Directorate of Farms

Madhya Pradesh is the second largest state in the country in terms of area with a total geographical area of 308 lakh hectares, constituting 9 percent of the total geographic area of the country. It ranks sixth with a total population of 72 million, out of which 72% resides in rural area. The state is known for its abundant natural resources including forest, minerals, rivers and valleys. There are 11 agro-climatic zones, five crop zones and varying land use, soil types, rainfall and water resources, distributed across 51 districts in the state. Also, a significant proportion of tribals and dalits reside in the state together comprising 35% of the total state population.
 



The state economy of Madhya Pradesh is predominantly rural and agrarian in nature. Agriculture sector is the mainstay of the state’s economy and is the only sector providing employment and livelihood options to majority of the rural population in the state. According to Census 2011, 69.8% of the total workers and 85.6% of the total workers in rural areas are largely dependent on agriculture for livelihood in Madhya Pradesh. This comprises 31.2% cultivators and 38.6% agriculture labours. The sector is also contributing 24.9% to State’s GDP at constant prices (2004-05 prices) and 33.6% at current prices. Hence, the positive and consistent growth rate of this sector is of immense importance to drive the state economy, especially the rural economy. It also it has a great potential in influencing the state as well as the national economy in environmentally sustaining ways.
There are numerous empirical evidence showcasing the correlation of positive agriculture growth and socio-economic development status of the citizens by way of making a dent on poverty, ensuring food and nutritional security, raising income levels and employment opportunities etc. It is also true that a thriving rural livelihood will lead to more refined urban life by reducing the migration from rural areas and putting less pressure on urban infrastructure and services.

Ø  Seed Production System of JNKVV

Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya is the primer Institution for seed production and distribution in the country. It caters around 15% of breeder seed requirement of the nation. Our customers include National and State Seed Corporations, State Farms Corporation of India, State Department of Agriculture, Horticulture & Farm Forestry and Animal Husbandry, State Seed Corporative, KRIBHCO, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, National Dairy Development Board, Bharat Krishak Samaj, National and multinational seed companies, progressive farmers, Oil Federations and several organizations directly/indirectly involved in seed production activities. The University has attained expertise in production, processing and management of seeds of cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fodder seeds, vegetables, spices, sugarcane, medicinal and aromatic plants seed within the well conceived frame work of “Single Window System” of operation.
At JNKVV, the important features of the seed production programme are the maintenance breeding and effective monitoring system. Diversification of nucleus/ breeder seed production programme with a view to meet the growing demand of quality seeds. Resources JNKVV has 1200 ha of cultivated land available for research and seed production activities. Out of this, around 844.08 ha of land is being put under the seed production. Centers are adequately equipped for seed production. There is need to accelerate the pace of farm mechanization, improve seed processing, irrigation and storage facilities at other production centers. Production and management of quality seed is one of the major activity of JNKVV. In all, 30 farms are in operation covering six agro-climatic zones . The details of farms under operation is given below:

