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Agricultural Research Institutes

 

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTES

• AVRDC - Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre, Taiwan
• CGIAR     -     Consultative     Group     of     International     Agricultural     Research, Washington, USA
• CIAT – International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Columbia, South America 
• CIMMYT – International Centre for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat, Mexico
• CIP – International Potato Centre, Peru, South America
• FAO – Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
• IBPGR – International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome, Italy
• IBRD – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank), Washington DC, USA
• IBSNAT – International Benchmark Soils Network for Agrotechnology Transfer, Hawai, USA
• ICARDA – International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria
• ICBA – International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE
• ICRAF – International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya 
• ICRISAT – International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India
• IDRC – International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
• IFDC – International Fertilizer Development Centre, Alabama, USA
• IFPRI – International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA
• IITA – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria 
• ILRI – International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya 
• IRRI – International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines
• ISNAR – International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, Netherland
• ISRIC – International Soils Reference and Information Centre, Netherlands
• ISSS – International Society of Soil Science, Rome
• IWMI – International Water Management Institute, Digama, Sri Lanka
• LRDC – Land Resources Development Centre, UK
• TPRI – Tropical Pesticides Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania
• WAC – World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
• WARDA – West Africa Rice Development Association, Monrovia, Liberia
• WMO – World Meteorological Organization, Geneva

NATIONAL INSTITUTES

• BARC – Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 
• CARI - Central Agroforestry Research Institute,Jhansi,UP 
• CARI – Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar, UP
• CAZRI – Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
• CCRI - Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra
• CFTRI – Central Food Technological  Research  Institute,  Mysore,  Karnataka 
• CIAE – Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
• CIAH – Central Institute of Arid Horticulture, Bikaner, Rajasthan
• CIARI – Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• CIBA – Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• CICR – Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra
• CIFA – Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha 
• CIFRI – Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, West Bengal 
• CIFT – Central Institute of Fisheries Technolgy, Willingdon Island, Cochin, Kerala
• CIMAP – Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• CIPHET – Central Institute of Post-harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab
• CIRB - Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, Haryana
• CIRC – Central Institute  for  Research on Cattle,  Meerut, Uttar  Pradesh 
• CIRCOT – Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Matunga, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• CIRG – Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom, Farah, Uttar Pradesh
• CISTH – Central Institute of Sub-Tropical Horticulture, Lucknow,  Uttar Pradesh
• CITH – Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
• CIWA - Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneshwar 
• CMFRI – Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, Kerala 
• CPCRI – Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod, Kerala
• CPPTI – Central Plant Protection Training Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana
• CPRI – Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
• CRIDA – Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, Telangana
• CRIJAF – Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore, West Bengal
• CSIR – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi
• CSSRI – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana
• CSWCRTI – Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
• CSWRI – Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar, Rajasthan 
• CTCRI – Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 
• CTRI – Central Tobacco Research Institute, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh 
• CTRL          – Cotton Technological Research Laboratory,    Mumbai, Maharashtra
• DARE – Department of Agricultural Research and Education, New Delhi
• FRI – Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
• IASRI – Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
• ICAR – Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi
• ICAR – RCER - ICAR Research Complex for  Eastern  Region,  Patna,  Bihar 
• ICAR - RCNEHR - ICAR Research complex for NEH region, Umiam, Meghalaya 
• IGFRI – Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, UP
• IIAB – Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, Jharkhand 
• IIFSR - Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research, Modipuram, UP 
• IIHR – Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, Karnataka 
• IIMR - Indian Institute of Maize Research, New Delhi
• IIMR - Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad, Telangana
• IINRG – Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Ranchi, Jharkand
• IIOPR - Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research, Pedavegi, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
• IIOR - Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad, Telangana 
• IIPR – Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
• IIRR - Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad, Telangana
• IIRS – Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 
• IISR - Indian Institute of Seed Research, Mau, Uttar Pradesh
• IISR – Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala
• IISR – Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• IISS – Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
• IISWC    -    Indian    Institute    of    Soil    and    Water   Conservation,    Dehradun, Uttarakhand
• IIVR – Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 
• IIWBR - Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana 
• IIWM - Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
• ISI – Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal
• MANAGE    –    National    Institute    of    Agricultural     Extension     Management, Hyderabad, Telangana
• NAARM – National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, Telangana
• NBRI – National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 
• NCOF – National Centre of Organic Farming, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 
• NIAG – National Institute of Animal Genetics, Karnal, Haryana
• NIANP   –   National   Institute    of   Animal    Nutrition   &    Physiology,   Adugodi, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• NIASM – National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Malegaon, Baramati, Pune, Maharashtra
• NIBSM – National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Baronda, Raipur, Chhattishgarh
• NIHSAD - National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal, MP 
• NIRJAFT – National Institute for Research on Jute Allied Fibres Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal
• NIVEDI     –    National    Institute    of    Veterinary    Epidemiology    and     Disease Informatics, Hebbal, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• NOFRI - National Organic Farming Research Institute, Gangtok, Sikkim
• NRRI – National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha
• NRSC – National Remote Sensing Centre, Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
• NSI – National Sugar Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
• PRII – Potash Research Institute of India, Gurgaon, Haryana
• SBI – Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
• VPKAS     –    Vivekananda     Parvatiya     Krishi     Anusandhan      Shala,      Almora, Uttarakhand

