SOIL TESTING LAB

 

Year of starting 1996-97

 Facilities available

  Soil testing                                           Water testing 

  Leaf/petiole testing                              Fertilizer testing

 

Objectives:

    1.To provide analytical services to farmers

    2.Training cum demonstration units to PF, RY and EF

    3.To promote the adoption of soil & plant testing based fertilizers management techniques

    4.To promote INM practices

    5.Management of problematic soils, water etc.

Sr. No	Particulars	Capacity/ anum	No.of bene. per year	Area benefited (ha) per year	Purpose
1	Soil Testing	1000	750-800	450-500	Fert. Management, soil management
2	Water Testing	300	250-300	200-250	Water management, soil management, crop selection
3	Plant testing	100	150-200	150-200	Grape, Pomegranate, vegetables for higher yield and quality production
4	Fertilizer testing	100	50-75	100-125	Quality of fertilizers

 

Innovations:

• Leaf/petiole testing facilities made available by Krishi Vigyan Kendra first time in district at village level and adoption is more in the commercial crops i.e. grapes 60-70 per cent, pomegranate 35-40 per cent and vegetables/sugarcane is 20-25 per cent.

• Made available soluble fertilizers for fertigation and special spray grades for foliar application.

• Soil testing and Water software developed. Computerized Report system.

• Secondary and Micronutrients testing facilities

 

 

BIO-FERTILIZERS PRODUCTION UNIT

 

Year of starting 1999-2000

 Objectives:

1. To make available the fresh and quality biofertilizers to the farmers
2. Training cum demonstration unit to PF, RY and EF
3. To increase the adoption of biofertilizers
4. To make more popular INM model
5. To improve the physical and biological properties of the soil.

    Bio-fertilizers species, production capacity, beneficiaries  

Sr. No	Biofertilizers	Prod. Capacity/ year	No.of bene/ yr	Area covered (ha)	Purpose
1.	Rhizobium	500 kg	150-175	200-225	Soybean, Red gram Groundnut, Bengal gram
2.	Azatobactor	1000 kg	200-250	150-175	Sugarcane, wheat, vegetable, fruit crops, cotton etc.
3.	Acetobactor	500 kg	100-150	150-200	Sugarcane
4.	Phosphoculture	1500 kg	300-350	250-275	Sugarcane, wheat, cotton, vegetable, fruit crops etc
5. Compost culture		500 Kg	200-250	150-175	Insitu trash composting in ratoon sugarcane Compost pits

Innovations:

• Due to fresh quality biofertilsers made available by KVK the use of biofertilsers has been increases.

• The adoption of rhizobium for soybean is about 60-65 % than the other leguminous crops.

• The use of trash mulching becomes popular in ratoon sugarcane where use of Composting culture for the early decomposition is 70-75 per cent.

• Farmers used the PSB more for vegetables and grapes particularly in the calcareous soil.

• Acetobactor a new species especially for sugarcane.

   

                                                                         

 

 

 

 

VERMICOMPOST PRODUCTION UNIT

 Year of starting –2001-2002

Objectives:

1.Training cum demonstration to PF, RY and EF.

2.To make available the fresh and quality Vermicompost to the farmers

3.To make available the quality vermiculture to the farmers.

4.To increase the adoption of Vermicomposting technology.

5.To reduce the cost on chemical fertilizers

6.To convert the waste crop residues into compost.

 Production capacity and beneficiaries.

Sr. No	Particular	Prod. Capacity/ year	No.of bene/ yr	Area covered (ha)	Purpose
1	Vermicompost	50tons	80-90	25-30	Vermicompost is used especially for fruit and vegetables for quality production and to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers.
2	Vermiculture	60kg	50-60	40 vermicompost units	Farmers started their own vermicompost production units. Some rural youths started as a self-employment business.
3.	Vermiwash	1500lit.	200-225	150-175	Foliar feeding to all the crops as a growth promoter.

Innovations:

• Due to fresh quality vermicompost made available by KVK the use of vermicompost has been increases.
• KVKs intervention through training and demonstration farmers started their own vermicompost units.
• Two farmers club marketing the vermicompost and vermiculture as club activity.
• Eudrillus Eugene spp. becomes popular among the Farmers.
• Vermiwash for foliar spray as a growth promoter.