The district Rajkot mainly falls in north Saurashtra agro-climatic zone. The total geographical area of North Saurashtra Agro Climatic Zone is 35.2 Lacs ha. Out of total area, 73.40 per cent area falls under arid and semi-arid region. The soils of this zone are shallow to moderately deep. The soils of Rajkot district is low in their availability of nitrogen while medium in phosphorus and high in available potash except the available phosphorus and potash is in medium category in adopted villages. Monsoon commences usually by the end of June and withdraws by middle of September. Average annual rainfall of districts is 648 mm while 497.5 mm during 2014-15.

 

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Research Paper

Sr. No	Title	Name of Journal	Month & Year	Author
1	Boosting chickpea production through front line demonstrations under NFSM project in Rajkot district of Gujarat State	“National Seminar on Extension Strategies for Doubling the Farmers' Income for Livelihood Security”	April 2018	H.A. Manvar, M. A. Vakaliya, B. B. Kabaria
2	Impact Of Climate Resilient Technology In Nicra Village Of Rajkot District Of Gujarat	“National Seminar on Extension Strategies for Doubling the Farmers' Income for Livelihood Security”	April 2018	M. M. Tajpara1; M. A. Vakaliya2 and B. N. Kalsariya
3	Adoption Of State Agricultural University Recommended Cotton Cultivation Practices By The Cotton Growers In Morbi District Of Gujarat	“National Seminar on Extension Strategies for Doubling the Farmers' Income for Livelihood Security”	April 2018	M. M. Tajpara1; M. A. Vakaliya2 and B. N. Kalsariya
4	Role of Self Help Groups in Women Empowerment and Health	Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture and Nutrition Literacy International Conference	14-16 May , 2018	H.A. Manvar, J. B. Kathiriya and D. S. Thakar
5	Nutritional Security and income generation through kitchen gardening in Porbandar district of Gujarat	“	“	D. S. Thakar P. J. Gohil H. H. Padasumbiya R. K. Odedra

Booklet :

Name	Author	Year
Safal kheduto ni prernadayi gathao	H. A. Manvar, B. B. Kabaria, D. P. sanepara , M. M. Tajpara,  J. H. Chaudhary	2018-19

Details of Various Extension Activities:

Sr. No.	Type of Training	No. of Training	No. of Participant
1	Farmers	55	1423
2	Rural youth	5	155
3	Extn. Functionaries	3	64
	Total	63	1642

Extension Activities (including activities of FLD programmes)

Activities	No. of programmes	No. of farmers	No. of Extension Personnel	TOTAL
Advisory Services	23	142	13	155
Diagnostic visits	4	69	8	77
Field Day	3	63	2	65
Group discussions	5	88	-	88
KisanGhosthi	11	265	2	267
Film Show	13	1692	18	1710
Self -help groups	1	26	1	27
Kisan Mela	3	-	-	-
Exhibition	2	948	9	957
Scientists' visit to farmers field	18	104	-	104
Plant/animal health camps	1	102	5	107
Farm Science Club	-	-	-	-
Ex-trainees Sammelan	1	181	3	184
Farmers' seminar/workshop	2	345	4	349
Method Demonstrations	10	178	-	178
Celebration of important days	6	1055	12	1067
Special day celebration	3	505	-	505
Exposure visits	4	219	5	224
Others (pl.specify)
Total	110	5982	82	6064

DETAILS OF EACH ON FARM TRIAL (OFT)

Farmer	Name of the farmer	Name of the Village	Yield ( Kg/ha )				White grub infestation (%)
No			T1	T2	T3	T4	T1	T2	T3	T4
1	KVK Farm	Targhadia	830	580	430	790	2	18	22	3.5
Average

Farmer	Name of the farmer	Name of the Village	Yield ( q/ha )		Soil Moisture content (%)
No			T1	T2	T1	T2
1	KVK Farm	Targhadia	6.28	6.85	24.25	27.35
Average			6.28	6.85	24.25	27.35

