Agriculture one liner-04

Agriculture one liner-04

 ICAR Awards: 

a)     Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Extension work

b)    **NASI-ICAR Farm implements

c)     **Haldhar award- Organic Farming

d)    Lalbahadur sastry Award Young scientist award

e)     Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award Outstanding Research in Agril. & allied Sciences

f)      Fakruddin ali ahmed- Outstanding Research in Tribal areas

g)     Chaudhary Devi Lal Outstanding AICRP award

h)    Sardar Vallabhai Patel award Outstanding ICAR institute award

i)       **Punjab rao deshmukh Outstanding Woman Scientist Award

j)       Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Krishi Vigyan Puraskar Best KVK

k)     *King Baudoin International Prize Green Revolution

l)       Jawaharlal Nehru Award Outstanding Doctoral thesis research in agricultural and allied sciences

m)  Dr. Rajendra puraskar Technical bulletins in Hindi

n)    NG Ranga Award Diversified agriculture

o)    Jagjivan ram Puraskar Innovative farmer

p)    Subramanyam award Outstanding teacher

q)    Chaudhary Charan Singh Award Excellence in Journalism in Agricultural Research and Development

r)      Vasantrao Naik award Outstanding research and application in

s)      Dry land farming

 

Varieties released by ICAR; Biofortified and Other Imp. Varieties (Imp)

 

     i.             ** Climate Smart Varieties developed by NRRI, Cuttack - CR Dhan 801 & CR Dhan 802 (which are tolerant to both submergence and drought and few biotic stresses to face the challenges of climate change.)

 

   ii.             Two superior chickpea varieties developed for the first time by using Genomics AssistedBreeding is - “Pusa Chickpea-10216” and “Super Annigeri (Note: Pusa Chickpea 10216 developed by ICAR- IARI in collaboration with the ICRISAT.

 

 iii.            Super Annigeri 1” has been developed by UAS, Raichur (Karnataka) and in collaboration with ICRISAT.

 

 

 iv.             New Blockbuster wheat variety developed by IARI with high yield and protein content is- HD 3226 or Pusa Yashasvi

 

   v.             India’s first high oleic acid groundnut varieties developed by ICAR-DGR, Junagadh is– Girnar 4(ICGV 15083) & Girnar 5 (ICGV 15090)

 

 

 vi.             Anti Oxidant rich Purple Potato Variety developed by CPRI, Shimla is- Kufri Neelakanth

 

vii.             Latest Wheat Variety developed by ICAR for irrigated timely sown conditions of NE Plains is - Karan Vandana (DBW-187)

 

 

viii.             Outstanding Forage Hybrid released in 2019 for revolutionizing forage sorghum production in India is- CSH-24 (developed by GPBUAT & ICRISAT)

 

 ix.             ** Protein rich rice varieties - CR Dhan 310 & CR Dhan 311

 

 

   x.             Pigeon pea -PUSA Arhar 16 (determinate, extra early maturity, 120 days)

 

 xi.             Wonder variety of Sugarcane- Co-0238 (First wonder cane variety Co-205)

 

 

xii.             *BT cotton varieties developed by PAU is : F1861, PAU Bt 1(for cultivation in Punjab & Haryana)

 

xiii.             *BT cotton variety developed by Rajasthan Agril. University is- RS2013

 

 

xiv.             Quality Protein Maize (QPM) -PUSA Breakfast Cereal

 

xv.             First Hybrid variety of Tobacco in India is- GTH-1

 

 

xvi.             Low neuro toxin varieties of grass pea is -Rattan, Nirmal, Prateek

 

xvii.             Marigold-PusaBahar

 

 

xviii.             *Spineless variety of Safflower- NARI-6

 

xix.             First ever short duration Moong (< 60 days)- Virat (IPM 205-7)

 

 

xx.             BLB of rice disease resistant variety-PUSA 1592, Punjab Basmati-3

 

xxi.             Blast disease resistant rice variety-PUSA 109

 

 

xxii.             Nematode resistant variety of papaya- Pusa Majesty

 

xxiii.             Day neutral and spineless variety of Okra- Pusa Sawani

 

 

xxiv.             Black Variety of Carrot- Pusa Asita

 

xxv.             World earliest maturity variety of cotton genotype was identified by CICR scientist (2017) - Variety name: Yugank

 

 

Crop Biofortified Variety

**Rice

 

Ø CR Dhan 310 –Protein rich variety)

 

Ø CR Dhan 311 (Mukul)- Rich in Protein & Zinc, suitable for rainfed shallow lowland & medium land.

