RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

 

The Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology undertakes fundamental, applied and adaptive research in all the 10 Agro-climatic zones of the state with an objective of generating location specific technologies for higher production and productivity in agriculture and allied sectors. The research activities are carried out in 8 Regional Research and Technology Transfer Stations (RRTTS), 4 Regional Research and Technology Transfer Substations (RRTTSS), 7 Commodity Research Centers and 13 Adaptive Research Stations. In addition to this 51 All India Co-ordinated Research Projects and 67 ad hoc Research Projects are in operation with financial support from ICAR, Govt. of India, State Government and several other external funding agencies. Three NAIP mega projects namely i) Sustainable rural livelihood and food security to rainfed farmers of Odisha (NAIP Component – 3, outlay of Rs.6.18 crores); ii) A value chain of ginger and ginger products, (NAIP Component – 2, outlay of  Rs.7.86 crores), iii)  Modeling the performance of a few major cropping systems in Eastern India in the light of projected climate change (NAIP Component – 4, outlay of Rs.3.027 crore) have been implemented with OUAT as the Consortium leader. Three other NAIP Sub-Projects have been implemented where OUAT is a Consortium partner.

 

THE MAJOR THEMATIC AREAS OF RESEARCH ARE AS FOLLOWS:

• Crop improvement
• Crop production
• Crop protection
• Horticulture
• Agro-meteorology for climate change resilience
• Natural Resource Management
• Irrigation
• Farm mechanization
• Post harvest and value addition
• Agro-forestry
• Integrated Farming System Research
• Mushroom and Honeybee
• Animal Science (Goat & Poultry)

Besides, research initiatives have been taken with International Collaboration for implementation of the following research projects.

1. Sustainable Management of Agro-ecological Resources for Tribal Societies 2 (SMARTS-2).

This is a Collaborative Research Project of OUAT, Bhubaneswar with RIHN, Japan and University of Hawaii, USA.

 

1. Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)

This is a CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre) based collaborative project conducting on farm research in 6 districts of Odisha to generate information for developing a decision support tool to recommend fertilizer to farmers.

 

III. Improving the livelihood of smallholder farmers in drought prone areas of sub-Saharn Africa and South-Asia through enhanced grain legume production and productivity (TL II Project)- Phase 2.

This project is introducing promising genotypes in groundnut, pigeonpea and chickpea in farmers’ field for their participatory evaluation in the agro-climatic regions of the state.

1. Strengthening OUAT-IRRI linkages for growth of rice sector (IRRI-OUAT Collaborative Project)

The project is for the Rice Check pilot to be tested in two blocks of Khordha District in the ensuing rabi season and six blocks in kharif 2015.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

• The university has so far released 147 high yielding varieties of crops, out of which 62 are of rice, 23 are of oilseeds, 10 of pulses and 08 of spices, 15 are of vegetables and 29 are of other crops.
• The low land rice culture OR-142-99 has been released in Cambodia in the name Santepheap-3. Variety “Rambha” has been identified by IRRI as a suitable variety for shallow low lands of Myanmar, “Sarathi” for Bangladesh, China, Malasia, Egypt and Vietnam.
• The OUAT released rice variety “Pratikshya” is a good substitute for the ruling variety “Swarna”. Rice variety Lalat is widely adopted in the state both during kharif and summer
• Three ginger (Surabhi, Suruchi, Suprabha) and four turmeric (Roma, Surama, Rashmi, Ranga) varieties having export quality have been released.
• Tomato varieties (Utkal Pallavi, Utkal Dipti, Utkal Kumari, Utkal Urbasi) and brinjal varieties (Utkal Kesari, Utkal Madhuri, Utkal Tarini, Utkal Anushree) released by the University have been widely accepted and adopted by the farming community of the State.
• Integrated Nutrient Management for individual crops and cropping systems have been developed. Integrated Pest Management modules for rice, sugarcane, brinjal, cole crops, mustard and cotton have been developed.
• Organic packages for rice-based high value cropping systems, turmeric and ginger cultivation have been standardized.
• Two suitable strains and appropriate growing techniques for Button Mushroom have been developed.
• A multi coloured broiler poultry bird has been developed by the University.
• OUAT has published monographs on ‘Ganjam Goat’, ‘Motu cattle’ and ‘Binjharpuri cattle’ containing local breed descriptions. Geographical Indicator application has been filed for Ganjam Goat Ghee and Chilika buffalo curd.
• A 3 row paddy transplanter weighing (18.0 kg) suited to female agricultural worker was developed by the ESA project.
• A mini oil refining unit of 30 kg/batch has been developed and tested for refining of sunflower oil. A model pilot plant on vegetable pack house of 1 ton/day capacity was developed with washing, surface drying, sorting/ grading.
• An agro-processing centre for dal processing and potato chips processing unit were established by the Agricultural Engineers of the University.
• University farms produce 1607 quintals of breeder’s seed, 6665 quintals of foundation seed, 237 quintals of certified seeds different crops and vegetables, 16,660 vegetable seedlings, 1690 mango grafts, 10,631 forest and medicinal plants, 370 quintals of sugarcane planting material, 14,5330 tissue culture plantlets  and 56.28 lakh fish spawn and fry which were distributed to Govt. organization and NGO and interested farmers of the state as well as neighbouring states during the year 2013-14.

