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Dipak Nath ¹, Pijush Kanti Biswas ², Amit Nath ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, Khowai (TRIPURA), IN
2 Department of Agricultural Extension, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, khowai (TRIPURA), IN

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Dairying, Recommended, Cattle, Livestock, Balanced Diet

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Dipak Nath ¹, Ingita Gohain ²

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, khowai Tripura, IN
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Birchandram Tripura, IN

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Perception, Tuber Crop, Production Technology, Tripura

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Dipak Nath ¹, Amit kumar Nath ²

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Tripura, IN
2 Animal Resources Development Department, Govt. of Tripura, AI Centre, Dharmanagar, Tripura, IN

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The study was conducted in Khowai district of Tripura, a landlocked state of NE India to ascertain farmers' perception of backyard rabbitry and also delineates the constraints as perceived by them in large scale adoption of rabbit rearing. The study reveals that the farmers' perception on requirement of labour is 55 per cent with less practice of cross breeding (90 %), less care of pregnant animal (82.4 %), less care of young animal (72 %) and market system is not optimum (81 %). Non - availability of pure breed strain, high cost of concentrate feed and lack of proper market are the main constraints faced by the farmers for large scale adoption of rabbit farming in Khowai district of the state.

Keywords

Perception, Backyard, Rabbitry

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Lakshman Chandra Patel ¹, Dipak Nath ¹, Amit K. R. Nath ¹

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1 Divyodaya Krishi Vigyan Kendra, West Tripura, KHOWAI (TRIPURA), IN

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Dipankar Dey ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura, Chebri, Khowai (Tripura), IN

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Lime application and integrated nutrient management is often recommended to increase the crop productivity on acidic soils. To ascertain the individual and synergistic effects of lime, NPK and farm yard manure (FYM) application on ground nut productivity, a field experiment was undertaken on acid soils of west Tripura. Application of recommended dose of NPK (20:60:42 kg/ha of NPK) along with lime (10 % of actual LR was followed) resulted in 153 per cent yield increase over control whereas, FYM@ 5 ton/ha along with combined application of lime with recommended NPK boosted the yield improvement upto 210 per cent over control (Farmers' practice). Results of this study suggest that liming along with integrated nutrient management practices, if adopted properly, can lead to more than two-fold increase in ground nut productivity on acidic soils of West Tripura and other districts of the states of Tripura with similar soils. Post harvest soil analysis also showed improved status of organic C, N and P in treated plots, but available K status declined emphasising the need for close monitoring and appropriate K application in such soils.

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Liming, Integrated Nutrient Management, Groundnut.

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Dipankar Dey ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

Affiliations
1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura, Chebri, Khowai (Tripura), IN

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An experiment was conducted at West Tripura district to evaluate the soil properties and nutrient availability as influenced by cultivation of green manuring crop in acidic soil condition of West Tripura district. Soil samples were collected randomly in the fields for analysis of nutrients and organic carbon and other physical properties. The study revealed that the change in soil physical properties and nutrient availability was significantly increased under the green manuring practice. The green manuring crop dhaincha and mung bean was grown on the plots and it was incorporated into the soil by ploughing before attaining the flowering stage. Further the land was left for 24 days for decomposition of green manure. Highest grain yield of paddy (5.5 t/ha) was observed in dhaincha- aman paddy- potato cropping system whereas the lowest grain yield of paddy (3.5 t/ha) was obtained in fallow- aman paddy-potato cropping system. The grain yield obtained from mung bean- aman paddy- potato cropping system was 4.8 t/ha.

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Green Mauring Crop, Paddy, Cropping System.

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Dipankar Dey ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura, Chebri, Khowai (Tripura), IN

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Maintenance or enhancement of soil quality is important for sustainable agricultural production. A field experiment was conducted in farmers fields of North Kamalnagar village of Teliamura sub-division of Khowai district. Surface soil samples were collected from the fields of farmers treated with vermicompost @ 2.5 tonnes per ha along with recommended dose of NPK taking cabbage as test crop. Comparison was made with control plot where no treatment was made. Mean values of organic carbon (OC) and available NPK were found higher in the treated fields which were low in control. In vermicompost treated soils the yield and weight per head of cabbage was found higher as compared to control plot.

Keywords

Vermicompost, Soil Health.