Farmer	Name of the farmer	Name of the Village	Yield ( q/ha )		Soil Moisture content (%)
No			T1	T2	T1	T2
1	Babubhai Ramani	Khorana	33.50	38.75	25.50	28.80
Average			33.50	38.75	25.50	28.80

Technology Option	No. of trials	Physical stress	Tool factor
No use of stool while milking	1	High	Medium Relevant
Revolving milking stool (height of 12-13 cm with diameter 34 cm)		Low	Highly Relevant

Achievements of Frontline Demonstrations :

Crop	Thematic Area	technology demon-strated	Variety	No. of Farmers	Area (ha)	Yield (q/ha)				% Increase in yield	Economics of demonstration (Rs./ha)				Economics of  check (Rs./ha)
						Demo			Check		Gross Cost	Gross Return	Net Return	BCR (R/C)	Gross Cost	Gross Return	Net Return	BCR (R/C)
						High	Low	Average
Groundnut	Varietal evaluation	Varietal evaluation	GJG-22	10	4.0	28.30	14.10	19.90	18.20	9.34	33590	98850	65260	2.94	31870	90380	58510	2.83
Groundnut	Varietal evaluation	Varietal evaluation	GJG-9	10	4.0	18.20	15.32	16.10	15.00	7.33	31980	91970	59990	2.87	29950	85320	55370	2.84
Groundnut	Pest Management	IPM	-	10	4.0	41.25	6.25	18.62	17.50	6.42	32056	93122	61066	2.90	31120	81003	49883	2.60

Frontline demonstration on pulse crops :

Crop

Thematic Area

technology demon-strated

Variety

No. of Farmers

Area (ha)

Eq Yield (q/ha)

% Increase in yield

Economics of demonstration (Rs./ha)

Economics of  check (Rs./ha)

Demo

Check

Gross Cost

Gross Return

Net Return

BCR (R/C)

Gross Cost

Gross Return

Net Return

BCR (R/C)

High

Low

Average

Gram

Varietal evaluation

Varietal evaluation

GJG-3

10

4

31.25

11.25

18.62

15.75

18.25

19500

60225

40725

3.08

19300

51150

31850

2.65

Category & Crop

Thematic Area

Name of the technology

No. of Farmers

Area (ha)

Yield (q/ha)

% Change in Yield

Other Parameters

Economics of demonstration (Rs./ha)

Economics of check (Rs./ha)

Demo

Check

Demo

Check

Gross Cost

Gross Return

Net Return

BCR (R/C)

Gross Cost

Gross Return

Net Return

BCR (R/C)

High

Low

Average

Cumin

Pest Management

GC-4

10

4.0

22.5

5.0

9.68

8.20

18.14

40800

155000

114200

3.79

37560

131200

93640

3.49

Category	Thematic area	Name of the technology demonstrated	No. of Farmer	No.of Units (Animal/ Poultry/ Birds, etc)	Major parameters		% change in major parameter	Other parameter		Economics of demonstration (Rs.)				Economics of  check (Rs.)
					Demo	Check		Demo	Check	Gross Cost	Gross Return	Net Return	BCR (R/C)	Gross Cost	Gross Return	Net Return	BCR (R/C)
Buffalo	Nutrient Manage- ment	Bypass Protein (22%)	10	1	1605 kg/lactation	1495 kg/lactation	7.36	-	-	59840	79598	19758	1.33	53682	68512	14830	1.27
Buffalo	Nutrient Manage- ment	By Pass Fat	10	1	7.9% Fate	6.4% fat	23.43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Buffalo	Nutrient Manage- ment	Chelated mineral mixture	20	1	10.4	9.2	13.6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	fodder Manage- ment	Jinjvo	10	1	82 q/ha	70 q/ha	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Progress report of Others Projects (April 2018 to March 2019)

1. Attracting and Retaining Youth in Agriculture (ARYA) Project, KVK-Rajkot-1:

   Gujarat is third largest producer of oilseeds and covers 30% groundnut production of the country. The area and productivity of groundnut in the state was highest with 18.05 lakh ha and 1870 kg/ha respectively. Gujarat Ranks 4th in terms of Milk Production in the country which is about 8.1% of entire country. Due to difficulty in marketing the crops and support prices, farmers are selling agricultural produces and raw milk directly to local market and not getting satisfactory income. This may be supplemented by promoting the concepts of value addition of various agricultural commodities and milk processing enterprises at rural level. By utilization of available technologies like processing of oilseeds, spices, grains and milk at rural level and marketing of value added products, satisfactory income can be obtained at rural level.

