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1 TAMIL nadu AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA CUDDALORE TAMIL nadu , INDIA 19th Scientific Advisory Committee (2014-15) ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROGRESS REPORT 1. General information about the KVK Name of the KVK : Krishi Vigyan Kendra Vriddhachalam, Cuddalore District Postal address of KVK : Krishi Vigyan Kendra Vriddhachalam - 606 001 Cuddalore District TAMIL nadu Telephone/ Fax/ E mail/ Website of KVK : Telephone number - 04143-238353 Fax - 04143-238353 E mail - Website - Name of Host organization : TAMIL nadu AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Postal address of Host organization : TAMIL nadu AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Coimbatore 641 003 Telephone/ Fax/ E mail/ Website of Host organization : Telephone number : 0422 2431222 Fax : 0422 - 2431672 E mail : Website : Year of sanction : ICAR - F. No. 22 (17)/83 KVK dt of the Deputy Director General, (AE), ICAR, New Delhi Professor and Head Dr.

2 S. Jeeva, Programme Coordinator : Dr. , Total land with KVK : 20 ha 2. KVK Mandate Conducting On Farm Testing (OFT) to identify the location specificity of AGRICULTURAL technologies in terms of location specific sustainable land use under various farming systems. Organizing Front Line Demonstrations (FLD) to establish production potential of various crops and enterprises on the farmer's field to generate production data and feedback information. Organizing need based training to farmers to update their knowledge and skills in modern AGRICULTURAL technologies related to technology assessment, refinement and demonstration, and training of extension personnel with emerging advances in AGRICULTURAL research on regular basis, to orient them in the frontier areas of technology development. Organizing short term and long term vocational training courses in agriculture and allied vocations for the farmers, farm women, rural youths and self help groups with emphasis on learning by doing for higher production on farms and generating self employment.

3 Creating awareness about improved technologies to larger masses through appropriate extension programmes. Production and supply of good quality seeds and planting materials, livestock, poultry and fisheries breeds and various bio-products to the farming community. Work as resource and knowledge centre of AGRICULTURAL technology for supporting initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector for improving the AGRICULTURAL economy of the district Providing farm advisory services 3. Staff Position (as 31st March 2014) Sl. No. Sanctioned post Name of the incumbent Designation M/F Discipline Highest Qualification Pay Scale Basic pay Date of joining KVK Permanent /Temporary Category (SC/ST/ OBC/ Others) 1 Professor and Head (AICRIP Cashew Scheme) Dr. S. Jeeva Professor and Head F Horticulture 37400-67000-10000 (GP) 59950 Permanent OBC 2 Programme Coordinator Professor M AGRICULTURAL Extension Ph. D 37400-67000-10000 (GP) 59950 Permanent OBC 3 SMS (Home Science) Assistant Professor M Home Science Ph.

4 D 15600-39100-8000(GP) 35630 Permanent SC 4 SMS (Animal Husbandry) Dr. M. Malarkodi Assistant Professor F Soil Science & 15600-39100-7000 (GP) 29830 Permanent OBC 5 SMS ( AGRICULTURAL Engineering) Assistant Professor M Pl. Pathology Ph. D 15600-39100-7000(GP) 29830 Permanent OBC 6 SMS (Plant Protection/ Agro Forestry) geetha Assistant Professor F Seed Science & Technology Ph. D 15600-39100-6000(GP) 27990 Permanent OBC 7 SMS (Agronomy) Dr. K. Venkatalakshmi Assistant Professor F Agronomy 15600-39100-6000(GP) 27990 Permanent OBC 8 SMS (Horticulture) Vacant 9 Programme Assistant ( Lab Tech.) Programme Assistant (Lab Tech.) F Horticulture (Agri) 9300-34800-4400 (GP) 14990 Permanent SC 10 Programme Assistant (Computer) Programme Assistant (Computer) M Computer Science 9300-34800-4400 (GP) 16980 Permanent OBC 11 Programme Assistant/ Farm Manager Mr. R. Rajeshkannan Farm Manager M Horticulture (Agri) 9300-34800-4400 (GP) 17490 Permanent OBC 12 Superintendent cum Accountant Th.

5 P. Mohandoss Administrative Officer M - 15600-39100- 5400 (GP) 22280 Permanent SC 13 Jr. Stenographer Mrs. T. Suganthi Rani Superintendent F - XII 9300-34800-4800 (GP) 16680 Permanent SC 14 Driver Th. C. Jayabal Driver M - XI 9300-34800- 4400 (GP) 18390 Permanent OBC 15 Driver Driver cum Mechanic M - X 5200-20200- 2400(GP) 10310 Permanent OBC 16 Supporting staff (Office Assistant) Th. A. Deivasigamani Office Assistant M - XII 4800-10000- 1300(GP) 6680 Probationer OBC 17 Supporting staff (PUSM) Th. P. Narayanasami PUSM M - 4800-10000- 1300(GP) 9320 Permanent OBC 4. SAC Members Scientific Advisory Committee has been formed under the leadership of the Honorable Vice-Chancellor, TNAU, Coimbatore to review achievements made by this KVK and to give suggestions for the future action plan. The list of SAC members is furnished below. A. President : The Vice-Chancellor TAMIL nadu AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Coimbatore 641 003 B.