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Ardhendu Chakraborty ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, DIVYODAYA (WEST TRIPURA), IN

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A supervised field experiment was conducted in the chilli during Rabi, 2014-15 to study the impact of certain biopesticides in leaf curl disease and its vectors viz., thrips and mites. The treatments were application of Nanma @ 1 per cent (T₁), application of neem oil 0.15EC @ 0.3 per cent (T₂), application of Sonata @ 0.1 per cent (T₃), alternate spray of T₁, T₂ and T₃ (T₄) and untreated check (T₅). It was found that thrips and mites population was higher in untreated check (0.80 and 1.39, respectively) while a low population was recorded in the treatment with the alternate spray of T₁, T₂ and T₃ (0.10 and 0.16, respectively). Similarly lowest leaf curl index was recorded in alternate spray of T₁, T₂ and T₃ (T₄) (0.20) followed by application of neem oil 0.15EC @ 0.3 per cent (T₂) (0.21). It can be concluded that alternate spray of nanma @ 1 per cent, neem oil 0.15 EC @ 0.3 per cent, sonata @ 0.1 per cent can reduce leaf curl disease incidence in chilli.

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Chilli, Biopesticide, Leaf Curl Disease, Vectors Population, Thrips, Mites.

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Subhra Shil ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, DIVYODAYA (WEST TRIPURA), IN

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The experiment was conducted in a village of Gourangatilla, Khowai district of Tripura with full technical support and investigation of Krishi Vigyan Kendra scientists during 2013-14. The main objective of the experiment was to evaluate the performance of this high yielding variety of colocasia in comparison with local variety. It has been reported from the investigation that the variety Muktakeshi is better than the local variety in terms of yield, pest and disease per centage, eating quality with good size and shape. In case of var. Muktakeshi a highest yield of 140 q/ha and an average yield of 129 q/ha has been recorded while in case of local check average yield 100 q/ha was observed.

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Colocasia, Varietal Evaluation, Tripura.

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Phani Bhusan Jamatia ¹, B. S. Hansra ², D. Basu ³, Dipak Nath ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Agriculture, Agartala (Tripura), IN
2 Amity International Centre for Postharvest Technology and Cold Chain Management, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), IN
3 Department of Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Noida (U.P.), IN
4 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura (Tripura), IN

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The study was carried out in all the erstwhile 4 (four) districts namely South Tripura, West Tripura, Dhalai and North Tripura with 240 potato farmers to ascertain adoption level of recommended practices TPS technology by the potato farmers, find out the relationship between personal characteristics of TPS farmers and adoption of TPS cultivation practice and reasons for nonadoption of TPS technology by the potato farmers. Out of 240 potato farmers 186 potato farmers have adopted the TPS technology fully (75 nos.) or partially (111 nos.). As per overall adoption, 40.32 percent of TPS farmers had high adoption behavior on TPS cultivation practices followed by medium adoption behaviour (33.33 %). Category wise, 48.00 per cent of the total marginal farmers (131 nos.) and 36.67 per cent of the total small farmers (75 nos.), 16.00 per cent of the total medium farmers (31 nos.); and 1.33 per cent of the total big farmers (3 nos.) have adopted TPS technology fully. The adoption of TPS cultivation technology was found to be positively and significantly correlated with their education, social participation, innovativeness, scientific orientation, economic motivation, knowledge at 1 per cent level of significance and mass media participation and contact with extension agency at 5 per cent level of significance. Different TPS cultivation practice wise maximum adoption were found in time, spacing and depth of seed sowing in nursery bed. Reasons for non-adoption of TPs technology by different categories of potato farmers showed that complexity in nature of technology, scarcity in skilled labour, lack of technical skill, risky technology and non-economical, no knowledge and lack of awareness were the major reasons for non-adoption of TPS technology in the study area.

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Potato Farmers, Extent of Adoption, Credit Orientation, Economic Motivation, Innovativeness, Scientific Orientation, TPS Cultivation Practices.

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Subhra Shil ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

Affiliations
1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Chebri, Khowai (Tripura), IN

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Flowers are the most beautiful creation of the earth. Flowers symbolize beauty, purity, peace, love affection and honesty. Flowers have been associated with Indian art and culture from the time immemorial starting with the offering of flowers during worship by the ancientRishis (sages). Floriculture has emerged as a viable diversification option in the agri-business. It is a rapidly expanding dynamic industry recording a growth rate of more than 15 per cent per annum in the last two decades. Rapid urbanization, increased income levels and changes in social values resulted in increase of domestic market both for modern (cut flowers) as well as traditional (loose flowers) flowers significantly. At present, the area under flower crops in India is 306000 ha with a production of 1840000 MT of loose flowers and 548000 MT of cut flowers (NHB Indian Horticulture Database 2014-2015).