Research Stations

Technology Transfer
Twenty seven KVKs, distance education programmes, production and distribution of farm literature etc. contribute significantly in developing transfer technology models for futherance of technology transfer to the farming community of the state. The University has also made satisfactory impact on technology transfer through demonstrations, on-farm field-testing and mass communication media. The University has so far trained 1,00,422 farmers, 25,061 farmwomen, 23,540 rural youths and 22,604 extension personnel on various fields of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry and pisciculture through KVKs.

LIST OF REGIONAL RESEARCH STATIONS AND SUB-STATIONS (AGRICULTURE) IN ORISSA OPERATING UNDER OUAT

 

SL. No.	Name of the Research Stations / Location	District in which it is located	Geographical Area (Ha.)	Cultivated Area including orchards & plantation area (Ha.)
1	RRTTSS, Kirei	Sundergarh	20.84	16.31
2	RRTTS, Keonjhar	Keonjhar	117.40	30.05
3	RRTTS, Joshipur	Mayurbhanja	13.95	8.08
4	RRTTS, Ranital	Bhadrak	42.72	24.50
5	RRTTSS, Moto	Bhadrak	17.80	10.50
6	RRTTS, Bhubaneswar	Khurda	87.50	38.50
7	Horticulture Research Station, Bhubaneswar	Khurda	26.00	24.40
8	JRS, Kendrapara	Kendrapara	18.65	13.05
9	SRS, Nayagarh	Nayagarh	27.53	2.40
10	CPR, Berhampur	Ganjam	27.30	12.44
11	RRTTS, G.Udayagiri	Kandhamal	62.44	41.00
12	RRTTS, Semiliguda	Koraput	324.00	206.90
13	RRTTSS, Umerkote	Nawarangapur	48.00	17.00
14	HARS, Pottangi	Koraput	16.20	11.90
15	RRTTSS, Jeypore	Koraput	11.43	9.83
16	RRTTSS, Kalimela	Malkangiri	67.36	39.91
17	RRTTS, Bhawanipatna	Kalahandi	73.00	61.00
18	RRTTS, Chiplima	Sambalpur	90.00	40.00
19	Gambharipalli Farm	Baragarh	207.04	106.00
20	RRTTS, Mahisapat	Dhenkanal	23.50	16.86
v     RRTTS : Regional Research and Transfer Technology Station v     RRTTSS: Regional Research and Transfer Technology Sub-Station

 

 

Agroclimatic Zone-wise

Background Information of RRTTS/RRTTSS

1. North Western Plateau Zone	2. North Central Plateau Zone
3. North Eastern Coastal Plain Zone	4. East And South Eastern Coastal Plain Zone
5. North Eastern Ghat Zone	6. Eastern Ghat High Land Zone
7. South Eastern Ghat Zone	8. Western Undulating Zone
9. West Central Table Land Zone	10.Mid-Central Table Land Zone

 

1. NORTH WESTERN PLATEAU ZONE

	Name of the RRTTSS	:	Kirei
	Date of initiation	:	1989-90
	Location	:	Kirei
	Officer-in-charge	:	Mr. Sagar Senapati
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	2	1
	b. Supporting staff	9	6
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Effect of intercrop strip width on runoff and soil loss.
Effect of listed crops on soil loss.
Effect of lining materials on seepage loss.

Research results of practical utility

Vetiver is an effective bund stabiliser, retaining its 72 % cross sectional area after bleaching of soil through rainfall, as compared to local grasses.

Upland rice yield increased due to insitu soil moisture conservation by maintaining vetiver filter bunding interval as follows.