NAME OF THE FARM

NAME OF THE FARM I/C

MOBILE NUMBER

ZARS, Chhindwara

G.K. Mahajan

9479648234

7999556453

Mohgaon

G.K. Mahajan

-do-

Tendani

G.K. Mahajan

-do-

RARS, Dindori

D.N. Shrivash

9424688898

Garhakota

S. K. Mishra

9174140768

College Farm Ganjbasoda

O. P. Dhurve

9826450141

BSP (FC) JBP

Anita Babbar

R. L. Kulste

9893278445

8817157505

BSP(GN) JBP

S.S. Chouhan

8823094047

BSP(Soy ) JBP

S.K. Singh

Nikhil Diwedi

7000030929

9827755636

BSP(Veg) JBP

S.K. Singh

7000030929

ARS, Kuthulia

S.M. Kurmwanshi

9827013466

ZARS, Powarkheda

A. N. Ninama

R. K. Meshram

8839797371

9179761772

College Farm Rewa

B. K. Tiwari

Md. GufranUsmani

9424954273

8357863131

RARS, Sagar

B. S. Solanki

9893638105

KVK, bijora (deori) Sagar-II

Ashish Kumar Tripathi

9826241232

College Farm Tikamgarh

P. K. Tyagi

7000829296

RARS, Waraseoni

N.K. Bisen

9424866714

KVK Badgaon

S. R. Dhuware

9424752492

KVK Betul

V. K. Verma

9425637718

KVK Damoh

Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi

9993532337

KVK Harda

Pushpa Jharia

8319358856

KVK Katni

KeshavDwivedi

7000603650

KVK Mandla

Neel Kamal Pandre

9993419484

ORAI Mandla

Neel Kamal Pandre

9993419484

KVK Narsinghpur

Vijay Singh Suryawansi

9340228449

KVK Nawgaon

Rajeev Singh

8349023227

KVK Panna

Ranvijay Singh

9752824476

KVK Seoni

N. K. Singh

9981828648

KVK Sidhi

Dhananjay Singh

9424641061

KVK Umaria

K. P. Tiwari

9425888060

SRS, Bohani

AshishTiwari

9425867065

  • Seed Management System

S. No.

Name

Post

Contact Number

1

R. S. Shukla

Director Farms

9424676727

2

Ajay Jaiswal

AOF

7879263299

3

Shyam Lal Patel

Field Extension Officer

7974955640



Ø    Activities




  Ø  Functioning of Single Window System  

The execution of system envisages planning, production, monitoring, processing, marketing and supply of seeds to the indenters from a single window. It is being operated through Directorate of Farms of the University. The system has been effective for the successful implementation of seed production programme. The Nodal Centers for the programme is under operation at Jabalpur with three satellite centres viz., Rewa, Tikamgarh and Powarkhed located at Zonal Agriculture Research Stations.

  Ø  Support from ICAR

 
Financial assistance has been made available from ICAR under National Seed Project since the year 1983. The project has also been strengthened in terms of infrastructure and man power in the year 1993. The project has developed the large operational system which utilizes the internal scientific/technical resources of the University to produce high quality breeder seed. The system is strongly supported by maintenance breeding programme. The main sources of funding are:

  • Field Crops – ICAR
  • Soybean & Groundnut – GOI
  • Spices – Govt. of MP & GOI
  • Medicinal & Aromatics – GOI
  • Mega Seed Project – ICAR
  • Seed Legume Project – GOI
  • Seed Village Project – ICAR
  • Tribal Sub Plan – ICAR
  • Scheduled Cast Sub Plan- ICAR
  • RKVY- GOI
  • Additional Breeder Seed Production of Pulses (ABSP)- GOI
  • Additional Breeder Seed Production of Millets Crops- GOI

The University has been selected as one of the major participating institutions in the breeder seed production programme of GoI.

Ø  Seed Production Planning

Seed production programmes of all the crops are being planned based on indents of national and state seed corporation through ICAR, private seed sector, seed market intelligence reports and based on previous year sales and demands. The total indent of all the sectors put together is being planned on the basis of suitability of the selected varieties to different agro-climatic zones of MP. The entire production programme is being developed with the consent of officer-in-charge of farms and controlling officer at zonal level every year. The change in programme is permissible subject to the approval of Directorate of Farms. The programme includes :

Ø  Crop improvement

A dynamic seed sector can be developed with continuous release of improved varieties and hybrids from crop research programmes. To ensure the crop research programmes, strong support is provided from the State so that superior varieties and hybrids can be developed. Hence, due to continuous efforts every year a large number of varieties are released at State as well as at National level.

Ø  Seed production programme

Jawahar Seed is being produced from Breeder Seed in the area after the coverage of nucleus/breeder seed by employing standerd quality mechanism in the seed multiplication chain.

Ø  Seed extension activities

The surplus breeder/Jawahar seed of improved varieties of various crops is being made available to the farmers to create seed demands.

Ø  Seed distribution mechanisms

      The breeder seed produced is being supplied against the indents. The surplus breeder seed is being made available to indenters on first cum first served basis. Jawahar seed is being supplied directly to the farmers through seed counters of the university at a reasonable cost.



Ø  Maintenance Breeding

The maintenance breeding is one of the important activities of seed production programme of the University. The programme involves a dedicated team of crop scientists located at various research stations to maintain the varieties. Crop varieties are being maintained by Single Plant Selection (SPS) grown in progeny rows. The SPS bulk seed is multiplied to produce breeder seed depending up on the indents.

Maintenance Breeding of Kharif & Rabi crops