The Professor & Head,
National Pulse Research Centre,
Vamban, Pudukkottai – 622 303.
Ph. No. : 04322 - 296447
E mail ID: arsvamban@tnau.ac.in
National Pulses Research Centre, Pudukkottai is located at Vamban 12 km from Pudukkottai to Pattukottai Road.. It comes under southern Agro climatic of Tamil Nadu. NPRC, Vamban is the leading pulses research centre under TNAU. NPRC is identified as main centre for research on black gram and green gram and sub centre for Red gram by ICAR. One Krishi Vigyan Kendra is also functioning at Vamban for the transfer technology activities in which multidisciplinary scientists are working.
S.No | Particulars | 2007 - 08 | 2008 - 09 | 2009 - 10 | 2010 - 11 | 2011 - 12 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Improved production technology for Maize (ha) | 59 | 51 | 40 | 150 | ||
2 | Model village and organic farming | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
3 | Quality seed production (ha) | ||||||
Rice | 10 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 50 | |
Black gram | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
4 | SRI in rice (ha) | 115 | 110 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 300 |
5 | Casurina saucer planting method | 83 | 60 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 200 |
6 | Production technology for garden land pulses (ha) | 112 | 105 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 300 |
7 | Equipments for farm mechanization | SRI Rotary weeder - 1500 |
S. No. |
Name of the Intervention |
Yield Details (kg ha-1) |
% of Increase over control |
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2007-08 |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
Mean |
|||||||
Control |
Treatment |
Control |
Treatment |
Control |
Treatment |
Control |
Treatment |
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1 |
SRI |
- |
5030 |
3983 |
5359 |
5242 |
8579 |
4612 |
6322 |
37.07 |
2 |
Pulses |
488 |
794 |
524 |
814 |
- |
- |
506 |
804 |
38.16 |
3 |
Maize |
- |
5474 |
3280 |
4232 |
- |
- |
3280 |
4853 |
32.41 |
4 |
IPT in groundnut |
- |
- |
1798 |
2404 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
25.21 |
5 |
IPT for rice fallow pulse |
- |
- |
- |
- |
541 |
825 |
541 |
825 |
52.49 |
6 |
Casuarina saucer planting |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
Modern village on organic farming |
- |
496 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |