I Rajiv Kumar Patel, student of BSc Hons Agricultural Sciences at Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi Uttar Pradesh India, presented my slide on Student READY Programme (SRP). You can contact me through e-mail chlorophyllinhuman@gmail.com for any suggestion/claim.

1. BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
Varanasi, 221005

2. Student READY Programme
Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness
Development Yojana
Rajiv Kumar Patel
17212AGC103
BSc (Hons) Ag. Part IV, 7th sem.

3. Student READY Programme (Overview)
Departmental Learning
KVK visit
Soil Testing Lab visit
IIVR visit
NSRTC visit
Farmers Field visit cum learning
Problems and Challenges of Farmers
ITK’s in Agriculture

4. STUDENT READY: AN OVERVIEW
The Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana) programme aims to
provide rural entrepreneurship awareness, practical experience in real-life situation in rural agriculture
and creating awareness to undergraduate students about practical agriculture and allied sciences. The
programme will help in building confidence, skill and acquire Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK) of
the locality and thereby, preparing the pass-out for self-employment.
It also aims to provide opportunities to acquire hands-on experience and entrepreneurial skills.
Rural Awareness Works Experience:
The Rural Awareness Works Experience (RAWE) helps the students primarily to understand the rural
situations, status of agricultural technologies adopted by farmers, prioritize the farmer’s problems and
to develop skills and attitude of working with farm families for overall development in rural area.

5. DEPARTMENTAL LEARNING
DEPARTMENTAL LEARNING
Agronomy, Horticulture, Ag. Extention, PPH

6. Agronomy
Our learning:
Current status and possible action plan for Agriculture Resource Management
Green revolution and food security
Impact of various agrochemicals on soil health:
Weeds, its Management and Control
Integrated Farming System
Food Acts and Laws
Legumes (Pulse Crop), its area, production and importance.
Entrepreneurship Development through Seed Production and/or Marketing
Opportunities for developing entrepreneurship in Sugarcane based Agro-
industries
Field Demonstration its type and advantage as extention tool.
One year seeding is seven year weeding.

7. Agricultural Extention Education
Questionnaire
How to interact with farmers
Knowing the farmers problem, challenges and provide possible solution
to them.
Survey and data collection of agro based enterprises.
Any farmers can become entrepreneur by
considering his farm as a buisness operation.

8. Horticulture
Kitchen Gardening or
Nutritional gardens
Vertical gardening
Hybrid seed
production
Layout plan for
Orchard of fruits
Cost of cultivation of
different vegetables
crops

9. Plant Physiology
Seed viability test
Seed germination test
Plant tissue culture and its lab establishment
Plant nutrients deficiency
Hydroponics cultivation

10. Soil Science and Agricultural
Chemistry
Soil sampling and processing
Soil testing
PH & EC determination of soil

11. Farm Engineering
Basics of Statistics
Water Resources
Different Farm Machinery

12. KVK Kallipur
Visit

13. Mandates of KVK
Training
Vocational training
On Farm Testing
Front Line Demonstration
KVK Learning and facilities
Vermicomposting
Bee Keeping

14. Krishi Vigyan
Kendra
Learning from KVK
Azolla production
Livestock production
Crop production
Bee Keeping
Farm machinery implements
Vermicomposting

15. Task given by KVK

16. Regional Soil Testing Lab Visit
Farmers bring around 500g of his field soil by following all soil sampling procedures
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They submit their sample in lab along with their soil health card
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Farmers can get their soil nutrients status and recommendation in around 2 days

18. Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR) Visit
Mandates:-
Basic, strategic and applied research to enhance and sustain productivity, monitor quality and utilization of vegetable crops.
Repository of vegetable crops, genetic resources and scientific information.
Transfer of technology, capacity building and impact assessment of technologies.
Coordinate research and validation of technologies under AICRP on vegetable Crops.

19. 3 Division of IIVR
Crop Improvement
Crop Production
Crop Protection
Another wing of IIVR is HRD (Human Resources Development)
Field visit and demonstration:-

20. Greenhouse/
Protected
cultivation
of tomato
Under water
cultivation of
Lotus and
chestnut

21. Central Seed Testing Laboratory
National Seed Research and Training Center (NSRTC) Visit
Mission & Vision
To disseminate the values of seed production and
ensure the availability of high quality seeds to farming
community all over the country.
Provide common platform to all agencies and
organizations concerned with the seed science at
National level.
Transfer of modern technologies in Seed science
through organizing various HRD activities.
Co-ordination with other premier Institute of the
country and globe.
Contribute in systematic manner with integrated
approach to ensure availability of high quality seeds to
user.
Strengthening the “Seed Quality Testing Network” in
the country.

