ICAR - KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, VIRINJIPURAM, VELLORE Annual Report 2015 - 16 PART I - GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE KVK 1.1 Name and address of KVK with phone, fax and e-mail KVK Address Telephone E mail Web Address Office Fax Krishi Vigyan Kendra (0416) (0416) kvkvrinjipuram@ www.kvkvellore.org Virinjipuram – 632 104 2914453 2273221 tnau.ac.in Vellore district Tamil Nadu 1.2 Name and address of host organization with phone, fax and e-mail Address Telephone E mail Web Address Office Fax Tamil Nadu Agricultural University 0422 - 0422 - registrar@ www.tnau.ac.in Coimbatore – 641 003, Tamil Nadu. 6611201 2431821 tnau.ac.in 1.3. Name of the Programme Coordinator with phone & mobile No Name Telephone / Contact Residence Mobile Email Dr. S. Joshua Davidson, Ph.D., 9489804410 9489804410 [email protected] 1.4. Year of sanction : 2004 1 1.4. Staff Position (as May 2016) S. Sanctioned Name of the Designation M Discipline Highe Pay Basic Date of Perma Cate N post incumbent / st Scale pay joining nent gory o F Quali KVK /Temp ficati orary on 1 Programme Dr.S.Joshua Programme M Agrl. Ph.D., 15600- 35700 2.12.04 Perman OBC Coordinator Davidson Coordinator Engg. 39100 ent +8000 AGP 2 SMS Dr.V.Sendhilvel Assistant M Plant Ph.D., 15600- 29830 13.12.12 Perman OBC Professor pathology 39100 ent (Plant +7000 pathology) AGP 3 SMS Dr.Noorjehan Assistant F Agrl Ph.D., 15600- 29830 10.04.15 Perman OBC AKA Hanif Professor Extn. 39100 ent (Agrl.Extn.) +7000 AGP 4 SMS Dr.B.K.Savitha Assistant F Horti Ph.D., 15600- 15600 08.04.15 Perman OBC Professor culture 39100 ent (Horti.) +6000 AGP 5 SMS Dr.P.Veeramani Assistant M Agronom Ph.D., 15600- 15600 16.04.15 Perman OBC Professor y 39100 ent (Agronomy) +6000 AGP 6 SMS Dr.K.P.Sivaku Assistant M Home Ph.D., 15600- 15600 19.07.14 Perman OBC mar Professor Science 39100 ent (Home +6000 Science) AGP 7 SMS Dr.M.Ramasam Assistant M Veterinar Ph.D., 15600- 15600 27.08.14 Perman SC y Professor y and 39100 ent (Veterinary Animal +6000 and Animal Science AGP Science) 8 Programme Mr.K.R.Sriniva Programme M Agricultur M.Sc. 9300- 15440 24.2.11 Perman OBC Assistant san Assistant al , 34800 ent ( Lab (Technical) Extension +4400 GP Tech.)/T-4 9 Programme Mrs.S.Sangee Programme F Computer M.C. 9300- 17490 05.12.08 Perman OBC Assistant tha Assistant Science A., 34800 ent (Computer)/ (Computer) +4400 GP T-4 10 Programme Vacant from 23.08.13 Assistant/ Farm Manager 11 Accountant Tmt.R.Krishna Superintende F - - 9300- 20390 15.04.04 Perman OBC cum veni nt 34800 ent superintend +4800 GP ent 12 Jr. Steno Mrs.G.Banu Superintende F - - 9300- 16810 01.12.08 Perman OBC grapher mathi nt 34800 ent +4800 GP 13 Driver Mr.Kumaran Driver M - - 5200- 12500 09.05.13 Perman OBC 20200+ ent 2400 GP 14 Driver Th.G.Babusamy Supervisor M - - 9300- 14280 20.8.07 Perman OBC 34800+ ent 4200 15 Supporting Tn.N.Vijaya Office M - - 4800- 7320 10.06.14 Perman OBC staff babu Assistant 10000+13 ent 00 16 Supporting Tmt.A.Valliam PUSM F - - 4800- 8840 04.05.04 Perman OBC staff mal 10000 ent +1300 GP 2 1.6. Total land with KVK (in ha) : 24.15 ha. S. No. Item Area (ha) 1 Under Buildings 0.8 2. Under Demonstration Units 2.0 3. Under Crops 6.0 4. Orchard/Agro-forestry 7.0 5. Others 8.35 1.7. Infrastructural Development: A) Buildings Stage S. Complete Incomplete Name of Source of N Plinth Starti Plinth Status of building funding Completion Expendit o. area ng area construc Date ure (Rs.) (Sq.m) Date (Sq.m) tion 1. Administrative ICAR-KVK July, 2007 570 45,20,000 - - - Building 2. Farmers Hostel ICAR-KVK July, 2007 285 31,00,000 - - - 3. Staff Quarters - - - 1. SMS ICAR-KVK July, 2007 - - - 2. SMS ICAR -KVK July, 2007 - - - 3. SMS ICAR -KVK July, 2007 - - - 486 36,00,000 4. SMS ICAR-KVK July, 2007 - - - 5. SMS ICAR-KVK July, 2007 - - - 6. SMS ICAR-KVK July, 2007 - - - 4. Demonstration - - - Units 1.Shade net and Drip ICAR-KVK Oct, 2007 2 ha. 2,00,000 - - - irrigation system 5. Fencing - - - - - - - 6. Rain Water harvesting - - - - - - - system 7. Threshing - - - - - - - floor 8. Farm godown - - - - - - - B) Vehicles Type of vehicle Year of Cost (Rs.) Total kms. Present status purchase Run Jeep (TN 23 AA 4924) 2004 4,88,682 172162 Met with an accident on 27.09.2009. Needs replacement with a new vehicle. Tractor (TN 23 AA 7655) 2005 4,93,716 4357 Working condition Motor Bike 2006 38,781 Good condition 45236 (TN 23 AB 8345) Motor Bike 2009 41,976 Good condition 43973 (TN 23 AF 9661) 3 C) Equipments & AV aids Name of the Year of Cost (Rs.) Present status equipment purchase Photocopier 2005 74,500 Good condition Computer with 2005 75,000 Good condition Accessories LCD 2007 53,000 Good condition Computer (Desktop) 2007 47,000 Good condition Generator 3KVA 2011 91,089 Good condition Camera 2011 24,300 Good condition 1.8. Details SAC meeting conducted in 2013-14 : 06.08.2013 S. Date Number of No. Salient Action taken No Participan of Recommendations ts absen tees 1. 