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Not AvailableThe agriculture in the A&N Islands is about 100 years old. Up to the end of IV Five Year Plan, the major stress was mounted under area expansion of agriculture to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains. From V Plan onwards, the thrust was diverted from area expansion to intensive agriculture practices and development of plantations on the hilly slopes. Presently, the emphasis is on increasing the area and production through crop diversification from traditional food crops and optimum exploitation of cultivable wastelands. The demand for produce from allied sectors like horticulture, animal husbandry and fisheries far exceeds the supply opening greater avenues for further development. Besides ensuring nutritional security, these products have the potential for exports in value added form. Diversification towards horticulture and livestock therefore has to be very major component to achieve expected growth rate under agriculture sector. The major crop-wise distribution of the area is about 8139 ha under paddy followed by pulses and oilseeds during rabi, about 21760 ha under coconut and 4152 ha under arecanut. In agriculture sector the production of food grains, vegetables and fruits has been far below the local demand. Consequently, the Union Territory Government has been importing rice, wheat, pulses, vegetables and other agricultural commodities from the mainland recurrently. The gap between supply and demand would increase as population of the island increases. This warrants for concerted efforts to develop new agricultural technologies suited to the specific agro-ecological conditions of these islands. The effective transfer of technologies so developed to the farming community is needed to improve sufficiency status in major food items, particularly the perishable commodities and rice at sustainable scale.In sum, A&N Islands are blessed with wide bio-diversity and vast natural resources. Vision 2030 is an attempt to enlist the potential thematic areas and analyse the strength and weakness of this sectors to focus research activities so that the expected outcomes can be delivered within the stipulated time to developmental departments and other implementing agencies.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableThere is a lot of difference in natural resource base as well as socio-economic background of people in different Islands, therefore, the technologies/ varieties/strains developed at Port Blair, cannot be straight way transferred to the farmers and needs evaluation and refinement to suit local condition. To achieve this, an Out Reach Centre (ORC) was established by Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) with the support of NABARD, Port Blair at Diglipur of North and Middle Andaman District which is 290 km. by road and 180 km by sea away from Port Blair, to basically serve Diglipur area, which is agriculturally very important region of UT. Hence ORC an extension arm of CARI for North & Middle Andaman district was sanctioned by NABARD on 27th March, 2009.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableFarmer's participatory evaluation of varieties employs the active participation of farmers in breeding programmes and will usually involve farmers selecting genotypes form genetically variable material. Field experiments were conducted in participatory mode during 2008-09 to 2012-13 in South Andaman district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Randomized Block Design in 5 farmers field(replications) in order to assess the suitability of Green gram and Black gram under residual moisture in rice fallow under island ecosystem. Five varieties of Blackgram viz., T9', PDV1', 'TMV1, 'Naveen' and 'Co 5' and six varieties of Green gram viz.,T44', 'P 105', 'PDM 54', Co 5', 'Narendra Moong' and 'PDM 11' were evaluated. Among the varieties evaluated, 'T9'(0.94 t ha) and 'TMV1'(0.95 t ha) of Blackgram and 'PDM54' (0.86 t ha) and 'T44'(0.85 t ha) of Green gram recorded higher grain yields, net returns, energy efficiency and lower specific energy.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableFor technology dissemination to other islands of the Union Territory, transport is the major bottleneck which hinders the efforts to evaluate the technologies in different socio-economic conditions and disseminates the technologies through different means.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableMilky mushroom(Calocybe indica) is highly suitable for hot and humid tropical climate of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Two experiments were conducted to exploit locally availabel substrates with high biological efficiency and to explore suitable substrate combination for quality spawn production of milky mushroom.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableThe present study aimed to know the gaps for yield performance between potential and actual yield of rice through 137 Front Line Demonstration (FLD) conducted across 3 years in the Andaman Islands. Improved rice varieties with recommended package of practices could give on an average yield of 4.72 t ha as compared to local varieties yielding 3.21 t ha. to 3.69 t ha. under rainfed conditions of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The extension gap ranged between 1.22 to 1.70 t ha in improved varieties as compared to 1.55 to 2.70 t ha. under hybrid varieties. The trend of technology gap ranged from 0.15 to 0.30 t ha. in hybrid varieties compared to 0.18 - 0.35 t ha in case of pure line varieties. The technology index showed the feasibility of realising the performance of evolved technology at the farmer's fields. The value technology index showed wide range of 3.60 to 15.80 for HYVs and 2.50 to 5.00 in hybrid varieties. The benefit cost ratio was slightly high in hybrids than pure line varieties. The yield of rice hybrids complimented by improved seed and appropriate crop management technologies. Availability of improved seed of high yielding varieties and required inputs along with timely extension intervention can greatly narrow the gap between potential yield and actual yield to reap high rice productivity in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableA study on the socio-psychological characteristics of 240 farm women both who had undergone three days training and untrained on the subjects namely Mushroom cultivation, Kitchen gardening, Layer farming and Fresh water pisciculture was carried out in South Andaman block, Port Blair of Andaman district. A total of 14 characteristics were selected based on the judges opinion and past research studies. It was found that among the various categories of characteristics of the farm women most of the farm women belonged to middle age group, had primary level of education, opting equally to have either agriculture as the main or subsidiary occupation. Possessed medium to low level of farm experience, with medium level of annual income followed by medium to low level of contact with extension agency, social participation, mass media exposure, economic motivation, scientific orientation, innovativeness, perceived effectiveness towards the training and operated small size holding. This study was undertaken to assess the socio-psychological characteristics of the farm women of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) which will help in giving appropriate policy implication based on the derived conclusions to uplift the socio-economic status of the farm women.Not Availabl

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