Organic Production of Tomato through Biopesticides, Biofertilizers and Macrobials of TRA, NBRRDC, Nagrakata, CAU-CPGSAS Meghalaya and NBAIR Bangalore, Respectively - A Success Story
Pranab Dutta*
CoA, Kyrdemkulai, CAU (Imphal), Ri Bhoi, Meghalaya (793 104), India
A.K. Pandey
Tea Research Association, North Bengal Regional Research Centre (TRA-NBRRDC), Nagrakata, West Bengal (735 225), India
R. Varshney
ICAR-NBAIR, Bangalore, Karnataka (560 024), India
T. Rahman
CAU-CPGSAS, CAU (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya (793 103), India
J. Sutnga
CAU-CPGSAS, CAU (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya (793 103), India
M. Mahanta
CAU-CPGSAS, CAU (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya (793 103), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Farm income, Organic cultivation, Organic inputs, Predators
Abstract
Under the DBT funded project in the identified village of West Sikkim a team of scientist of CAU-CPGSAS, TRA-NBRRDC and ICAR-NBAIR in collaboration with KVK-West Sikkim identified Mrs. Manika Rai for promotion of proven technologies of organic input for organic cultivation vegetables. Mrs. Rai before our intervention she practiced the cultivation of vegetables without any practices. Under DBT funded project, Mrs. Rai was trained at village level and at KVK level on different aspects of organic practices, seed selection, line sowing, seed treatment, use of organic inputs like enriched compost, sticky traps, use on parasitoid and predators, timely agronomic practices etc. After two years of continuous support and practice Mrs. Rai could able to produce healthy crop with 80-85% reduction of pest and diseases. She could able to get a profit of 40-44% with CBR of 1:5 with positive soil biological index. Seeing the success of Mrs. Rai many fellow farmer started practicing the scientific organic practices.
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