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Production & Extension Management Division (PEM) |
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Mandate |
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Development of location
specific sustainable lac production technologies including farming
system approach
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Integrated nutrient and
pest management technology development
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Developing strategies for
on-farm water management to enhance NRG production on a sustainable
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Dissemination, evaluation
and refinement NRG production technologies
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Capacity building, market
intelligence and development of NRG related data bank
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Establishing linkages with
NRG stakeholders at National and International levels
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Division building
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Infrastructure |
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The division has
scientists from the disciplines of Agricultural Entomology,
Agricultural Extension, Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Land and Water
Management Engineering, Agro-forestry and Agricultural Economics for
execution of various activities. |
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Available
facilities |
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- Well-furnished
Lecture Hall with public address system, digital and multimedia
presentation facilities
- Hostel
facilities for trainees
- NRG museum
depicting processing and product development of natural resins
and gums including different aspects of lac production,
processing, utilization, marketing and export
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Major technologies
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- Technology of
lac cultivation on Albizia procera
- Suitable novel
insecticides (ethofenprox, indoxacarb, fipronil, spinosad,
flubendiamide tec.) for insect-pest management in lac crop
- Management of
insect-pest of lac through broodlac treatment by selective
insecticide
- Lac Integrated
Cropping System model for sustained lac production
- Application of
lac mud as organic manure in vegetables and floriculture
- Protection of
Flemingia semialata seeds against pod borer
- Management of
soil fertility for winter season kusmi lac production on ber
- Hexacanazole
and chlorothalonil, fungicides for management of sooty mold in
lac cultivation
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Services provided |
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Training:
The Division organizes different types of training programmes on
various aspects of natural resins & gums including lac |
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Publicity and Promotional
Activities:
Number of extension
bulletins, pamphlets etc. have been published in different languages
and distributed. Two- part video film on scientific lac cultivation
and processing in Hindi and English has been made and screened to
the trainees in every training programme. The Division also promotes
lac by organizing and / or participating in fairs and exhibitions.
Linkages have been established with a number of GOs, NGOs, FPOs and
SHGs in various lac growing states to support extension activities
for lac cultivation. |
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Technical Advisory/Information
Services:
The Division attends to different queries related to lac cultivation
to GOs, NGOs, FPOs, SHGs, entrepreneurs and individual farmers too.
Monthly advisories through social media, support services like
forecast of nymphal emergence, lac crop status, causes of crop
failure etc. are provided. "One to One programme" for farmers and
entrepreneur is conducted by the division. |
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Consultancy Research:
The Division also
executes need based contract research specially impact analysis of
lac cultivation technologies, potential area identification for lac
cultivation etc.
- Sale counter
for lac based handicraft and extension booklets on lac
- Forecasting of
nymphal emergence of broodlac
- Monthly
advisories through social media
- Techniques for
nursery raising and planting system for conventional and some
promising lac hosts
- Technique and
time of pruning as well as period of rest between two successive
crops for sustainability yield
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