DEEMED UNIVERSITIES – 4

• IARI - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
• NDRI - National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana
• IVRI - Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh 
• CIFE - Central Institute on Fisheries Education, Mumbai, Maharshtra 

DIRECTORATES/PROJECT DIRECTORATES

• Directorate of Groundnut Research, Junagadh, Gujarat
• Directorate of Cashew Research, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada Dist, Karnataka Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, Bhimtal, Uttarakhand Directorate of Floricultural Research, Pune, Maharashtra
• Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, Pusa, New Delhi Directorate of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Research, Anand, Gujarat
• Directorate of Mushroom Research – Solan, Himachal Pradesh Directorate of Onion and Garlic Research, Pune, Maharashtra Directorate of Poultry Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana Directorate of Rapeseed & Mustard Research, Bharatpur, Rajasthan Directorate of Soybean Research, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
• Directorate of Weed Science Research, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal, Haryana
• Project   Directorate    on    Foot   and    Mouth    Disease,    Mukteswar,    Kumaon, Uttarakhand

NATIONAL  BUREAUS

• NBAGR – National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal, Haryana 
• NBAII– National   Bureau    of    Agriculturally    Important    Insects,    Hebbal, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• NBAIMO – National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Micro-Organisms, Mau Nath Bhanjan, Uttar Pradesh
• NBFGR – National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• NBPGR – National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi
• NBSS & LUP – National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land-Use Planning, Nagpur, Maharashtra

NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRES

• National Centre for Integrated Pest Management, Pusa, New Delhi
• National Research centre for Agricultural Economics & Policy Research, Pusa, New Delhi
• National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu National Research centre for  Camel,  Bikaner,  Rajasthan National Research centre for Equines, Hisar, Haryana
• National Research Centre for Grapes, Pune, Maharashtra National Research Centre for Litchi, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
• National Research centre for Mithun, Jharnapani, Medziphema, Nagaland National Research Centre for  Orchids,  Pakyong, Gangtok,  Sikkim National Research centre for Pig, Guwahati, Assam
• National Research Centre for Pomegranate, Solapur, Maharashtra National Research Centre for Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan
• National Research centre for Yak, Dirang, West Kameng Dist. Arunachal Pradesh
• National Research Centre on Integrated Farming (ICAR-NRCIF), Motihari, Bihar National Research centre on Meat, Hyderabad, Telangana
• National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa, New Delhi

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Women Development Programmes | Extension education study Material

 Women Development Programmes 

1. Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA)  (1982)

One of the women development programmes implemented in the country is the Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) programme launched during September 1982. This  programme is partly supported by United Nations International Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) and is jointly  financed by Union and State Governments.  It operates in conjunction with IRDP (Integrated Rural Development Project)  and TRYSEM (Training for Rural Youth in Self Employment).  

DWCRA aims (objective) at ‘motivating and assisting women to engage themselves in a productive activity for earning a substantial income as well as to improve the quality of their own and children’s life’.  Thus, though the economic activity is the priority, the social betterment of the women and their children is also aimed at.  

