Crop/ enterprise

Prioritized problem

Title of OFT

Treatments

Source of Technology

No. of trials

Parameters to be studied

Team members

Paddy

Low yield and high labour cost

Alternative herbicides for weed control in paddy

T1: Farmers Practice

T2

I : Butachlor

II: Pyrazosulfuron ethyl +pretilachlor

III: Bensulfuron methyl + pretilachlor

IV: Butachlor fb Bispyribac Sodium

SKUAST-Kashmir

03

Team KVK

Maize

Low yield and late maturity of traditional varieties.

Evaluation of different maize varieties under integrated crop management (ICM)

T1: Check (Badi Makai)

T2:

I: ICM with Check

II: ICM with SMC-7

III: ICM with SMC-4

SKUAST-K

03

Team KVK

Grapes (Sahebi)

Short berry

Low marketable yield

Assessment of foliar nutrient sprays for management of hen & chicken disorder of grapes

T1: Farmers practice

T2: Three sprays of Boric acid @1.5g/ltr at bud swell stage, after petal fall and 21 days after second spray

T3: Three sprays of GA3 @40ppm at a) Pre bloom

b) after petal fall and

c) 21 days after second spray

SKUAST-Kashmir

03

Marketable yield (MT/k)

Dr. Shafat Ahmad Banday, Aroosa Khalil

& Team KVK

APPLE

Root rot

Management of  Root rot disease of apple

T0: Removal of Soil from the root surface

T1: T0 + Soil drenching  under tree canopy with Carbendazim + Mancozeb @ 0.5%. OR

With Captan+Hexaconazole @ 0.1%

T2:  Removal of Soil from the root surface + Soil drenching with bio-agent (soil application with FYM impregnated with Bio-agent)

Farmers Practice

03

Recovery percentage

Dr. F.A. Ahanger and Asso. member (Div. of plant pathology)

Cherry 

Gummosis leading to poor plant health and lesser yield

Integrated management of bacterial gummosis in peach for improved yield

T0: Farmer’ practice (No treatment)

T1:  Spray copper oxychloride (0.3%) after leaf fall + apply mashobra paste after cleaning the weeping wounds at the time of dormancy break and repeat the process on new lesions in following month+ spray Streptocycline (0.02%) before the onset of rainy season follwed by spray with  Carbendazim + Mancozeb @ 0.05%.

Farmers Practice

Refinement

(HPKV Palampur & GBPAUT)

03

% Recovery/

%wound healing

 and yield (Q/ha.)

Dr. F.A. Ahanger

Poultry

Low production of layers during short day period

Effect of additional light hours on the production performance of layer chickens

T0: Natural light hours

T1: 2-3 additional light hours morning and evening for 3 months

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04 (Nuner, Repora, Kurhama, Shuhama)

•Egg production

•Egg size

Dr. Pervaiz Dar

and team KVK