 

 

Ø Zinco Rice MS Rich in Zinc (27.4 PPM) Highest Zinc Rich

 

Ø DRR Dhan 45 –zinc rich variety)

 

 

Wheat

 

Ø WB 02 (Zinc & Iron rich variety)

Ø Pusa Tejas (HI 8759) durum (Rich in protein, Iron & Zinc, suitable

Ø irrigated timely sown conditions.

Ø HPBW 01 (Iron & Zinc rich variety)

 

Maize

 

Ø **Pusa Vivek QPM9 – Provitamin-A, lysine &  tryptophan rich hybrid)

Ø Pusa HM8 Improved (lysine & tryptophan rich hybrid)

Ø Pusa HM9 Improved (lysine & tryptophan rich hybrid)

Ø Pearl millet HHB 299 (iron & zinc rich hybrid)

Ø AHB 1200 (iron rich hybrid)

Ø Lentil Pusa Ageti Masoor (iron rich variety)

 

Ø **Mustard:- Pusa Mustard 30- low erucic acid variety ; (<2% erucic acid)

 

Ø                 Ø **Pusa Double Zero Mustard 31- low erucic acid & low glucosinolate variety

Ø                 Ø Cauliflower Pusa Beta Kesari 1 (β-carotene rich variety)

 

Ø                 Ø **Sweet Potato Bhu Krishna (anthocyanin rich variety)

 

 

Ø           Ø   Potato Bhu Sona (β-carotene rich variety)

 

Ø            Ø  Pomegranate Solapur Lal (Iron, zinc & vitamin-C rich variety)

 

 

Ø         Ø **Tomato **Arka Rakshak- India’s first Triple disease resistant (Leaf curl, Bacterial wilt & early blight) F1 Hybrid

Ø     (Note: Cereals are deficient in “Lysine” amino acid, Pulses are deficient in “Methionine”)

 

Ø    Ø  Swarna Vaideh- first ever variety of Makhana was developed and releasedby ICAR.

 

Ø        Ø Virat- Early maturing Summer Mungbean

 

 

Ø     Ø  Pusa Arhar 16- dwarf pigeon pea, Short duration (120 day redgram variety

 

Ø(Miracle red gram variety)

 

Ø        Ø  Co-0238 (Karan 4) - Wonder variety of sugar cane, released by Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Regional Centre, Karnal.

 

Ø         Ø Pusa rudhira is an improved variety of-Carrot Antioxidant rich, red coloured Okra variety developed by IIVR, Varanasi- Kashi lalima

 

 

Ø         Ø An Arsenic resistant high yielding, thin aromatic rice variety is- Muktoshri (W.B.)

 

Ø       Ø   New Potato Varieties for Table Purpose- Kufri Neelkanth, Kufri Mohan, Kufri Ganga & Kufri Lima.

 

Popular Mega Varieties of ICAR

 

Ø Rice Variety- Pusa Basmati 1121 (Breeder: Dr. Vijaypal Singh) Superior cooking and grainquality. The variety is extremely popular in foreign market and by way of  export earned total of Rs.92117 crore during 2014-19.

 

Ø Sugar Cane Variety - Co-0238 (wonder cane variety) (Breeder: Dr.Bakshi Ram) Unique sugar variety with average sugar recovery of about 11.5 to 12%.

 

Wheat variety HD 2967 (Breeder Dr.K.V. Prabhu)

largely sown wheat variety Cultivated in a area about 10

million ha (1/3rd area of total area of the country). The highest ever demand of breeder seed for a single variety in Indian agriculture

 

ICAR Programmes:

 

a.     National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), 2011- is a network project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched in - February, 2011.