06.08.13 35 - Village youth may be Skill training on mechanical trained on farm paddy transplanter and raised equipments/ machineries bed tray nursery to rural youth in Collaboration with was organized and conducted at Dept. of Agrl. Durgam Village in collaboration Engineering. Dry with Dept of Agrl. Engg, method of paddy seed Vellore. A total of 16 youths sowing in trays may be were trained and named as Green experimented. Army. At present, Green Army is providing custom hiring service at four blocks of Vellore District. Raised dry bed paddy seed nursery for transplanter was demonstrated at Sirukarumbur village and the germination of seedlings raised in dry-bed were observed to be late establishment, uneven height and poor root growth where clods in the dry-bed. The germination rate was 71 % . Primed seeds germinated faster than fresh dry seeds 2. 06.08.13 35 - Zero till seed drill may Zero till fertilizer seed drill in be demonstrated in black gram was demonstrated farmers field to 10 farmers from Sakkaramallur, Mudinampet, Vadavirinjipuram and Kamarajapuram under FLD programme 2013-2014. 289 phone calls were received when the xero-till ferti seed drill demonstration was aired through Makkal TV. 4 S. Date Number of No. Salient Action taken No Participan of Recommendatio ts absen ns tees 3. 06.08.13 35 - Horizontal spread The horizontal spread of CO(CN) 4 fodder of Cumbu Napier grass cultivation was recorded as 480 hybrid grass in hectares across Vellore District and about Vellore Dt. may 256 farmers purchased rooted slips from the be assessed. KVK FLD farmers. The KVK FLD farmers viz Thiru. Domotharan from Velleri village and Mrs.Kala from karugamputhur sold 1,25,300 rooted slips to ATMA farmers in Gudiyahtam and K.V.Kuppam block of Vellore District. Horizontal spread of Cumbu Napier grass is assessed through Department of Animal Husbandry, at present in Vellore district more than 2350 ha occupied by Cumbu Napier grass. 4. 06.08.13 35 - Grafting in The grafting technique has been tried at the Solanum torvum farm for the development of perennial brinjal (Sundaikai) plant plant. Initially, S.torvum was used as a may be learnt rootstock and VRM-1 Brinjal as a scion from TNAU, material. There was no compatibility in Coimbatore for grafting union. The second time grafting was developing tried with S.torvum as rootstock with the perennial brinjal crossed material of Spiny x Non-Spiny plant brinjal. Out of 100 grafted plants, 10 plants were survived. The grafting success percentage was 10%. Particulars Scion material N VRM-1 Hybrid o Spiny derivative of brinjal Spiny x Non- spiny brinj al 1 No. of grafts 200 200 attended 2 Grafting - 10 Success percentage 5. 06.08.13 35 - Mango Training on ‘Grafting technique in mango’ approach/soft was conducted. wood grafting S. Date Title No of may be done and No particip ants distributed to 1. 28.11.201 Training on Mango 32 farmers 3 propagation and cultivation 2. 10.06.201 Propagation 26 4 techniques in Mango Banganapalli variety mango seedlings were produced by approach grafting techniques and 457 seedlings were distributed to farmers during the training programme. 5 S. Date Number of No. of Salient Action taken No Participant absen Recommendations s tees 6. 06.08.13 35 - Problematic Aonla A team of scientists from IIHR, trees at farmer’s field Bangalore, Department of Fruit Crops, in Kaniyambadi may TNAU along with KVK Scientists also be assessed and inspected the problematic Amla field. recommendation may The team recommended that the be made recommended dose of fertilizer alone is sufficient and also suggested that to stop the excess irrigation. 7. 06.08.13 35 - A trial may be Front line demonstration on conducted to reclaim ”Demonstration of Ragi variety CO15 in tannery polluted land the tannery polluted site” was conducted of using sesbania, at 10 places in and around the ragi and pressmud Walajahpet and Ranipet. Under this FLD, vermicompost and manure were applied in the tannery polluted sites @ 6 tonnes/ha to reduce the intensity of Cr(VI) toxicity on Ragi crops. Before the initiation of the FLD, soil and water samples were collected from the farmers field, the soil had 55.37mg/kg of Cr(VI) and the water had 0.61mg/L of Cr(VI).The soil samples were also collected from the field after the completion of the FLD and the soil had 42.91 mg/kg of Cr(VI).