From Director’s Desk . . . .This Newsletter highlights some of the salient

research and training achievements made and othersignificant activities performed during the periodunder report.

β- Version of user friendly software module for thegeneration of Alpha designs has been developed. Thismodule generates the alpha array and alpha designalong with lower bounds to A and D-efficiency. The alphaarray and the design is generated once the user enterthe number of treatments (v), number of replications(r) and the block size (k). The module generates thedesign for any v, k, r provided v is a multiple of k.

A nested block design is defined as two systemsof blocks such that the second system of blocks isnested within the first system of blocks. These designsare quite useful in many experimental situations. In anexperiment conducted in block designs whereinharvested samples are analysed for their contents eitherby different technicians at the same time or by atechnician over different period of time. The variationdue to technicians or time periods may be controlledby another blocking system. Technicians or time periodsform a system of blocks that are nested within blocks.A catalogue of NBIB designs has been prepared. Suchexperimental situations are also common in post harvestvalue addition of horticultural and vegetable crops.

Three twenty one days training programmes entitled“Data Driven Web Solutions using Open Source Software”,“Recent Advances in Analysis of Survey Data” and“Advanced Studies on Statistical Techniques for AgriculturalResearch with Emphasis on Use of Softwares” havebeen organised. Apart from these a Brain StormingSession on “Statistical Issues in Rapeseed-MustardTrials” has also been organised by the Institute. TheInstitute also participated in number of meetings/conferences/ symposia / workshops, etc. It is hoped thatthe contents of this document would be informative anduseful for scientists in NARS. Any suggestions for furtherimproving the contents of the newsletter would be highlyappreciated.

(SD SHARMA)

RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS

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IN THIS ISSUE

� Research Achievements� Human Resource Development� Panorama of Activities� Honours/Awards� Distinguished Visitors� Computing Facilities� Seminars Delivered� Consultancy/Advisory Services� Publications� Personnel

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

● A twenty one days training programme on “DataDriven Web Solutions using Open Source Software”was organised during 17 September to 04 October2005 under the aegis of Centre of AdvancedStudies. Sh. Vipin Kumar Dubey was the CourseDirector.

● A 21-days Training Programme under Centre ofAdvanced Studies on “Statistical Techniques forAgricultural Research with Emphasis on Use ofSoftwares” was organised from 21 December 2005to 10 January 2006. Dr Seema Jaggi was theCourse Director.

● A Brain Storming Session on “Statistical Issues inRapeseed-Mustard Trials” in collaboration withNational Research Centre on Rapeseed-Mustardwas organised on 19 November 2005 at IASRI, NewDelhi.

● A 21-days Training Programme on “RecentAdvances in the Analysis of Survey Data” wasorganised for the Scientists of ICAR Institutes/Asstt/Associate Professors of SAUs during 18 Novemberto 08 December 2005. Dr KK Tyagi was the CourseDirector.

PANORAMA OF ACTIVITIES

PARTICIPATION OF INSTITUTE IN VARIOUSMEETINGS, ETC.

● Dr SD Sharma, Director, Dr VK Gupta, Joint Director

and various scientists of the Institute attended the 59th

Annual Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural

Statistics held at Shere-e-Kashmir, University of

Agricultural Science & Technology of Jammu, Main

Campus, Chatha, Jammu during 11-13 November

2005.Two symposia were also convened by the

scientists of the Institute.

● Dr SD Sharma, Director, Dr VK Gupta, Joint Director

and four scientists of the Institute attended the 8th

Annual Conference of the Society of Statistics,

Computer and Applications held at Department of

Statistics and Computer Science, Government

Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati

during 28-30 November 2005. One scientist chaired a

session of Contributed Papers.

● One Scientist attended the workshop on “Initiating

network programme on conservation agriculture” held

on 10 November 2005 at PDCSR, Modipuram.

● One scientist attended Plant health – global wealth -

IInd Global conference organized by Indian Society of

Mycology and Plant Pathology at Udaipur during 25-

27 November 2005.

● One Scientist attended an eight days workshop as

member of the writing team for the development of

textbook on Science & Technology at Upper Primary

Stage (Class VI) during 21-28 November 2005 at

NCERT, New Delhi.

● One Scientist attended a workshop on “Monitoring &

Evaluation for NAIP” on 21 November 2005 held at

PIU, NATP, KAB-II, New Delhi.

● Two scientists attended “International Biometric Society

(Indian Region) conference” held at Department of

Agricultural Statistics, University of Agricultural

Sciences, Bangalore during 04-07 October 2005.