	Slope %	Bunding Interval (M)
	< 2,5	30
	> 2.5 To < 4.5	15
	> 4.5	03

 

3. Mulch tillage increased the mustard yield by 33%, when grown under residual moisture condition.

 

2. NORTH CENTRAL PLATEAU ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Keonjhar
	Date of initiation	:	1977-78
	Location	:	Judia Farm, Keonjhar
	Officer-in-charge	:	Dr. K.M.Samal(I/C)
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	8	6
	b. Supporting staff	23	21
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
1. Evaluation of local aromatic rice cultivars
2. Cultural management practices in direct seeded rainfed medium land rice
3. Response of medium late duration rice varieties to fertilizer levels
4. Effect of long term manuring on physico chemical properties of soil (vertic Haplaquepts) under rice-field pea cropping system
5. Effect of vermi compost on yield of brinjal
6. Integrated management of shoot and fruit borer in brinjal
7. Management of diseases of runnerbean
8. Control of phomopsis blight and fruit rot of brinjal

Research results of practical utility
Direct seeding with 100 kg. seeds/ha followed by beusaning and gap filling 7 days after beusan produced maximum grain yield of 43 quintal/ ha.

Application of vermi compost @ 5 t/ha alongwith 50% recommended dose of NPK fertiliser produced highest yield (28.3 t/ha) in Brinjal.

Alternate spraying of Endosulphan @ 0.5 kg ai/ha and fenvalerate @ 0.1 kg ai/ha proved to be ideal in controlling shoot and fruit borer in brinjal.

 

3. NORTH EASTERN COASTAL PLAIN ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Ranital
	Date of initiation	:	1982-83
	Location	:	Ranital
	Officer-in-charge	:	Dr. B.Behera (I/C)
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	5	3
	b. Supporting staff	12	12
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Evaluation of low land rice varieties.
Integrated nutrient management for rice-rice cropping system.
Post harvest study to improve storing of rice under different dates of harvesting.
Evaluation of new fungi sides against sheath blight of rice
Water requirement of transplanted rice using drum culture technique.
Research results of practical utility
Green manuring with dhanicha + FYM 5 t/ha and 20 kg N/ha in medium land rice produced almost the same yield (4 t/ha) as the recommended dose.
Zinc deficiency in rice was overcome by application of ZnSO 4 @ 25 kg/ha.
Sheath blight, sheath rot and grain discoloration in paddy were reduced by spraying Topsin M (0.1 %).

	Name of the RRTTSS	:	Motto
	Date of initiation	:	1982-83
	Location	:	Motto
	Officer-in-charge	:	Mr. S.K.Tripathy
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	2	2
	b. Supporting staff	8	7
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Maintenance and screening of salt tolerant rice varieties.
Chemical Mutagenesis of rice for development of salt resistance limes.
Improvement of plant ideotypes for saline soils and flash-flood situation.

Research results of practical utility
Dhanicha is the most effective organic amendment for management of saline lands.
Rice varieties SR-26 B, CSR-10, IR-50 and Patani tolerate salinity.
Short duration rice variety Latasali records maximum yield of 33.11 quintal/ha during kharif under direct seed condition.
Rice variety Mahalaxmi tolerates flash flood better than other varieties.

 

4. EAST AND SOUTH EASTERN COASTAL PLAIN ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Bhubaneswar
	Date of initiation	:	1977-78
	Location	:	Bhubaneswar
	Officer-in-charge	:	Mr. S.K.Uttaray (I/C)
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	7	6
	b. Supporting staff	23	23
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Varietal evaluation of medium duration rice varieties for old age seedlings.
Varietal trial on groundnut.
Evaluation of advanced generation (F3) materials of greengram for yield and mosaic resistance.
Response of hybrid rice varieties to dates of planting and spacing.
Yield sustainability in rice-groundnut cropping sequences.
Effect of vermi compost on rice-tomato cropping sequence.
Management of groundnut pest by use of biopesticides and plant product.
Studies on bioecology and parasitization potential of bracon brevicornis on brinjal shoot and fruit borer.
Management of important groundnut diseases.

Research results of practical utility
Promising rice varieties for medium lands are Lalat, Shrabani, Sarathi, Daya and Mahsuri , for waterlogged areas CR-1030, CR-1018, Mahalaxmi, Panidhan Tulasi and Lunishree and for coastal saline soils CSR-10 and CSR 21.