Three components: Strategic research, Demonstration & Capacity Building

 

b.     AGRI UDAAN, 2017- Food and agribusiness Accelerator Start up Programme 2.0, launched by ICAR’s NAARM in collaboration with IIM-Ahmadabad in- August, 2017

 

c.      **ARYA- Attracting and Retaining Youth in Agriculture, July, 2015 To attract and empower the Youth in Rural Areas and to prevent migration of youth from rural to urban areas, to take up various Agriculture, allied sector enterprises for sustainable income and gainful employment in agriculture.

 

 

d.     *READY- Rural and Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana- July, 2015. To promote entrepreneurial skills among agril.students. It will provide an opportunity for the students to learn and understand agricultural practices in collaboration with farmers.

 

e.     Mera Gaon-Mera Gaurav, July,2015: To enhance the direct interface of scientists with farmers which will hasten the lab to land approach. Under this scheme, groups of scientists will select villages and will remain in touch

 

f.       Farmer FIRST, ARYA, Mera Gaon-Mera Gaurav, Mridaparikshak programmes implemented through KVKs with that village and provide required information, knowledge and advisories to farmers on regular basis.

 

g.     Farmer FIRST: Farmer’s Farm, Innovations, Resources, Science and Technology (FIRST), July, 2015 ‘Farmer FIRST’ is an ICAR initiative “to move beyond the production and productivity and to privilege the complex, diverse & risk prone realities of majority of the farmers through enhancing farmers-scientists contact with multi stake holdersparticipation. The focus is on Farmer’s Farm, Innovations, Resources, Science and Technology (FIRST).

 

 

h.     National Agriculture Higher Education Project- Sep, 2017 Funded by: World Bank, Implemented by: ICAR To provide relevant and better quality higher education to students.

 

i.        Mridaparikshak- July, 2015 A Mobile mini soil testing lab for distributing Soil health cards to farmers.

 

 

j.       KIRAN (Knowledge Innovation Repository of Agriculture in North East)- 2012

 

List of Awardees in Agriculture sector 2018-19:

 

     i.             The First World Agriculture Prize (2018) awarded to- Dr. M.S.Swaminathan for his contributions to Indian Agriculture’

   ii.             **The World Food Prize 2019 was awarded to- Simon N. Groot (Vegetable breeder from Netherlands (Dutch), Founder of East-West seed company) Simon Groot played transformative role in empowering millions of smallholder farmers in more than 60 countries to earn greater incomes through enhanced vegetable production, benefitting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables for healthy diets. (First World Food Prize won by- MS Swaminathan in 1987)

 

 iii.             First Prize of DD Mahila Kisan Award for 2018-19 awarded to- Swati Shingade

 

 

 iv.            Krihi Karman Awards: Krishi Karman awards were instituted in the year -2010-11 (with cash Prize 5cr, trophy & citation)  To reward the best performing States in food grains and individual crops of Rice, Wheat, Pulses, Coarse Cereals and Oilseeds. **Krishi Karman Award for the highest production of food grain (>10 mt) awarded to- Chattisgarh

 

   v.            ICAR Awards:

 vi.             Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University (JNAU) was decorated with prestigious

 

vii.            ‘Sardar Patel ICAR Excellent Agriculture University Award 2018.

 

 

viii.             ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, bagged Sardar Patel

 

 ix.            Outstanding ICAR Institution Award 2018 in the “Major Institutes’ Category”.

 

 

   x.             ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad bagged prestigious “Sardar Patel

 

 xi.            Outstanding ICAR Institution Award 2018” in the Small Institute Category.

Indian State of Forest Report-2019-20:

a.     Top States in terms of forest cover as Percentage of total geographical area is- Mizoram (85.41%)>Arunachal Pradesh (79.65)>Meghalaya (76.33%)

 

b.     Total forest cover in India is- 80.73 million ha (24.56% of geographical area)

 

c.      State with highest forest area in the country is- Madhya Pradesh, followed by Arunachal Pradesh>Chattisgarh

 

 

d.     India has 10th rank in global forest area with 2% contribution 8h largest forest carbon stock The tree cover of the country is 95,027 sq Km which is 2.89% of total geographical area.

 

e.     Top 3 states showing increase in forest area is- Karnataka>Andhra Pradesh>Kerala