Main features of this programme 

a. Women of identified poor families are organized into groups of 15-20 each for taking up income generating activities suited to their skills and aptitude. 

b. Group members are given training usually under TRYSEM 

c. One time grant of Rs.15, 000 is provided for each group as ‘revolving fund’ for purchase of raw materials, marketing, child care etc.  This amount is shared equally by Union and State Governments and UNICEF. d. Each group selects one of its members as group organizer who is to help women in the selection of economic activities suited to their skills and aptitude, procurement of raw materials etc. 

e. Besides engaging in economic activity, each group is expected to be recipient of benefits of other development and welfare programmes.

f. Multi-purpose centre are being set up to serve as the central place for the working of women groups.

The list of income-generating activities undertaken under the scheme are:  tailoring, embroidery, ready-made garments, pickle making, papad making, bakery products, candle making, soap making, chalk making, envelop making, match box making, knitting, weaving, basket making, agarbathi making, poultry, dairy, piggery, goat rearing, bee keeping, mushroom production, fruit and vegetables processing, etc.

2. Stree Shakti Yojana / SHG (2000-2001)

The Stree Shakti Yojana was launched by Government of India during 2000-2001. This programme is meant for rural women below poverty line covering landless women, women who are divorced, SC/ST families and women having  disabled members/drug addicts in the family. 

The Chief Minister is the Chairman and the Minister for Women and Child Welfare  is the Deputy Chairman for the Stree Shakti Yojana. At district level, Commissioner is the Chairman and the Assistant Director of Women and Child Welfare,  and District Officers are the members of the committee.  

At taluk level, taluk panchayat president is the Chairman and officers of the concerned Department  are the members of the committee. Anganawadi worker will extend co-operation for the first 6 months to work and manage, and after 6 months the Anganawadi workers only supervise the work

Major aims/objectives of the programmes includes :

• Strengthening the process of creating suitable atmosphere which could achieve financial progress and social status of women 

• Forming 1,00,000 Stree Shakti groups throughout the state during 2000-2001 and stimulating confidence and self dependence on them and making them able to have control over the financial resource 46

• Increasing the income of poor women by engaging them in income generation activities and creating financial stability among them and thereby achieving eradication of poverty

• Channelizing various departments in one direction to provide opportunities to get the benefits of development works of various departments to the members of women group and taking measures for availing loans.

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Agricultural Development Programme | Agriculture Technology Information Centre (ATIC)

 Agriculture Technology Information Centre (ATIC) 

ATIC has been conceived and put into practice since 1998-1999 under National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP) sponsored by World Bank and implemented through 40 ICAR institutes and State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) located in various parts of the country.

The rationale behind establishment of ATIC has been :

a) Providing diagnostic services for soil testing, plant and livestock health

 b) Supplying research products such as seeds and other planting material, poultry strains, livestock breed, fish seed and processed products etc., emerging from the institution for testing and adaptation by various clientele 

c) Disseminating information through published literature and communication material as well as audio visual aids, and 

d) Providing an opportunity to the institutes/SAUs to have resource generation through the sale of their technologies.

Objectives of ATIC:

a) To provide a single window delivery system for the products and species available from an institution to the farmers and other interested groups as a process of innovativeness in technology dissemination at the institute level.

 b) To facilitate delivery access to the farmers to the institutional resource available in terms of technology, advice, products etc., for reducing dissemination losses 

c) To provide mechanism for feedback from the users to the institute. 

d) To offer consultancy services to the different stake holders

It is expected that if ATIC works with its full vigor and mandated objective there will be no doubt that farmers of India will be able to accomplish their covered goal and produce more with quality and with reduced cost and  will be competitive partner in the agriculture market in the context of World Trade Organization and Globalization of agriculture. Not only ATIC will help farmers to use modern technology for demand driven agriculture but also helps in developing viable, responsible and sustainable agriculture with linkages among research, extension and farmers’ system. 

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Agricultural Development Programme | Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA)

 Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) 

A Centrally Sponsored Scheme to provide support to State Extension Reforms was launched by ICAR during 1999. Under the Innovation Technology Dissemination (ITD) component of NATP, ATMA was implemented in the country. Initially, ATMA was implemented on a pilot basis in four districts of each of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa and Punjab. ATMA was launched under the guidance of National Institute of Agriculture Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad. On the basis of the evaluation report of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow revealed that ATMA’s extension approaches have been proving to be promising in execution of the reforms and thus extended to other states of the country.