2. In kharif rice combined application of FYM @ 5t/ha and chemical fertilizer @ 30:15:15 kg NPK/ha produced highest yield and net return of Rs3615/ha.

Rice pests are controlled by seedling root deep with 0.02% chloropyriphos for 8-10 hours followed application of phorate 10g @ 1.5 kg a.i./ha. 20 DAT and spraying with monocrotophos 0.05% at 40 DAT.

In laterite soil groundnut pod yield was highest (22.34 q/ha) by 3 spraying of borax 0.35% with a net profit of Rs. 2090/ha.

Aphid tolerant variety of moongbean are Jyoti, K 851, Sujata, Banapur local and Nayagarh local.

Fruit and shoot borer of brinjal are effectively controlled by application of carbofuran granules (3 G) @ 1.5 kg a.i./ha at planting and spraying with deltamethrin @ 150 g a.i./ha at 20 DAT + spraying DDVP @ 0.4 kg a.i./ha at 60 DAT.

	Name of the RRTTSS	:	Nayagarh
	Date of initiation	:	1989-90
	Location	:	Nayagarh
	Officer-in-charge	:	Dr. P.K.Mishra
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	3	3
	b. Supporting staff	4	4
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)

Advance varietal trial-I & II.
Advance varietal trial ratoon.
Advance varietal trial-midlate. Development of agrotechniques for multiple ratooning.
Effective method and density of planting on growth and yield of late planted sugarcane.
Evaluation of the impact of IPM technologies against important insect pests of sugarcane.

Research results of practical utility

The sugarcane varieties in early group are Co 7704, Co 6907, CoC 9161 and medium and late group are found to be CoT 8201, Co 8021, Co 7608 and Co 62175.
Optimum fertiliser dose of sugar cane is 200 : 60: 100 kg NPK / ha.
Early shoot borer in sugarcane is effectively controlled by application of granular insecticide viz. Carbofuran and phorate.

5. NORTH EASTERN GHAT ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	G. Udayagiri
	Date of initiation	:	1981-82
	Location	:	G. Udayagiri
	Officer-in-charge	:	Dr. G.J.Patra
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	8	8
	b. Supporting staff	23	22
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Groundnut varietal trial.
Evaluation of blackgram selections.
Identification of crops for intercropping with turmeric.
Integrated nutrient management in rice.
Feasibility of growing potato/onion in kharif.
Integrated management of Boron on tomato.
Integrated pest and disease management in ginger.
Effect of season on parasitic load in goat population.
Research results of practical utility
Maize- toria is the most remunerative cropping sequence for rainfed upland.
Turmeric varieties Surama, Ranga, Suvarna and BSR 1 are highest yielders (200-300 q/ha).
Ginger variety Suprava and Nadia are the top yielders, 60 q/ha, with less fibre content.
Groundnut variety Smruti is the highest yielder (20 q/ha) and can replace the ruling variety AK 12-24 (14 q/ha).
Pest and diseases of ginger are reduced by application of neem/ karanj oil cake @ 2 t/ha.
For rice, first fortnight of June, for niger first fortnight of August, for rainfed mustard first fortnight of October and for wheat first fortnight of November have been found as optimum sowing periods.

 

6. EASTERN GHAT HIGH LAND ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Semiliguda
	Date of initiation	:	1977-78
	Location	:	Semiliguda
	Associate Director of Research	:	Dr. S. Rath (I/C)
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	4	2
	b. Supporting staff	21	19
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Effect of time of planting, planting geometry and seedling per hill on growth and yield of hybrid rice.
Chemical control of major insect pest of okra.
Litchi based intercropping system.
Floor management in Tapioca varieties.
Study on banana based vegetable intercropping.
Exploratory trial on performance of strawberry and potato bean.
Research results of practical utility
A new high yielding niger variety 'Deomali' has been developed by the Station. Its yield is 25-30% higher than the local ones.
Kharif tomato var Utkal Kumari is successfully grown, when sown in third week of June
High yield of brinjal, 14 t/ha, is achieved when fertilised at 150-80-80 kg NPK/ha.
In Jhola lands, rice var Utkal Prava produces high yield with low fertiliser dose of 20-20-20 NPK/ha

