Crop/Enterprise

Thrust area

Paddy and Vegetables

Seed replacement and Integrated Crop Management

Vegetable Crops

Introduction and popularizing of HYVs and INM

Temperate Fruit Crops

Apple

Strawberry

• Pollination improvement and scientific Training and pruning in Apple.

• High density apple plantation.

• Crop Diversification with emphasis on crops like strawberry.

• IDM, INM and promotion of use of organics, micro nutrients, and on-farm nutrient cycling

Vegetables

Vegetables

Lettuce, Broccoli

Vegetables and Fruit crops

• Development of Peri-urban agriculture

• Off-season vegetable cultivation and cultivation under protected conditions.

• Exotic vegetable cultivation.

• Nutrition Kitchen gardening.

Poultry and Dairy

Promotion and Scientific management of livestock and poultry farming.

Home Science

Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Home Science

• Child and women care and awareness on balanced nutrition in backward areas of the district.

• Capacity building of rural women and Fisherwomen.

• Self help group formation of skilled women.

• Vocational training.

Capacity Building

Emphasis on Agro-based Income generating activities for mitigation of rural unemployment.

Soil and Water Conservation

Soil and Water Conservation

• Awareness on Natural Resource conservation, environmental protection and efficient resource management.

• Special emphasis on Dal and Anchar Lakes and Hill areas.