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Sanction Date: |
22-08-2019 |
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Project Category |
MG |
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Year |
2019-2010 |
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Project Duration |
3 Years + 07 Months Project Extension |
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BTA : |
BCM |
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Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Districts Chamoli, Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
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Organization/ Implementation Agency: |
Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, U. S. Nagar |
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Project Partners: |
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ICAR-VPKAS,Almora
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G.B. Pant 'National Institute of Himalayan Environment'(NIHE), Srinagar, Uttarakhand
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Lead Proponent: |
Prof. Reeta Goel/Dr. Ajay Veer Singh
Research Director
G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
Pantnagar, U.S Nagar, Uttarakhand - 263153
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Project Brief Description: |
Kidney bean or Rajmash (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a high value cash crop in Indian central Himalayan region. It is a kharif crop cultivated in Uttarakhand with acreage of about 7350 hectare with production of 7358 thousand tonnes. The average productivity is 874 kg/hectare as compared to 1217- 1430 kg/hectare in planes of India. Although, rajmash is also cultivated in planes of India but local cultivar growing in hills are known for their premium quality, unique taste and nutritional values. Presently, the farmers are unable to commercialize the crop due to low productivity. The reasons for low productivity are phosphate and nitrogen deficiency in soil, lack of genetic resources and poor agronomic practices. Nevertheless, department of Microbiology has carried out in depth genomics and proteomics studies of kidney bean rhizosphere microbiome from higher altitudes during the last decades. Moreover, several psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bioinoculants have been characterized in relation to low temperature N2 fixation and P solubilization.
Based on the past experience, it is being proposed to select commercial rajmash land races that are highly adapted to local climatic conditions. Furthermore, characterization and exploration of rhizosphere microbiota from kidney bean (Rajmash) growing in higher altitude can lead to enhanced soil health and productivity levels. Therefore, introduction of bioinoculants and disease management can provide livelihood security to hill farmers.
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Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: |
1. Resource poor farmers whose livelihood relies on hill agriculture in the targeted low nutrient soils region will be the direct beneficiary. Maximum farmers from central Himalayan regions and various communities in such agro-ecological regions will get benefit from the improved options identified and promoted by projects.
2. State Agriculture department will be linked and inform time to time for the benefit and necessary action.
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Activity Chart (For 3 years) |
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| Project Objectives |
Quantifiable Deliverables |
Monitoring Indicators |
| • Selection of highly adapted kidney bean cultivation sites. |
• Database on Potential psychorphillic and psychrotroph bioinoculants as the plant probiotics for kidney bean under nutrient deficient conditions (>70 No.) |
• Database developed (Nos.) |
| • Field demonstration of elite cold adapted bioinoculants. |
• Demonstration models for regional elite Rajmash Variety (70 No, 15 SC/ST dominated Villages in 04 Districts) |
• Demonstration model (Nos.) |
| • Monitoring, yield assessment and documentation |
• Develop the Database/Germplasm repository of indigenous landraces of Rajmash with the help of NBPGR, New Delhi (5 No.) |
• Improved the economic condition/income (% and number of SC/ST farmers/HH) |
| • Determination of rajmash rhizosphere microbiome at selected sites |
• Develop the popularization and conservation strategies of effective bioinoculants and elite landraces on the basis of morphological genetic and nutritional parameter (4 No) |
• Number of Training/Awareness Programme Organized (Nos.) |
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• Training/Awareness Programme (28 No and expected beneficiaries 840 No.) |
• No. of Reports/Research articles/Policy documents prepared and published (Nos.) |
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• Facilitate organic farming through application of ´bioinoculants´ with incremental income relies on organic farming (Farmers of SC/ST category 150 No) |
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• Develop the knowledge products: 01 Policy, 01 manual document and 5-6 publications in well reputed journal |
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