6 Members: 1. The Zonal Project Director Zonal Project Directorate - Zone VIII MRS, Farm Post Hebbal, Bangalore - 560 024 2. The Director of Extension Education TAMIL nadu AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Coimbatore 641 003 3. The Director of Extension Education, TAMIL nadu Veterinary and Animal Science UNIVERSITY , Chennai - 600 051 4. The Director , National Research Center on Banana, 40, Ramalinga Nagar, Vayalur road, Trichy 620 017 5. The Joint Director of Agriculture, Gundusalai, Semmandalam, Cuddalore 607 001 6. The Deputy Director (Horticulture), Gundusalai, Semmandalam, Cuddalore 607 001 7. The Regional Joint Director (Animal Husbandry), Veterinary Hospital campus, Cuddalore 607 001 8. The Executive Engineer, Agriculture Engineering , 1A, Beach road, Cuddalore 607 001 9. The Regional Manager, TAMIL nadu Forest Plantation Corporation Limited, 10, Chidambaram Iyer Street, Villupuram-605 602 10. The Asst. Director of Sericulture, Ezhuchatram road, Vazhudhareddy, Villupuram-605 602 11.

7 The Director Small Scale Industries Development Agency Subburayalu nagar, Thiruppathirippuliyur Cuddalore district. 12. The Assistant Director of Fisheries, Boothakeni, Chidambaram Taluk, Cuddalore district 13. The Assistant General Manager, NABARD Bank, Cuddalore 14. The District Social Welfare Officer, 89, Pudhupalayam Main Road, Cuddaore 607 001 15. The Regional Manager, Indian Bank, Jawans Bhavan, 1st floor, Lawrence road, Cuddalore 607 002 16. The Station Director, All India Radio, Indra Nagar, Pudhucherry. 17. The Director, Door Dharshan Kendra, Chennai 18. Thiru. R. Narayanasamy S/o. P. Rangasamy 1st street, Pudukkooraipet Vridhachalam (TK), Cuddalore 606 001 19. Thiru. K. Kumaraguru S/o. Kaliyaperumal Karuppanchavadi, Krishnakuppam (po) Cuddalore (Tk&Dt) 607 301 20. Mrs. G. Bala W/o. Gurunathan Puliyar (po), Vridhachalam (Tk) Cuddalore district 21. Mrs. N. Suganthi W/o. Nagarajan C8, Thangi street, Circle 11 Neyvely 1, Cuddalore district 5.

8 Action taken on the recommendations given during 18th SAC meeting held on Sl. No. Salient Recommendations Recommended by Action taken 1. Location specific and need based interventions have to be made by the KVK especially in the major crops like ground nut, gingelly, rice and sugarcane. Honourable Vice-Chancellor, TNAU This KVK laid various OFTs, FLDs and trainings on major crops like rice, groundnut, gingelly and sugarcane in the region during the year 2013-14. The interventions include newly released varieties and technologies on crop management and crop protection. OFTs on the assessment of drought mitigation technologies and rice varieties suitable for salt affected soils were conducted during 2013-14. FFS on integrated nutrient management in sugarcane was conducted successfully at Vijayamanagaram village. OFT on the assessment of drought tolerant groundnut varieties for Cuddalore district and demonstration of chisel ploughing to break the subsoil hardening in groundnut growing areas are the ongoing programmes to increase the productivity of groundnut crop.

9 2. Formulate an OFT on Assessment of suitable cropping pattern utilizing farm ponds both - lined and unlined conditions. Honourable Vice-Chancellor, TNAU Five OFTs were conducted at Athiyanallur, Thatchakadu and villages during 2013-14. Among the five farm ponds, one pond is lined with high density polyethylene sheet to avoid the percolation, seepage and infiltration losses. The cropping systems like direct seeded paddy rice fallow pulses and groundnut + pulses (4:1) were raised for identifying the suitable cropping pattern utilizing the harvested rain water in farm pond. The results showed that the rice equivalent yield is higher under groundnut + pulses (5840 kg/ha). Highest net return (Rs. 60455/-) and the highest WUE ( kg/ha-m3) were recorded under direct seeded paddy + rice fallow pulse cropping system. 3. Include marketing avenues in all the interventions made by the KVK. The Zonal Project Director, Bangalore This KVK giving trainings and technology advisories to the farmers along with modern technologies on value addition and marketing strategies During 2013-14, 11 market based vocational trainings were conducted.

10 An awareness training programme on the formation of flower commodity group was conducted on at this KVK. Dr. M. Selvam, Executive Director, AGRICULTURAL Marketing Intelligence and Trade Management Centre, Trichy participated in this programme and delivered the special lecture. On campus training on Marketing avenues has been conducted on at this KVK to promote flower production and marketing in Cuddalore district. Twenty five leading flower growers were taken to the successful flower commodity groups at Erode and Sathiyamangalam on through exposure visit. One Cuddalore district commercial flower growers welfare association has been registered under Govt. Of TAMIL nadu . As recommended by the UNIVERSITY , the marketing information were being sent as mobile advisory through KMAS of ICAR (SMS) to the farming community. 4. Involve progressive farmers and self help groups in the SAC meeting.