କୃଷି ବିଜ୍ଞାନ କେନ୍ଦ୍ର, ପୁରୀ कृषि विज्ञान केंद्र, पूरी KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, PURI

ABOUT KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA PURI  

1. Name of the KVK: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Puri 

2. Full postal and telecommunication address:     Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Puri 

At/PO-Sakhigopal, 

Dist- Puri, Pin – 752014, Odisha

Land line - 06752-273960

Email – kvk.puri@ouat.ac.in, kvkpuri.ouat@gmail.com         

3. Date of establishment of KVK: 6th  July 2006 

4. The socio-economic and technological profile of agriculture in area of responsibility of the KVK

Puri district is a coastal district on the eastern part of Odisha, India. This district needs no introduction, being the abode of Lord Vishnu, most popularly known as Lord Jagannath Dham. This district derives its name from the heritage city of Puri, one of the four major pilgrimage centres of India. It covers an area of 3479 sq. km having 155 km as its coast line along with the bay of  Bengal.

The District may be divided into two dissimilar natural divisions - the Littoral tract and the Level alluvial tract. It is located at 19’ 28 N Latitude 26’ 35 N, 84’ 29 E. Longitude 86’ 25 E. The district is surrounded by Jagatsinghpur in north, west by Khordha, east by bay of Bengal and south by Ganjam. There is good network connectivity with length of 8979 kilometres road and railway network of 42 kilometres.

5. Demographic status of Puri District

The district consists of eleven blocks namely Satyabadi, Pipili, Kanasa, Krushnaprasad, Delanga, Brahmagiri, Nimapada, Purisadar, Gop, Kakatpur and Astaranga with 268 Gram Panchayats and 1722 villages. The population of the District is 1697983 (as per 2011 Census) and the density of population is 488 people per sq. km. Around 84 per cent of the people reside in the rural areas where as urban population is around 15 per cent of the total population. More than 85 per cent people are literate.

As per 2011 census, 6,21,676 people of the district are classified under main and marginal workers. The percentage of main workers to the total population of the district is 26.52 and the percentage of cultivators to the main workers is 38.3. The agricultural labourers constitute 36.38 per cent of the total main workers.  

6. Land Holding Pattern of Puri District

According to 2011 census, there are 148935 operational holdings with 185280 Ha under their possession. Marginal and small operational holdings constitute 65.42 and 27.18 per cent of the total land holdings in the district. The large farmers constitute 1.39 per cent of the total and possess 10.52 per cent of the total cultivable land. 

Class-wise number and area of land holdings in Puri district

(1-2ha- small farmers, 2-4 ha- semi-med farmers, 4-10 ha-medium farmers, more than 10 ha large farmers)

(Source: District Agril. Office, Puri)

7. Agro-Climatic Characteristics of Puri District

Puri falls under East and South Eastern Coastal Plain Zone of Odisha.  Broad soil groups of the district are saline, lateritic, alluvial, red and mixed red and black. Based on variation in topography, soil type, availability of irrigation and cropping patterns, the agro-climatic zone is further subdivided in to 6 numbers of agro-ecological situations.

The climate of the district is mostly hot and humid. Mean annual rainfall is 1577mm and mean summer maximum temperature is 39.0 0 Celsius. The mean humidity is recorded as 80 per cent. Out of total geographical area of 348102 Ha, the cultivated area is around 53 percent. The area under forest is 3.93 per cent of the geographical area which includes mostly reserve forests.

8. Basic Agricultural Information

 Agriculture has been the major source of livelihood for the population of the district and rice cultivation has been the principal farming activity. Alternative land use and livelihood options such as horticulture, aquaculture and livestock were minor components limited to meeting the subsistence needs of the population. Rice is the major crop occupying 51% of the cropped area. The next important cereals are maize and ragi occupying 2.6 and 2.1 of the cropped area, respectively. Pulses are grown on 23% and oil seeds on 9.5% of the cropped area. The major pulse crops are mung, biri, arhar and kulthi occupying 88% of the total pulse area. Fibre crops are grown on 1% of the cropped area, the major being cotton accounting for 60% of the total fibre area. Vegetables are grown on 7.7% and condiments on 1.7% of the cropped area. The major condiments are chilli. Sugarcane occupies less than 0.5% of the cropped area.

9. Thrust Area Identified by KVK 

• Varietal substitution of field and vegetable crops yield  
• Promoting INM, IPM, IWM in cereals, pulses, oilseeds and vegetables
• To emphasize on management of problematic soil
• To advocate intensive and integrated pisciculture practices, fish seed production, ornamental fish culture 
• To emphasize on minor carps and catfish farming 
• To popularize IDM in betelvine 
• To promote farm mechanisation and agro processing
• To promote Pond based IFS
• To advocate profitable dairy and goatary 
• To propagate mushroom cultivation, bee keeping and floriculture
• To emphasize on entrepreneurship development
• To focus on value addition of fruits, vegetables and lowcost marine fish 
• To address household food security

 10. Adopted Villages of KVK (Adopted since 10 years)