	Name of the RRTTSS	:	Umerkote
	Date of initiation	:	1982-83
	Location	:	Umerkote
	Officer-in-charge	:	Mr. D. Rout
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	4	2
	b. Supporting staff	11	11
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Selection of potential lines from segregating F 2 population of cotton.
Hybrid verietal trial in maize.
Response of cotton varieties to different doses of fertilisers.
Studies on nutrition of hybrid cotton in acid soils.
Integrated management of cotton pest.
Research results of practical utility
Maize hybrid Trisulata and composite maize Pratap are the highest yielders with 45 q/ ha grain.
Savitha, DHH 224, G.cot Hyb 8 and G.cot Hyb 10 are the promising cotton hybrids with average yield (seed cotton) of 18 q/ha.
The optimum spacing for cotton hybrids is 90 cm x 90 cm with seed cotton yield of 17.16 q/ha.
Blackgram var KU-301, PU-19 and PU 30 are the highest yielders with average yield of 9.5 q/ha than the standard check T 9 (7.5 q/ha).

7. SOUTH EASTERN GHAT ZONE

	Name of the RRTTSS	:	Kalimela
	Date of initiation	:	1988-89
	Location	:	Kalimela
	Officer-in-charge	:	Dr. A. Padhi
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	1	1
	b. Supporting staff	8	8
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Studies on production maximisation in groundnut.
Effect of vermi compost on yield of paddy.
Research results of practical utility
Sesamum var Malkangiri local produced the highest yield of 8.0 q/ha, when sown in September
Promising rice varieties are Heera as extra early, Annada and Subhadra as early and Anang and Lalat as Medium duration.
Optimum fertiliser dose for medium duration Kharif rice is 75-37.5-37.5 kg NPK kg/ha.

8. WESTERN UNDULATING ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Bhawanipatana
	Date of initiation	:	1982-83
	Location	:	Bhawanipatana
	Associate Director of Research	:	Dr. B.B.Bhol
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	5	5
	b. Supporting staff	13	12
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Varietal trial on rice (Early, medium and late)
Performance of hybrid Brinjal varieties.
Varietal evaluation of onion.
Integrated nutrient management for cotton hybrid.
Integrated nutrient management in hybrid rice-bengal gram cropping system.
Identification of suitable insitu soil and moisture conservation practices.
Assessment of seed quality and decorticating capacity of groundnut decorticator.

Research results of practical utility
Hybrid cotton var suitable for rainfed upland are JK HY 1, Gcot H-8,savita,PKVH-4 and MECH-162.
15th June is the optimum time of sowing for upland crops viz. Paddy, Groundnut, Gulji and Jowar.
Linseed and Safflower are the most remunerative oil seeds grown in residual moisture after Paddy.
In hybrid Cotton Var. Savita, highest seed cotton yield (22.85 q/ha) was obtained by application of 120:60:60 kg NPK/ha + FYM @ 10 t/ha Bio-fertilizer Azotobacter and PSB 5 kg each/ha.

9. WEST CENTRAL TABLE LAND ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Chiplima
	Date of initiation	:	1977-78
	Location	:	Chiplima
	Associate Director of Research	:	Dr. M.M.Panda
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	5	3
	b. Supporting staff	22	20
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Verietal evaluation of papaya.
Response of papaya to levels of N & K.
Nitrogen and potassium requirement of banana.

Research results of practical utility

The popular crop varieties developed by the zone are
Rice : Lalat (42 q/ha) and Meher (40 q/ha) for medium land
Groundnut : Jawan, Kissan and Smruti
The optimum fertiliser dose for sugarcane is 250-100-60 kg NPK/ha.
Non monetary inputs like early transplanting in first fortnight of July (Kharif) and first fortnight of January (Rabi) of var . Lalat,Gouri,Anang,Bhuban and Meher reduces the infestation of gall midge to below 5% ETL in rice in the area, which is the endemic zone for the pest.
Mustard is successfully grown as a profitable cash crop sandwitched between two rice crops in canal irrigated medium land.
Use of bullock drawn puddler reduces puddling cost by 50%, while increasing rice yield by 26 to 30% over traditional puddling by country plough.

10. MID-CENTRAL TABLE LAND ZONE

	Name of the RRTTS	:	Mahisapat
	Date of initiation	:	1982-83
	Location	:	Mahisapat
	Associate Director of Research	:	Dr. U. K. Nanda (I/C)
	Total number of employees	Sanctioned	In position
	a. Scientists	7	6
	b. Supporting staff	14	12
	c. Consolidated/work charge	-	-

 

Proposed technical programme(2000-2001)
Combined effect of biofertilizer and chemical fertilizer in raising productivity of upland paddy.
Evaluation of soil amendments for kharif groundnut in acid soils.Varietal evaluation of Brinjal.
Management of brinjal shoot and fruit borer.
Management of Gundhi bug in upland rice.
Effect of lactosac on the performance of broilers.
Control of heat stress in broilers.