ATMA programme was launched in Karnataka during 2005-05 in districts namely, Bidar, Gulabarga, Koppal, Bijapur, Hassan,  Shimoga, Chamarajanagar and Kolar (undivided). During the year 2006-2007 ATMA programme was spread to Belgaum, Chitradurga, Chickamagalur and Kodagu districts. After 2007-2008, the remaining districts have been included under ATMA in the state.

ATMA is a registered society of key stakeholders (farmers, line/development departments, non government organizations, input dealers, mass media, agri-business companies, farmers organizations, etc.) involved in agriculture activities for sustainable agricultural development in the district. It provides flexible working environment and establishes effective integration of all the stakeholders at the district level.

Cafeteria of activities under ATMA includes;

a. Farmers oriented activities : 

(a)Developing Strategic and Extension Plan, 

(b) Organizing trainings, demonstrations and exposure visits etc.

 b. Farm information dissemination : 

(a) Organizing exhibitions, campaigns etc.,

(b) Information dissemination through printed leaflets/folders/bulletins etc, 

(c) Local advertisements etc

c. Research-Extension-Farmers linkage :

(a) Farmers scientists interaction, 

(b) Organising kissan gostis and field days, 

(c) Assessment, refinement and validation of front line technologies through Research centres/Krishi vignana kendras etc.,

d. Innovative activities  :

(a) Conducting farm schools, 

(b) Post graduate Diploma in Agriculture Extension Management, 

(c) Setting up of community radio station etc.

(e) Administrative expenses.

Objectives of ATMA

a. To strengthen Research-Extension-Farmers linkages 

b. To provide an effective mechanism for co-ordination and management of activities of different agencies involved in technology adoption/validation and dissemination at district level

c. To increase the quality and type of technologies being disseminated

d. To move towards shared ownership of the agricultural technology system by key stakeholders

e. To develop new partnership with the private institutions including non-government organizations.

f. Technology dissemination through farmers groups 

g. Increase agricultural production, productivity and income of farmers through intensification and diversification of agriculture production.

Specific features of ATMA are : 

• Demand driven farmer-based activities • Public private partnership for extension services

• Development of village level institutions like farmers associations, farmer’s interest groups or commodity interest groups.

• Creation of rural infrastructure and marketing

• Decentralized decision-making  and  bottom up approach

• Integrated farming system approach

• Market led addition

• Formation and strengthening of farmers’ interest group

• In-service training to increase staff competence.

Strategic Research and Extension Plan (SREP) Strategic planning in brief is ‘what is intended to be achieved in future’ and ‘how to get there’. Every district has to prepare the SREP for implementing ATMA in respective districts. The SREP is prepared through participatory methodologies such as Participatory Appraisal Techniques involving all the stake holders and farmers. 

The SREP contains detailed analysis of all the information on existing farming systems in the district and research-extension gaps required to be filled up. It also prioritizes the research-extension strategies within the district. It becomes the basis for development work plans at block/district level. 

State Extension Working Plan It is an annual plan based on Strategic Research and Extension Plan. It contains general and specific information about ATMA. It identifies the Extension and Research gaps and develops strategies to fulfill the Research and Extension gaps. It contains cafeteria of activities to be implemented each year. 

Advantages of ATMA:

• ATMA is more effective in technology dissemination as it encourages location-specific solutions keeping all the resources of the farmers in mind 

• ATMA seeks greater linkage with research and extension. ZRS must be more active in generating location specific and users friendly technologies.

• Involvement of women in both ATMA Governing body and Management Committee would bring about women empowerment. 

• Non –government organizations can a play a major role in educating farmers and also helps in formation of farmers organizations 

• ATMA has a effective feedback mechanism which help in better policy planning of the extension activities 

• The project director of ATMA could play a vita role in the coordination of the activities of sister departments in the district. He/she is the key person to ensure an integrated approach of technology generation, dissemination and utilization. 

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