ICAR
Indian Council of Agriculture (ICAR) is an autonomous organization under Government of India. It was established in July 16, 1929 as Indian Council of Agriculture Research. The council is the apex body for coordinating, guiding and managing research and education in agriculture including horticulture, fisheries and animal sciences in the entire country with over 19 ICAR institute and 52 agricultural universities speared across the country. This is one of the largest national agricultural system in the world.
The ICAR has played a pioneering role in a ushering Green Revolution and subsequent development in agriculture in India through its research and technology development that has enabled the country to increase the production of food grains by four times, horticultural crops by 6 times, fish by 9 times, milk 6 times and eggs 27 times since 1950-51, thus making a viable impact on national food and nutrias security. Thse council is continuously reviewing its research activities and developing long-term research strategies to reduce vulnerability of rural poor and accelerate inclusive agricultural growth. Issues priorities by end to end solution are growing economic equalities fragmented and further shrinking agriculture holdings, drawing water resources, hungry soil, changing climate resulting fluctuations in monsoon and unpredictable whether vagaries (vision 2020).
NAIP
The National Agriculture Innovation Project (NAIP) is to facilitate accelerated and sustainable transformation of Indian agriculture in support of poverty alleviation and income generation by collaborative development and application of agricultural innovation by the public research organizations in partnership with the farmer’s groups, the private sector, the civil society organizations and other stakeholders.
The specific objectives includes capacity building for management of change in Indian NARS (Component 1), research on production to consumption system (Component 2), research on sustainable rural livelihood security (Component 3), basic and strategic research in frontier area of agricultural science (Component 4).
RVSKVV
The Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior was established on 19 August 2008. The territorial jurisdiction the university is speared over 25 districts of the state comprising 6 colleges (Agriculture: Gwalior, Sehore, Indore and Khandwa; Horticulture: Mandsaur and Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry: Mhow); five Zonal Agricultural Research Station (Morena, Khargone, Jhabua, Indore and Sehore); four Regional Research Station (Gwalior, Indore, Mandsaur and Khandwa); three Special Research Station (Entkhedi, Joara and Badwaha) and 19 Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s. Presently, 22 All India Coordinated Research Projects on crop improvement, natural resource management and horticulture are running at different centre of Vishwa Vidyalaya. The soil under jurisdiction of university varies from alluvial to medium-heavy black soils. The university is playing a pivotal role in the growth and development of agricultural and livestock production through need based research and its dissemination in the state.
