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up Deputy Director-General (Natural Resource Management) is the Head of the Division, and is assisted by 3 Assistant Directors-General (ADGs) – ADG (Soils), ADG (Agronomy and Agroforestry), ADG (Integrated Water Management); two Principal Scientists and one Senior Scientist. The division has 6 Research Institutes, 3 Research Complexes, 1 Bureau, 1 Project Directorate, 2 National Research Centres, 11 All-India Co-ordinated Research Projects and 3 Network Projects.
Thrust Areas
- Inventorization, characterization and monitoring of natural resources using modern tools and techniques.
- Development of Sustainable land use plans for different agro-ecological sub-regions in the country.
- Devising cost effective methods of resource conservation and reclamation.
- Enhancing fertilizer, water and other inputs use efficiency through monetary and non- monetary measures.
- Integrated plant nutrient management combining inorganic fertilizers, organic manures/composts and bio-fertilizers for sustained soil health and crop productivity.
- Multiple uses of water to enhance productivity and livelihood.
- On-farm water management to enhance water-use efficiency .
- Standardization of micro-irrigation and fertigation systems.
- Development of cost-effective drainage technology including bio-drainage for saline and waterlogged lands.
- Utilization of poor and marginal quality waters for agriculture.
- Development of location specific model watersheds in various agro ecological zones of the rainfed areas for resource conservation, enhancing productivity and livelihood generation.
- Agro-eco-zone specific diversification of agriculture.
- Developing package of practices for organic farming.
- Developing location specific integrated farming systems involving agriculture, horticulture, livestock and fisheries etc to enhance productivity, income and livelihood.
- Agro-forestry systems to support supplies of fodder, fuel, industrial wood, small timber and biofuel on a sustainable basis.
- Technology development for coastal shelter belts.
- Development of weather-based expert systems for enhanced production and improvement in agro met advisory services.
- Monitoring of climate change and adaptation to mitigate its adverse effects on agricultural production systems.
Watershed Management |
Integrated Farming System |
Liming of Acid Soils |
Achievements
- Prepared soil maps of the country (1:1 million scale), states (1:250,000 scale) and several districts (1:50,000 scale).
- Prepared soil degradation map of the country (1:4.4 million scale) and soil erosion maps for states (1:250,000 scale) for effective resource conservation planning.
- Twenty agro-ecological regions and sixty agro-ecological sub-regions of the country have been delineated and mapped on 1:4.4 million scale.
- A network of 47 model watersheds developed, making a basis for the National Watershed Development Programme for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA).
- Developed soil and water conservation/bio-engineering measures for mountainous watersheds that reduced runoff from 42 to 14% and the soil loss from 11 to 2 tonnes/ha.
- The techniques of sand-dune stabilization and shelter-belt plantation have been developed for arresting movement of sand-dunes and deposition of sand in canals in arid zone.
- Alternate farming systems to shifting cultivation increasing cropping intensity and productivity in hills have been developed.
- Devised drip and sprinkler irrigation systems saving water (30-50%), labour (50%), fertilizer (30-40%) and increasing yields (12-76%).
- A pressurized irrigation system fed through a reservoir in adjunct to the canal system for irrigation either by pumping or by gravity was developed with benefit-cost ratio of 2.6.
- Water harvesting structures for different dry land/rainfed situations developed.
·- Devised recharge filters for sediment free runoff water in open wells and tube wells .
- Design parameters of runoff recycling based irrigation system have been developed and evaluated.
- The soil carbon stocks under different land use systems of the country documented.
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Institutional Links
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Central
Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur |
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Central
Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture,
Hyderabad |
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Central
Soil & Water Conservation Research &
Training Institute, Dehradun, Uttaranchal |
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Central
Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana |
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ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, Bihar |
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ICAR
Research Complex for Goa, Ela Old, Goa |
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ICAR
Research Complex for NEH Region, Barapani,
Meghalaya |
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Indian
Institute of soil Science, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh |
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National
Bureaue of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning,
Nagpur, Maharashtra |
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National
Research Centre for Agro Forestry, IGFRI Campus,
Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh |
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National
Research Centre fof Weed Sciences, Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh |
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Water
Technology Centre for Eastern Region,
Bhubaneshwar, Orissa |
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Project
Directorate for Cropping System, Meerut, Uttar
Pradesh |
All
India Coordinated Research Projects
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AICRP
on Agroforestry, NRC on Agroforestry, Jhansi,
Uttar Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Biological Nitrogen Fixation, IISS, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Cropping Systems, PDCSR, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Diara Lands, Directorate of Water Management
Research, Patna, Bihar |
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AICRP
on Dryland Agriculture, CRIDA Campus, Hyderabad |
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AICRP
on Long-Term Fertilizer Experiment, IISS, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Microbiological Decomposition, IISS, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Micronutrients and Secondary Nutrients and
Pollutant Elements, IISS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Soil Test and Crop Response, IISS, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Soil Physical Constraints, IISS, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Management of Salt-affected Soils and Saline
Water in Agriculture, CSSRI, Karnal, Haryana |
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AICRP
on Water Management, MPKV, Rahuri, Maharashtra |
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AICRP
on Weed Control, NRC Weed Sciences, Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Ground Water, Directorate of Water Management
Research, Patna , Bihar |
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AICRP
on Agricultural Meteorology, CRIDA Campus,
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh |
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