Research results of practical utility

Pre-emergence application of oxyfluorfen @ 0.07 kg a.i/ha and one hand weeding 40 days after sowing resulted in highest grain yield of 18 q/ha as compared to farmers practice of twice hoeing and weeding (12 q/ha) in upland Rice.
In Sesamum Tilotama, Kalika and Uma are found to be top yielders (6-8 q/ha).
In Kharif application of N and P @ 45:15 kg/ha gives higher yield in Sesamum (10 q/ha).
Okra var Utkal Gaurav is very promising high yielder free from YMV disease.
Sweet potato var Samrat and CO 2 are top yielders (19.5 t/ha) under rainfed situation.
Lactosac at 50 g/q feed resulted in faster growth and low feed conversion ratio in broilers.

At present there are 8 Regional Research Stations and 4 Sub-Stations operating in 10 Agroclimatic zones of Orissa . The Regional Research Station is headed by an Associate Director of Research along with a team of scientists.

Adaptive Research Stations
The Research findings of the Regional Research Stations/Sub-Stations are further tried in the 13 Adaptive Research Stations located one in each of the undivided revenue districts of the State in collaboration with department of Agriculture, Govt. of Orissa to find out their adaptability to actual farming situations.

The research information generated in various aspects by the Regional Research Stations and Sub-stations are validated through adaptive trials, front-line demonstration and put to extension system of the university to develop extension education models for transfer of technology befitting to the situation and farming community of the state. By now, the research organization has fulfilled the needs and aspiration of the people on allied fields to a considerable extent and helped in increasing the production and productivity thereby increasing income and ultimately resulting in socio-economic changes of the farming community.

Research Projects

All India Coordinated Research Projects
Besides the research on zonal. problems, the University also takes part in All India Research Programmes through Coordinated Research Projects of ICAR and other funding agencies. There were 32 Coordinated Research Projects operating in the University through the assistance of ICAR and other agencies till 1992-93. It was increased to 44 in 1995-96. At present there are 48 AICRP with funding at 75:25 are operating in OUAT.

Govt.of India Projects
Agromet Advisory Services (AAS) project of National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) under the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi is operating at five places in Orissa under the University. While Bhubaneswar centre is releasing bi-weekly weather forecast and advisory bulletin, the other four places, namely, Ranital, Keonjhar, Bhawanipatna and Chiplima are releasing weekly bulletin on every Tuesday. The project is 100% financed by the Government of India. The project is likely to start at two more places, namely, G. Udayagiri and Semiliguda. At the end of the 10th Five Year Plan, each of the 10 Agroclimatic zones of Orissa will have one (AAS) centre.

Another project, Cost of Cultivation scheme, financed by Govt. of India to study the cost of cultivation of principal crops is operating in the University. New Research Projects sanctioned in 2005-06 included the following mega projects.

(i) "DBT Rural Bio-resource Complex in villages of Puri district (OUAT, Bhubaneswar)" sanctioned by DBT, Govt. of India at a financial outlay of Rs.386.03 lakhs.

(ii) "Niche Area of Excellence - Management of Acid Soils for sustainable crop production" at a financial outlay of Rs.108.75 lakhs has been sanctioned by ICAR.

(iii) Experiential learning projects
(a) Honey bee
(b) Mushroom
(c) Poultry Meat


(iv) The University is developing international collaboration with the University of Missouri, USA on certain frontier areas of research viz. commercial exploitation of indigenous medicinal plants, developing high yielding varieties of selected commercial crops, reducing harmful effects of pesticides and establishing a joint centre for agricultural policy.

Adhoc Research Projects
At present there are more than 40 adhoc research projects operating in the University. Its number was within 10 before 1992-93. Besides, 11 new externally funded projects at a total financial outlay of Rs.633.382 lakhs and another 15 projects with support of private sector with total outlay of Rs. 28.25 lakhs have been made operational in the University during the year 2005-06.

NATP Projects
Realising the importance of technology transfer to the farmer's fields, ICAR started NATP projects in all the states with the World Bank Assistance. In OUAT 41 NATP projects were operated.

ARIS Project

Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS) project of ICAR is operating in OUAT since 1996. Under the project LAN and WAN have been created in the campus.

