Facilities @ARS

Total area = 114 ha

Cultivated area = 70.64 ha

Agroforestry = 22.77 ha

Green belt = 1 ha

Area under building and roads = 3.59 ha

Uncultivated area = 16 ha

• Well maintained and highly equipped office building

• Wi-Fi administrative and academic building

• Seminar hall with video conferencing facility

• Double storey guest house

• Residential quarter for Zonal Director Research = 1

• Residential quarters for Associate Professors = 6

• Residential quarters for Assistant Professors = 9

• Residential quarters for non-teaching staff = 6

• Tube well = 3

• Grading unit = 1

• Godowns = 2

• Implement shed cum threshing unit = 1

• Implement shed cum godown = 1

• Implement shed = 1

• Other seed storage structures =3

• Nearly all farm machines and implements including 2 tractors, bus, jeep, trollies, water tanks, threshers, seed-cum-fertilizer drills, harrows, ploughs, rotavator, land leveler etc.

• Vermicompost units = 2

• Nursery units =2

Gramin Krishi Mousam Sewa (GKMS)

• To provide location specific weather forecast and agro-meteorological advisory as per different climatic conditions and cropping patterns.

• To implement an efficient outreach system so that the farmers receive weather based agro-advisories specific to their areas and crops on real time basis.

• To set up an operational arrangement for agro-meteorological advisory involving extension and information dissemination agencies.

Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS) cell:

This lab includes:

• Air Conditioner = 1

• Computer = 9

• Printer = 11

• UPS = 2

• Scanner = 2

• Laptop = 1

• Camera = 1

• Projector = 1

Soil Water Plant analysis laboratory

This lab includes:

• Rapid Automatic Kjeldahl Nitrogen Protein analysis System

• Systronics PC Based Double Beam UV VIS Spectrophotometer

• Flame Photometer

• pH Meter

• Electrical Conductivity meter and

• Other basic instruments

Following soil and water parameters have been analyzing very satisfactory and very accurately:

• Electrical Conductivity (EC)

• pH

• Organic Carbon

• Available and total Nitrogen

• Available and total Phosphorus

• Available and total Potash

• Available and total Sulphur

• Available and total Boron

• Calcium and Magnesium

• Carbonate, Bicarbonate and Residual Sodium Bicarbonate hazards of water samples etc.

Agronomy laboratory:

This lab includes:

• Digital pH meter

• Digital direct reading conductivity

• Hot air oven

Agricultural Entomology laboratory:

This lab includes:

• Insect light traps

• Sterilizing electric oven

• Seed germinator

• Dessicator cabinet

• BOD incubator

• Oil bath

• Ultra low temperature cabinet

• Stereoscopic binocular

Plant Physiology laboratory:

This lab includes:

• Hot air oven

• Infrared gas analyzer

• Electric oven

• Incubator

• Electrophoresis apparatus

• Photoelectric colorimeter

• pH meter

• Growth cabinet

• Leaf area meter

• Portable photosynthesis unit

Plant Pathology laboratory:

This lab includes:

• Microscopes with photographic arrangement

• Autoclave

• Hot air oven

• BOD Incubator

• Oil bath unit

• Seed germinator incubator

• BOD Cooling Incubator