CSSRI Annual Report 2010-11 - Central Soil Salinity Research ...

CSSRI Annual Report 2010-11
Workshop, seminar, training, foundation day and kisan mela organised
Dr. D.K. Sharma, Director CSSRI inaugurated the Stakeholder’s Capacity building training programme
Operational Pilot Project (HOPP), Agricultural
Department, Karnal along with the project
partners and CSSRI scientists participated.
In the inaugural address, Dr. D.K. Sharma,
Director, CSSRI, appealed to the stakeholders
(farmers) for growing more foods with less
water by adopting scientific methods in view
of shrinking share of canal water in coming
years, ongoing secondary salinization and
waterlogging in the canal command. He stressed
on the use of the technologies developed by
the institute for reclamation of salt-affected
soils and poor quality waters, and growing salt
tolerant varieties of mustard and wheat in the
salt affected lands. Dr. D.S. Bundela, Principal
Scientist & Consortium Principal Investigator
(CPI) presented the project achievements and
field demonstrations undertaken at farmers’
fields with emphasis on stakeholder problems
in the Butana distributary command.
Senior Officers’ Capacity Building Training
Programme under NAIP DSS Project
A Five Days Senior Officers’ (Stakeholders)
Capacity Building Training Programme on
Applications of Modern Tools for Enhancing
Productivity in Irrigated Saline Environment
under NAIP-DSS Project was held during 1-5
March 2011. Twenty senior officers- nine from
Command Area Development Agency, six from
Agriculture Departments, and five from KVKs
in the Western Yamuna Canal (WYC) command,
Haryana, participated in the training. Among the
20 participants, Deputy Director (Soil Testing),
Karnal, Sh. M.L. Khurana; Deputy Director
(Agriculture), Karnal, Sh. Devinder Malik, and
Deputy Director (Agriculture), Panipat, Sh. R.P.
Sihag; District Soil Conservation Officer, Karnal
Sh. O.P. Godara and District Soil Conservation
Senior Officers attended a capacity building training
programme
Officer, Panipat, Sh. Anil Kumar, 5 Senior District
Extension Officers and 5 SDO from CADA
were the senior officers in the training. Dr. D.S.
Bundela, Consortium Principal Investigator
(CPI) and Course Director welcomed the
participants and presented the objectives of the
training programme. He highlighted the project
achievements including field demonstrations
at farmers’ fields with emphasis on stakeholder
problems in the mid and tail reaches of the
WYC command. He drew attention to a unique
feature/strength of the project-stakeholder. In his
concluding remarks, Dr. D.K. Sharma, Director,
CSSRI emphasized the role of modern tools for
generating accurate and reliable databases on
irrigation water, crops and soils for mapping and
monitoring of productivity in canal commands for
planning effective water management strategies
for growing more food with scientific methods
in view of lesser availability of canal water in
coming years, use of saline groundwater, ongoing
secondary soil salinization and waterlogging in
the canal command.
Organisation of rabi Kisan Mela
A rabi kisan mela was organized on 1 st
March, 2011. The mela was inaugurated by
Dr. N.K.Tyagi, Member, Agricultural
Scientist Recruitment Board, New Delhi and
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