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Subhra Shil ¹, Dipak Nath ¹

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, West Tripura (Tripura), IN

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Intercropping is being adopted as a method of crop production by the farmers of Tripura. Farmers often intercrop legumes with non-legumes. A study was conducted in the farmer's field of Khowai district of Tripura during 2014. The objective of the study was to assess the productivity of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea) and pea (Pisum sativum) in sole and intercropping system to find the best combinations which yield highest production. Cauliflower and pea were planted under four different row arrangements (T₁-Cauliflower as sole crop, T₂-Pea as sole crop, T₃-Cauliflower: pea (1:1), T₄-Cauliflower: pea (1:2) in the open field. Land equivalent ratio (LER) was calculated to identify the best system of intercropping and it was recorded that incase of T₄ i.e., Cauliflower: Pea (1:2) LER was greater than one i.e., 1.04, indicating that this cropping system is profitable in terms of land utilization. Moreover, results of analyses using benefit-cost ratio showed that the most favourable mix of vegetables which could be recommended for adoption to farmers was the intercrop of a row of cauliflower with two rows of Pea (T₄-1:2).

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Intercropping, Sole Cropping, Land Equivalent Ratio (LER), Pea, Cauliflower.

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Dipak Nath ¹, Subhra Shil ¹

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1 Divyodaya Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai (West Tripura), IN

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The study was conducted among the women beneficiaries of Divyodaya Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tripura West district of Tripura. A total of 200 respondents belonging to SC and ST population were selected randomly from the 14 purposively selected villages. The study revealed that 49.00 per cent of the respondents had high level of knowledge followed by 37.50 per cent in medium and 13.50 per cent respondents in low level of knowledge category on production technologies of horticultural crops. The socio-personal characteristics like age (r=0.761), educational level (r=0.890), mass media exposure (0.767), family's operational land holding (r=0.649) and social participation (r=0.759) had positive and highly significant relation whereas marital status (r=0.541) and family type (r=0.534) had positive and moderately significant relation with the knowledge level of women beneficiaries on production technologies of horticultural crops.

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Women Beneficiary, Knowledge Level, Production Technology, Horticultural Crop.

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Dipankar Dey ¹, Dipak Nath ¹, Lord Litan Debbarma ¹

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai, Chebri (Tripura), IN

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Introduction: Shri Charan Debarma a Progressive tribal farmer of North Pulinpur ADC Village has adopted the Pond Based Farming System under the Project National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture. North Pulinpur is one of the draught prone tribal inhabited ADC village of the district Khowai under the state Tripura. There were no perennial streams, rivers, ponds and other irrigation facilities in the village. Prevailing temperature ranges from 16°C to 37°C. Annual rainfall ranges from 2050 to 2550 mm, but almost whole amount goes out to neighbouring lower elevated village. Before initiation of NICRA Shri Charan Debbarma was growing only Kharif rice. In his remaining land he was growing Cannavis sativa, the of flowers (called marijuana) and leaves and preparations derived from resinous extract (e.g., hashish) are consumed by smoking, vaporising and oral ingestion. Because of this type of use it is banned to grow the crop in India.

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Dipankar Dey ¹, Dipak Nath ¹, Lord Litan Debbarma ¹, Subhra Shil ¹, Suresh Chandra Biswas ¹, Ardhendu Chakraborty ¹, Rajib Das ¹, Nurul Islam ¹, Subrata Choudhury ¹, Prasanto Reang ¹

Affiliations
1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khowai (Tripura), IN

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North Pulinpur with GPS location 23°52.836¹ N, 91°35.275¹ E and elevation 47m is one of the draught prone tribal inhabited ADC village of the district Khowai under the state Tripura. The total geographical area of the village is 950 hectare with cultivable area of about 250 hectare only among 806 farm families. So, most of the families are holding either small or marginal farms. There was no perennial streams, rivers, ponds and other irrigation facilities in the village. Prevailing temperature ranges from 16°C to 37°C. Annual rainfall ranges from 2050 to 2550 mm, but almost whole amount goes out to neighboring lower elevated village. Agriculture is the mainstay of the people, about 85 per cent of them engage in agriculture and its allied activities. Farmers earned their livelihood from rainfed rice based monocropped cultivation. Moisture stress during Kharifdry spell and winter season which lead to rice based mono-cropping system. Under the National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture(NICRA) Project KVK,Khowai has constructed and rejuvenated 22 water bodies from 2011-12 to 2018-19 at North Pulinpur ADC village; all of which provided life saving irrigation for paddy during Kharifdry spell as well as during Rabiseason through nano pumps installed nearby farm ponds. Before implementation of NICRA project to North Pulinpur ADC village, most of the areas remain dry during Rabi season. After the intervention, approximately 26187 ft 3 rainwater had been harvested covering an area of about 135.0 ha. for winter vegetables and Rabi maize cultivation and during dry period. In addition to this, a total area of about 1 ha waste land had been converted to paddy land using water from community bund. Ponds were also used for composite fish culture with average yield of 30 q/ farmer/year/ha during 2018-19.

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NICRA, KVK Khowai, Paddy.

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