22. Become familier with different instruments used in seed
testing at NSRTC
Controlled cold chamber
for testing seed viability
Seed mixture seperator
cum cleaner
Seed grading machine electric seed
scarifier

23. Seed testing processes
and stages
Seed Herbarium

24. Visit and learning from some fertilizers, seeds and pesticides shops

25. Different Fungicides, insecticide and herbicides
used in agriculture

26. Farmers Field
visit, survey and
learning

27. Site – Mataldevi, vns
Source of income – Vegetable farming
Farm area 8 biswa for vegetables and some of his farm land are far from the home
which is utilized by cereals cultivation
Livestock- 4 Buffalo
Strength
Fertile land
Close to consumer
Self water pump
Vegetable farming is
profitable
Weakness
Lack of technical
expertise
Lack of good crop
varieties
High middleman margin
Opportunity
Use dung as input in
farming
Crop residue as input for
livestock
Shift from conventional
farming to organic farming
Threats
Blue bulls
Calves
High fluctuation in
market prices
SWOT
Analysis

28. Site – vishunpur varanasi
Source of income – livestock production, poultry farming, goat rearing and
subsistance farming.
Strength
Profitable enterprise
Self owned poultry,
goat and cattle shed
Near market/consumer
Weakness
Poor maintenance
Insufficient chicks, goats
and cattle
Lack of technical
knowledge
Opportunities
Make use of dung and
poultry excreta as manure
for marketing
Near KVK for technical
support
May start egg production
Threats
Lack of good feed
materials for livestock
and poultry
Unavailable animal
doctors/caretaker
SWOT
Analysis

29. Site – Mataldevi varanasi
Source of income – Flower cultivation (major)
Area of farm- 10 biswa for flower + 4 biswa for vegetable
Flower crop - Marigold
Strength
Close to maldahiya
flower market
Fertile land and suitable
climate for marigold
Most profitable farming
Weakness
Lack of improved
varieties
Lack of suitable irrigation
facilities
Poor quality planting
materials
Opportunities
Suitable climate and
resources for rose
cultivation
More profit through
greenhouse cultivation
Threats
Blue bulls
Calves
Uneven rain
SWOT
Analysis

30. Site – Mehdiganj varanasi
Source of income – Integrated farming system
Total area around 1acre : 10 biswa fishery + 4 biswa poultry + 10 biswa
vegetable + 6 biswa cereals crop
Livestock - 6 cattle + Vermicomposting
Strength
Full utilization of crop
residue, cow dung, and
poultry excreta
Best earning form land
Insurance against crop
failure
Weakness
Regular labour problem
Laborious to maintain
Improper irrigation
facility
opportunities
Make use of dung and
poultry excreta as manure
for marketing
Near KVK for technical
support
May start egg production
Threats
Blue bulls
Calves
Lack of good feed
materials for livestock
and poultry
SWOT
Analysis

31. IFS
Farmer
Vishunpur
varanasi
Farmer during sowing of wheat crop by
broadcasting method in Adalpura, Vns
Interactio
n with
farmers

32. Blue bulls and calves as a major threats in agricultural
production
Crop destroyed by blue bulls
Productive Solution

33. Different Farm machinery I came across with
during visits
Chouper Seed cum fertilizer drill
Thresher Mould bold plough

34. Continue………..
Chaff cutter
Weed Hoeing machine
Mulcher
Knapsack sprayer

35.  Indigenous Technical knowledge (ITKs) in
Agriculture
1- Spray mixture of salt and water to control major rice weeds.
2- Storage of Onion and garlic by hanging it in roof touch.
3- Use of ash on cucurbits crop to avoid insects pest.
4- Dragonflies flying low indicate the rainfall.
5- For control of some parasites, kerosene is applied on the body of
animals.
6- Spraying neem oil to reduce flower droppings in tomato.

36. Productive Farming and Alternative Foods

37. Solution for higher agricultural
production
1- The area of any crop should be more in the region where it has maximum
productivity to get maximum production.
2- We must follow improved technique which are successful in developed countries.
3- Adopt organic/natural farming.
4- Follow fruitful crop rotation.
5- Follow Integrated pest management, integrated nutrient management, and
integrated disease management.
6- Use of High yielding, disease and drought resistant crops.
7- Replacing inorganic fertilizers with manures and organic fertilizers.
8- Follow scientific and appropriate crop production technology.
9- Extention services must be available everywhere.
10- More than 90% of food we eat comes from our soils yet this natural resource is
disappearing!
To protect our land we need to:
Eat local and seasonal products that use natural resources more wisely.
Reduce food waste
Compost making and use.

38. Conclusion
Student READY Programme helped me a lot us to gain an extra
knowledge in the field of agriculture and allied sciences.
Visits to different agriculture related institutions and interaction with
farmers resulted in cooperative productive results.
This training helped me to gain an ample amount of knowledge apart
from our theory learnings.
I am also grateful to our professors of every department for his
support and make me to gain more in agricultural sciences.

39. THANKYOU
RAJIV KUMAR PATEL