   Rajkot district has population of 38,04,558 and out of which about to 65 % population is youth. Most of the people are engaged in farming and animal husbandry.The major crops grown in the district are groundnut, cotton, wheat, garlic, oninon and cumin. Farmers are earning from selling agricultural produces and raw milk directly to local market. This region has mostly rainfed area where the water scarcity is main issue. Lower price of agricultural commodities is the second most issue of the region. The youth of this village and surrounding area are migrated to Rajkot city for employment. Looking to the situation, KVK, Rajkot has taken up value addition and milk processing enterprises concept for Rajkot district.

    The ARYA project was started during the year 2015-16 at KVK Rajkot-1, Gujarat. At present KVK, Rajkot-1 is working for four talukas of Rajkot district namely (i) Jasdan (ii) Padadhari (iii) Vinchhiya (iv) Rajkot.  KVK, Rajkot-1 was identified for the objective of post-harvest technology, processing and value addition concept under ARYA project. Entrepreneurship development activities have been started with focus of processing, value addition, milk processing and nursery management.

1. Objectives of the ARYA Project: 

• To attract and empower the youth in rural areas to take up various agriculture, allied and service sector enterprises for sustainable income and gainful employment in selected districts.
• To enable the farm youth to establish network groups to take up resources and capital intensive activities like post-harvest technology, processing & value addition, nursery management, milk processing and marketing.
• To demonstrate functional linkage with different institutions and stakeholders for convergence of opportunities available under various schemes/program for sustainable development of youth

2. Major Activities Commenced:

    Activities like project awareness programmes, training and capacity building programmes, visits at developed enterprises and motivate youth for entrepreneurship; empowering youth in rural areas by processing, value addition and marketing of agricultural produces and functional linkage with different institutions were commenced under ARYA project.

2.1 Training / Project Awareness Programmes:

      The following Project awareness programmes/training and capacity building programmes are conducted under ARYA project:

Sr	Training	No. of Youth
1	Awareness training programme for ARYA Project	480
2	Post-harvest technology and value addition	110
3	Processing and value addition of agricultural commodities	90
4	Nursery management	42
5	Value addition through processing of milk	58
6	Processing and value addition of pulses	40
7	Processing of fruits/vegetables	77
8	Processing and value addition of oilseed  crops	123
9	Processing and value addition of spices crops	38
10	Value addition of pulses by making Namkeen	15

• One youth of Gadhaka village of Rajkot taluka has grown chilly and started making powder by processing  of chillies. He got net income of Rs. 15,000 from selling of green chilly and Rs. 77,000 from selling of dry chilly powder. So, he got net profit of  Rs. 67,000 per year from chilly crop in 0.3 ha land.
• Three family member at Bhadva village of Kotada Sangani taluka started value addition in sugarcane through making “Herbal Jaggery”. They earned net profit of Rs. 1.5 lac per acre land per year by selling “Herbal Jaggery” made from sugarcane.
• One youth at Adabalaka village of Paddhari taluka started value addition of turmeric by making powder and he got net income of Rs. 3.37 lac per season from one acre of land.
• One youth at Khijadia village of Rajkot taluka started dairy farming and earning  upto Rs. 4.2 lac per year through his dairy unit.
• Two youths at Pipaliyaraj village of Wankaner taluka started vegetable plug nursery and earning  upto Rs. 3,00,000 per year.

