mtrs. 39000 sqkm KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 10 I. Soil type: Sl. No Soil type Characteristics Area in ha 1. Soils of undulating upland Moderately shallow 4715 to deep, dell drained, loamy or coarse loamy in texture with moderate to severe erosion hazards. The soils are strongly to moderately acidic in nature (pH 4.5 to 7.2), rice in organic matter (0.8 to 5.2% organic carbon) which decline sharply with depth. CEC is low to medium 93.5 to 23.3 CmolP+kg-1). Base saturation is very low to medium. Appreciable amount of Al3+ is observed. 2. Soils of gentle slopes Deep, well to 11779 imperfectly drained, fine/ fine loamy/ coarse loamy or coarse silty with moderate erosion and slight to moderate flood hazard. Soils are moderately to slightly acidic (pH 4.6-5.8) and KVK – Lower Dibang Valley Page 11 moderate to high in organic matter content (1.3-3.7% organic carbon). 3. Soils of level to nearly level flood plain Deep, well to 7073 moderately well drained, coarse loamy to coarse silty with moderate flood hazard. Soils on channel bars are moderately shallow, excessively drained and sandy in texture. Soils are slightly acidic to alkaline in nature (pH 5.5-8.4), high in base saturation C.