Current Projects

Institute Projects

Enhancement in the Productivity of Major Hill Crops

      Genetic Enhancement for Productivity and Quality in Wheat

      Genetic Enhancement for Productivity and Quality in Maize

      Genetic Enhancement for Productivity and Quality in Rice

      Genetic Enhancement for Productivity and Nutritional Quality in Millets and Under-Utilized  Crops

      Genetic Enhancement for Productivity, Cooking and Proximate Quality in Pulses and Oilseeds

      Genetic Enhancement for Productivity and Quality in Vegetable Crops

      Enhancing Quality and Resistance to Biotic Stress through Molecular Breeding

Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Productivity

   Development of Integrated Farming System Modules for Different Farm Holdings.

   Enhancing Productivity and Profitability of Major Hill Crops through Diversification  and

      Reduction in Cost of Cultivation.

   Improving Nutrient Use Efficiency and utilization of Biological and Mineral Wastes to Supplement Nutrient Requirement of Hill Crops

   Characterization and Evaluation of Agriculturally Important Microbes for Enhancing Productivity of Hill Crops

   Monitoring of Pesticides Load and Persistence in Fruits and vegetables Grown in different Parts

      of Uttarakhand.

   Design and Development of Small Tools and Farm Machineries for Hill Agriculture.

   Wasteland Management with Special Reference to Production of Fodder and Fuel-wood

   Water Harvesting and Management of Water Resources for Higher Use-efficiencies in Crop Production

   Post Harvest Technology for value Addition and Marketing of Agricultural Produce (Through AICRP)

   Use of Plastic in Agriculture Particularly in Protected Cultivation, Water Harvesting and Packaging (Through (AICRP)

Integrated Pest Management

      Development of Integrated Pest Management Modules for French Bean and Cauliflower.

      Integrated Management of Bacterial Wilt in Solanaceous Vegetables

      Development of Low Cost Environment Friendly Technology for the Management of White

         Grubs

      Biodiversity of Bacillus thuringiensis in Himalayan Hills and their Utilization in Insect Control.

Socio-economic Studies and Transfer of Technology

      Information Technology System Management

      Study on Adoption of Improved Crop Varieties of the Institute in the Mandate Area

      Economics of Hill farming Systems and its Implication on Efficiency, Employment and Investment Pattern.

      Development of Need Based Computer Programs

   Validation of organic and ICM modules for cultivation of vegetables

   Production of quality seed and planting materials - Vegetables

   On farm sustainable production and demonstration of fruits and vegetables based farming systems.

   Training and demonstration of efficient water management through micro irrigation system is terraced land for growing vegetables

   Network project on implementing IPM in vegetables in Uttarakhand hills

   Demonstration of existing mushroom production technoligies

   Training and Demonstration of Growing Off Season Vegetables Under Protected Cultivation

   Quality Seed Production of Capsicum and Squash Under Protected Cultivation

   Network Project on Development of Entomopathogens and Light Trap for the Management of Scarabaeids in Uttarakhand Hills

   Network Project on Planned Honeybee Pollination for Improvement in Horticultural Crop Production

   Status of horticulture and market opportunities in the state of Uttarakhand

 

Project under Application of Microorganisms in Agriculture  and Allied Sectors (AMAAS)

 

   Development of a bacterial consortium to alleviate cold stress (PI - Dr P.K. Mishra)

   Development of a cold tolerant phosphate solubilizing bacterial inoculant (PI- G. Selvakumar)

 

Competitive Grant Projects

 

   Exploitation of Winter Wheat Gene Pool for the Improvement of Spring Wheat

 

Other Projects

 

   National Seed Project (since 1986)

   Application of Plastics in Agriculture (AICRP Project)

   Post Harvest Technology (AICRP Project)

 

 

NAIP Projects

 

  Enhancement of Livelihood Security through Sustainable Farming Systems and Related Farm Enterprises in North-West Himalaya

     Name of the Consortium Leader:     Dr. J.C. Bhatt, Director

     Principal Investigator:                       Dr. P.K Agrawal

     Institution (Lead Centre): Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan    (ICAR), Almora.

    Consortium Partners:

1. SKUAST-K, Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir)

2. SKUAST-J, Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir)

3. Ch SKHPKV, Palampur (Himachal Pradesh)

4. University of Forestry & Horticulture, Ranichauri, (Uttarakhand)

5. CSWCRTI, Dehradun (Uttarakhand)

6. GBPIHED, Kosi-Katarmal (Uttarakhand)

7. IIT, Delhi (Delhi)

8. BAIF, Haridwar (Uttarakhand)

 

	Enabling Small Holders to Improve Their Livelihoods and Benefit from Carbon Finance (Under NAIP Component - I)

Objectives
	To obtain the approval of SMART CDM framework and validate it, including the tool box in the Indian context in four major ecological setting; semi arid, arid, humid and sub temperate ecologies.
	To train the Indian teams of scientists on the use of the above framework and the tool box for formalizing the carbon trading protocols, including application writing , validation of applications.
	To pilot test small holder carbon trading options in different carbon stock exchanges, markets and other legal tenders.
	To develop a generic manual on the application of carbon trading options and scaling up approaches of the validated carbon trading concepts to other sites in India, particularly for the benefit of small holders under different systems, resource bases and social situations.
Consortium Partners

	Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad
	Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneshwar (Orissa)
	Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur (Rajasthan)
	OUTREACH, Bangalore (Karnataka)
	Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora (Uttarakhand) Co-PI - Dr. D. Mahanta, Scientist (Agronomy)
	Lead Centre: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL OFFICE, New Delhi (India) CPI: Dr. V.P. Singh, ICRAF - Regional Coordinator for South Asia

 

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