• Mini Dall Mill Unit:-Kherdi Village (Rajkot taluka)   
• Mini Grading and Cleaning Machine Unit:-Dungarka Village (Paddhari taluka) 
• Nursery unit :- Sompar Village (Vichhiya talika)

• Linkage of farmers with government agencies/NGOs like ATAMA, DRDA, Department of  Horticulture, Department  of Animal Husbandry, District Industrial Centre, JAU,  Deputy Director of Agriculture and District Development Agency for bankable projects, subsidy, and other assistance.
• Institutional Visit/Lecture for Exposure  of different govt. schemes provided by Agriculture Co-operation and Farmer Welfare Department of Gujarat, Director of Horticulture, Directorate of Animal Husbandry – Gujarat Govt., NABARD, NHB, and MSME – Govt. of India.
• Guidance of market linkage and visit to various marketing agencies, wholesale market, D-mart or other grocery mall to promote value added product with “ARYA” Brand name.
• We also finalized ARYA brand for labeling and packing of end products prepared by promoted enterprises under ARYA project. For that various marketing strategies will be implemented.

2.  NICRA Project

 

7.    Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav (MGMG)

Background information / Introduction

     On the basis of agro climatic conditions, soil types, and cropping pattern; Gujarat has been divided into eight agro climatic zones. Rajkot district falls under North Saurashtra Agro climatic Zone. The total geographical area of North Saurashtra Agro Climatic Zone is 35.2 Lack ha. Out of total area, 73.40 per cent area falls under arid and semi-arid region. The soils of this zone are shallow to moderately deep. The soils of Rajkot district is medium in their availability of nitrogen while low in phosphorus and high in available potash except the available phosphorus and potash is in medium category in adopted villages. Monsoon commences usually by the middle of June and withdraws by middle of September. Average annual rainfall of districts is 1214.6 mm. Monsoon in this area commences in the end of June and retreats by the middle of September. Most of the precipitation is received from South – West monsoon, concentrating in the month of July and August. The maximum rainfall and number of rainy days are observed in July. The winter season sets by the end of October. This district is situated near seashore hence; there are no drastic fluctuations in the temperature. The average maximum and minimum temperatures are 42.0° C and 16.9 °C respectively. Overall climate of this station is humid and convenient for coastal crops

    The main crops of the region are groundnut, cotton, wheat, cumin, onion, garlic, castor, green gram, black gram, pearl millet, etc.

    Seasonal vegetables are also grown in limited area. Lift irrigation through tube well & dug well are the main sources of irrigation.

Sr. No.	Name of Institute	Total No. of Group	No. of Scientist Involved	No. of Village covered
1	KVK, Targhadia	2	4	10

Activities organized by KVK-Targhadia, Rajkot-I under MGMG

S. No.	Name of activity	No. of activities conducted	No. of benefitted
1	Visit to village by teams	4	67
2	Interface meeting/ Goshthies	5	90
3	Training organized	4	109
4	Demonstrations conducted	43	43
5	Mobile based advisories	2	25
6	Literature Support Provided	8	80
7	Awareness Created	2	93

Sr. No.	Crop/ Enterprise	Tech. Demons treated	Inputs	No. of Farm-ers	Area (ha.)/ No.	Demo. Yield Qtl/ha			Yield of local Check Qtl./ha	Incr-ease in yield (%)
						H	L	A
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1	Groundnut	Varietal evaluation	GJG-22	50	20	31.25	5.00	16.16	15.00	7.75

Economics of demonstration (Rs./ha)				Economics of  check (Rs./ha)
Gross Cost	Gross Return	Net Return	BCR (R/C)	Gross Cost	Gross Return	Net Return	BCR (R/C)
12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
32750	93754	61004	2.86	31790	81570	49780	2.56

Details of Training and other extension activities

Nature of Extension Activity	No. of activities	Total Participants
1	2	3
On + Off campus Training	4	107
Kisan Ghosthi	2	58
Film Show	3	121
Group meetings	3	78
Scientific visit to farmers field	3	39
Farmers visit to KVK	5	45
Extension Literature distribute	550	-