Research Collaboration

Inter Institutional Collaboration
The mandates of the State Agricultural universities, so far as its research and extension activities are concerned are similar to those of the ICAR/ Govt.of India Institutes. The University has its research and extension network spreading through out the state performing such functions. It is therefore, thought to be appropriate to coordinate the research and extension efforts made by the Scientists of ICAR/ Govt.of India and OUAT. With this background the research coordination committee among OUAT/ ICAR/ Govt.of India/ State Govt. Institutes located in and around Bhuba�neswar and Cuttack was formulated for the first time under the chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor, OUAT in the 1st week of October,1994. Its first meeting was held on 7th October, 1994 at 10.00 AM in Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology.

Collaborative Institutes
The Research Coordination Committee was formed including all Deans and Directors of OUAT and Directors/Officer-in�Charge of ICAR/Govt. of India/State Govt. Institutes located in and around Bhubaneswar and Cuttack with Vice-Chancellor, OUAT as its Chairman, and Director, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation� OUAT, as its Secretary.

The following areas are identified for collaborative study
- Environment Science
- Medicinal and Aromatic Plant
- Improvement of Fish Pond
- Rice-cum-Fish culture
- Rain Water Management
- Agro-Met Services
- Germplasm Collection on Horticultural species
- Biofertiljzer
- Poultry Manure as Animal Feeds
- Potentiality of Integrating quail, duck + fish in farming system
- Tissue culture in plant Improvement Programme

ACHIEVEMENT

The University has made significant contribution in the areas of crop improvement/ crop production/ natural resource management/ crop protection/ post-harvest technology in agriculture and allied sectors like Veterinary/ Fishery and Forestry Sciences. It has generated appropriate location specific technologies through its research network, adoption of some of which has significantly contributed to increasing the agricultural production keeping pace with the population growth of the State.

Under the crop improvement programme the University has released 108 high yielding crop varieties including 50 rice varieties suitable for different agro-ecological situations of the State.

Detailed crop varieties released by OUAT

Many of the crop varieties like LALAT, KHANDAGIRI, PARIJAT, KONARK, SURENDRA, in rice, SMRUTI in groundnut, UMA, USHA and PRACHI in sesame, SUPRAVA, SURUCHI and SUBRABHI in Ginger, ROMA, SUROMA, RANGA and RASHMI in turmeric, UTKAL TARINI, UTKAL MADHURI, UTKAL KESHRl in Brinjal, UTKAL PALLAVI, UTKAL DIPTI, UTKAL KUMARI and UTKAL URVASI in Tomato, UTKAL RASMI and UTKAL AVA in chilly and UTKAL GAURAV in okra have been accepted by the farming community and are in wide adoption in the State of Orissa.

In the field of crop production, technologies relating to cropping systems, Integrated farming system, fertilizer management, water management, weed management and modern agronomic practices for higher yield with sustainability and profitability under different agro-ecological situations of the state have been generated by the University and are in wide adoption.

Dry land farming technologies, information on soil and moisture conservation including crop varieties suitable for drought prone areas, agri-silvi, silvi-pastoral, agri-horticultural systems, development of appropriate farm implements have also contributed immensely for improvement of productivity and production in agriculture. Integrated pest management strategies, biological and chemical control strategies for important crops have been developed and refined. Adoption of these eco-friendly pest management strategies has resulted in economic benefit to the farming community of the State.

The technologies generated in the field of apiculture and mushroom production have been quite useful in increasing honey and mushroom production in Orissa.

Research in animal and fishery sciences also made progress in the state. Still it requires more attention to fulfill the crying need in the field of animal resource management to meet the requirement of the people.

1. Mushroom

2. Vegetable

3. Forage

4. Rice

5. Weed Control

6. Oil Seed

7. Tissue Culture

8. Apiculture

9. Efficient Farming Tools & Implements

10. Animal Production

11. Crop Varieties Released by OUAT

12. Various Ginger Varieties

IMPACT OF RESEARCH AND EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

The higher education programmes in the fields of agriculture and allied sectors undertaken by the University during the last 42 years of its existence could meet the bulk need of trained manpower of the state. Graduates and post graduates produced by this University are now manning various projects and programmes in Government and private sectors.

Agricultural production in the state has increased significantly keeping pace with the population growth of the state. As compared to the production and productivity levels in 1962-63 the production of cereals, food grains oilseeds and vegetables have increased from 38.04, 43.23, 1.15 and 27.29 lakh tones to 75.36, 82.33, 5.40 and 73.99 lakh tones in 2001-02 registering 98, 90, 370 and 171 per cent increase respectively. Cropping intensity and fertilizer consumption have also increased from 119 to 151 per cent and 0.80 kg to 41.0 kg/ha. Availability of food grains in the state is quite comfortable. This splendid achievement could be made because of the success in the efforts of Agricultural University, ICAR research institutes, Government policies, and the line Departments of the State and Central Government, Nongovernmental organizations, organizations in agricultural input trades, banks and farming communities.

The three rice varieties released by OUAT, viz. Lalat, Parijat and Khandagiri cover about two third of 2.5 lakh hectare summer rice area of the State registering 300 kg/ha additional yield. Besides, the crop/ vegetable varieties released by OUAT and adopted by farmers of the State has substantially increased the agricultural production of Kharif crops.

Research and extension activities of the University on mushroom have achieved success in the establishment of 53 spawn production units and boosting up mushroom production significantly generating self employment to more than 7000 people. Presently about 10 tones/day of mushroom is produced in the State.

Introduction of the Italian bee has brought out improvement in honey production with 169 m.tones annually in the State.

REORIENTATION OF RESEARCH

While attending to the location specific research needs based on identification of production constraints on zonal basis, research efforts must have to be strengthened on natural resource management (optimal utilization of land, water soil) with an objective to minimize degradation of environmental foundation, on INM, IPM and production oriented research to make the farm produces competitive price-wise and quality-wise so as to promote their export. Soil and water related problems, particularly in Orissa, must have to be attended to.

Research efforts which are in infancy in the field of frontier and emerging areas like plant and animal biotechnology, agrometeorology, post-harvest technology, value addition through primary and secondary processing of agricultural produces have to be brought to the forefront.

Field crops oriented research
Development of rice production technology for handicapped ecology, i.e. rainfed upland, lowland, water logged areas, acid soils, iron toxic fields and Rainfed acid degraded uplands.

Development of hybrid rice for increasing rice productivity.

Genetic enhancement of aromatic short grain rice for higher productivity and export.

Development of semi tall high yielding rice varieties with early seedling vigour and drought tolerance.

Cropping system management for sustainability and higher factor of productivity.

Varietal improvement and development optimal packages of practices for pulses and oilseeds for increasing its productivity.

Development of cold tolerant variety of green gram and black gram.

Modelling of crops for higher productivity suitable to a particular agro-climatic zone by manipulating morpho-physiological characteristics.

Organic farming.

Precision Agriculture.

Horticulture
Development of appropriate horticulture based cropping/ farming systems for different agro-climatic zones.

Developing suitable technologies for protected cultivation of export oriented vegetables and flowers.

Developing rapid tools, bio-techniques and technologies for genetic manipulation for vegetative propagation, seed multiplication, micro-propagation through tissue culture and True Potato Seed (TPS) production.

Development of Integrated Pest Management System to reduce input cost, environmental pollution to avoid problems of pesticide residues in horticulturaI crops.

Hybrid Technology in Horticulture.

Agronomy of medicinal plants.

Natural Resource Management
v Water Resource Management

v Rain Water Management

v Soil Resource Management

v Nutrient Management

Animal Science and Fisheries
Development of diagnostic kits for control of diseases in livestock and poultry.

Research on improvement of meat quality and meat production in goats of Orissa through selection.

Survey of different species of livestock of Orissa to know the economic potentiality for different traits.

Value addition to bad catches of fishes.

Research on micro- nutrients in health and production of livestock and poultry.

Drought power of crossbreed bullocks in different agroclimatic zones.

Sweet water prawn culture.

Agril. Engineering
Post-Harvest Technology and value addition.

Development of low cost energy saving and efficient implements for handicapped ecology.

Development of rice transplanter and mat seedling technology to reduce cost of cultivation.

Development of animal drawn weeders.

Agro-Forestry
Technology for development of fodder, fuel and small timber.

Research on forest tree seed technology and agro-forestry models.

Social Science
Policy Research for Sustainable Agriculture and Poverty Alleviation.

Impact Assessment, priority setting and resource allocation with special reference to food security.

International Trade.

Market intelligence study.

Resource optimization in livestock production.

Agriculture information management.

Socio-economic and cultural constraints for adoption of technology.

Others
Pesticide residue management

Management of Agrochemicals.

Development of standard Neem products for management of key agricultural pests.

Management of Wastes.