Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Success Story-1 - TS-36, a toria variety












Success Story-1

TS-36, a toria variety likely to boost farmers’ income in Margherita Block of Tinsukia district
 


Jagun is a small township of Tinsukia District bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the East and Nagaland in the South-East. People living in this part of the district belong to various cast, creed and community. However, all of them are   predominantly farmers cultivating a number of field and horticultural crops. Being situated at the foot hill of Nagaland and Arunachal, land of Jagun area is very much fertile. River Dihing and a number of small streams encourage farmers to adopt agriculture as a profitable venture.
Sri Gopal Chetri is a progressive farmer of 3no. Rampur village under Jagun Gaon Panchayat. He has a small piece of land measuring about 15 bighas where rice, maize, toria, summer and winter vegetables are grown. Toria is an important oil seed crop that farmers grow in Jagun.  Sri Chetri has a sizeble area under toria. However, the yield that he harvests with local as well as improved variety M-27 is not very encouraging. So, he was looking for a suitable toria variety to replace old varieties.
 During the BFAC meeting of Margherita Block, Sri Chetri was identified as probable beneficiary for demonstrating a new high yielding toria variety. Accordingly, BTT members visited the site and selected him as beneficiary. The team also met other farmers of the village and enlightened them about ATMA and the objective of the demonstration to be conducted in the village. For that a daylong training was also organized in the village. All the farmers participated in the training programme showed keen interest on ATMA and its objectives.
TS-36 is a new high yielding toria variety developed by RARS, Shillongoni, Nagaon. The variety showed good performance in some other parts the district. Hence, it was decided to introduce TS-36 in Rampur village. By middle of October, seeds were collected from BNCA, AAU, and along with other inputs provided to the farmer. Seeds were sown in the first week of November. Soil moisture retained after tillage operation helps in uniform seed germination. As the season progress, BTM and SMS monitored the field activities frequently. Officers from the district HQ along with scientist from KVK, Tinsukia also visited the site and provide necessary guidance. For timely advice, contact number of KVK scientist was also provided to the farmer.
After three months of sowing, the crop was ready to harvest. During this period, the crop received two light showers. BTT visited the site and decided to organize a Field Day at 3no.Rampur villager. Accordingly, a Field Day was organized in the site on 9th February, 2013 where about 60 farmers from four neighboring villages assembled. A joint field visit was made in the demonstration site where officers from district HQ and KVK also took part. All the farmers were happy with the crop stand, per plant pod number as well as pod size of TS-36. Ceremonial harvesting was done in three plots, each measuring 5mx5m. It was observed that on an average 2.8 kg seed was recorded in 25 sqm plot which is equivalent to 150 kg per bigha or 11.2 q per hectre.  This yield was about 1.5 times more than the neighboring plot of M-27. Sri Gopal Chetry and fellow farmers expressed their satisfaction over the yield performance of TS-36.
After the joint field visit, Sri Chetry spoke about the production technology that he had adopted. He was highly grateful to the team member of ATMA for all the help and guidance. The village head, who preside over the meeting, opined that for overall development of Rampur and other neighboring villages farmers had to adopt new technologies developed in the field of agriculture and allied sectors. He asked farmers to collect seed of TS-36 for the next crop season. Altogether 42 farmers registered their name as probable growers of TS-36 in the coming rabi season. Later, field staff reported that one liter oil could be extracted from 2.7 kg TS-36 seed while to get the same quantity of oil 3.2 kg M-27 seed was required.  
It is now expected that in the coming season more farmers will grow toria variety TS-36 in Jagun panchayat and reap the benefit of it.


 

 


 

  



 

Friday, 3 April 2015

Composition of Governing Board etc



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Composition of Governing Board (GB), CSS- ATMA, Tinsukia

1.
Deputy Commissioner
Chairman
2
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ZP, Tinsukia
Vice Chairman
3
Project Director,DRDA, Tinsukia
Member
4
Joint Director, Agriculture
Member
5
General Manager, DIC, Tinsukia
Member
6
Chief Scientist,CRS, Tinsukia
Member
7
Lead Bank Officer, Tinsukia
Member
8
District AH& Vety Officer, Tinsukia
Member
9
District Fishery Dev. Officer, Tinsukia
Member
10
Programme Coordinator, KVK, Tinsukia
Member
11
SDAO, Horticulture, Tinsukia
Member
12
Secy. Agriculture Marketing Board, Tinsukia
Member
13
Asstt. Branch Manager, Assam Seed Corporation
Member
14
Sri Jagadish Das, Guijan ( Livestock producer)
Member
15
Sri. Jadu Chutia, Borgaon, ( Horticulture farmer)
Member
16
Smti. Heera Devi, Hijuguri, ( Representative of women FIG)
Member
17
Sri. Bhadra Sonowal, Nabormurah, Dholla(ST representive)
Member
18
Sri.Dimbeswar Das Loonpuria, Koiborta Gaon, (SC representive)
Member
19
Sri. Turakanta Hatiboruah, Secy.District PPS( NGO), Tinsukia
Member
20
Sri.Ananta Chetri Na- Barmurah, ( Farmers representive)
Member
21
Sri. Santosh Kr. Verma, M/S Krishi Bhandar,Tinsukia (Representative Input dealers)
Member
22
Project Director, ATMA, Tinsukia
Member-Secretary


Composition of ATMA Management Committee (AMC), Tinsukia

1
Project Director, ATMA, Tinsukia
Chairman
2
Project Officer, DRDA, Tinsukia
Member
3
Chief  Scientist, CRS, Tinsukia
Member
4
District AH & Vety. Officer, Tinsukia
Member
5
District Dev. Manager, NABARD, Tinsukia
Member
6
Lead District Manager, Tinsukia
Member
7
District Fishery Dev. Officer, Tinsukia
Member
8
Programme Coordinator, KVK, Tinsukia
Member
9
District Horticulture Nodal Officer, Tinsukia
Member
10
Superintendent of Sericulture, Tinsukia
Member
11
Sri Prafulla Moran, PPS, Hebeda
Member
12
Sri Deben Tamuly, Input Dealer, Tinsukia
Member
13
Sri Ganesh Moran, Kailashpur, Kakapother
Member
14
Smti Mondira Baruah, Gelapukhuri
Member
15
Deputy Project Director, ATMA, Tinsukia
Member-Secy


Composition of District Farmers Advisory Committee (DFAC), CSS-ATMA, Tinsukia

Sl.No
Name
Block
Adress
1
Sri.Turakanta Hatibaruh
Itakhuli
No 2 Hebeda
2
Sri Basudev kurmi
Itakhuli
Tengapani
3
Sri Ratneshwar Hatibarua
Kakopathar
2 No. Baraligaon
4
Sri.Jotiprasad Buragohain
Kakopathar
Bijoypur
5
Sri Debnath Hasda
Guijan
Gutibari
6
Sri Rantu Chetia
Guijan
Dhoria
7
Sri Himla Sarmah
Hapjan
Choto Hapjan
8
Sri Dipak Duarah
Hapjan
Purani Matapung
9
Sri Deepantar Buragohain
Chapakhowa
Borjira
10
Sri Amarendra Chiring
Chapakhowa
Asomiya Borgorah
11
Sri Hem Saikia
Margherita
No.2 Bhitor Powai
12
Sri Bitupan Pangyouk
Margherita
Powaimukh
13
Sri Kanhailal Verma
Saikhowa
Gulzar Basti
14
Sri Harukan Sonowal
Saikhowa
Aroimuriah
15
Sri Gonesh Moran
Award Winning Farmer
Wathoi