● One scientist delivered an invited talk on “ANN and their

applications” on 06 October 2005 in International

Biometric Society (Indian Region) Bangalore.

● One scientist participated in the meeting of Book

Development team for Science & Technology for Upper

Primary classes during 14-18 October 2005 held at

NCERT, New Delhi.

● One scientist participated in the meeting on Forecasting

Agricultural output using Space, Agro-meteorology and

Land based observations (FASAL) on 20 October 2005

at Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi.

● One scientist attended the Steering Committee meeting

of the project entitled “A pilot study to develop an

alternate methodology for estimation of area and

production of horticultural crops” at the Institute on 25

October, 2005.

● One scientist attended a meeting of NAIP component

on 26 October 2005 to finalize the districts and blocks

of low livelihood. A Livelihood Status Index has been

developed for each agro-climatic zone of the country

by integrating six different indices i.e. Infrastructural

Status Index, Economic Status Index, Health and

Sanitation Index, Agricultural Status Index, Food

Availability Status Index and Nutrition Status Index.

● One scientist chaired different sessions of the first

regional meeting of the project entitled “Assessment of

post harvest losses” at CIPHET, Ludhiana during

28-29 October 2005.

● One scientist visited CIAE, Bhopal to participate in the

II Regional meeting and chaired technical session for

reviewing the progress of the project entitled

“Assessment of harvest and post-harvest losses” on

08 November 2005.

● One scientist attended the meeting of NAIP (National

Agriculture Innovative Project) Progress Review with

World Bank Mission on 14 November, 2005 held at PIU,

NATP, KAB-II, New Delhi.

● Two scientists attended Biotech-2005, a 3rd National

conference of Biotechnology Society of India, during

22-24 December 2005 at Manesar, Gurgoan.

● Scientists associated with project entitled “Study relating

to formulating long term mechanisation strategy for

each agro-climatic zone/state”, participated in a meeting

with the Chairman/Members of the Editorial Committee

during 23-25 November 2005 at IASRI, New Delhi. Dr

BS Pathak, Director, SPRERI & Chairman, Editorial

Committee, chaired the meeting.

● One scientist visited West Bengal University of Animal

and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata to participate in the III

Regional meeting and chaired various technical

sessions for reviewing the progress of the project

entitled “Assessment of harvest and post-harvest

losses” during 28-29 November 2005.

● One scientist attended two days training program on

ARC-IMS, a web based GIS software at NIIT, ESRI

India, New Delhi during 29-30 December 2005.

● One scientist attended Global Land Cover Network

(GLCN) Workshop organized by FAO Rome and

UNEP at IIRS, Dehradun during 19-23 December

2005.

● One scientist participated in the VI Screening

Committee meeting to discuss the project proposal

at CSO, Sardar Patel Bhavan, New Delhi on 21

December 2005.

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HONOURS / AWARDS

● Dr VK Gupta, Joint Director receivedProf PV Sukhatme Gold Medal Award foroutstanding contribution in Agriculture Statisticsfrom Indian Society of Agriculture Statistics.

COMPUTING FACILITIES

Wide Area Network:● Internet services have been provided to the users

and the website of IASRI is being updated regularly.This site has been visited 1,22,552 times since 5September 2003.

SEMINARS DELIVERED

18 seminars on different areas of agricultural statisticsand computer application were conducted.Seminars were delivered for presenting the salientfindings of the completed research projects. Inaddition to these seminars, students’ Outline ofResearch Work (ORW) seminars, thesis seminars andcourse seminars were also delivered for theirrequirement of M.Sc. and Ph.D. (AgriculturalStatistics) and M.Sc. (Computer Application) degrees.The two guest speakers were Dr Sat Gupta and DrAloke Dey.

● Dr Rajender Parsad, National fellow was nominatedas Member Governing Body of the Institute of AppliedStatistics and Development Studies, Lucknow.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

● Dr Nienke M Beintema, Head Agricultural Science &Technology Indicators(ASTI) Initiative, ISNAR Division,IFPRI, Washington, DC 20006-1002 USA visited theInstitute on 09 December 2005.

● Dr Rajender Parsad, National fellow receivedDr. D.N. Lal Memorial Lecture award from IndianSociety of Agricultural Statistics.

CONSULTANCY/ADVISORY SERVICES● Dr Geeta Singh, Sr Scientist from Division of Micro-

biology, IARI, New Delhi was advised on theanalysis of data pertaining to an experimentconducted to find out the optimum combination oftime period, temperature and organisms each atfour levels.

● The scientists of the Institute provided advisoryservices for development of Terms of Reference forappointment of consultant for development ofManagement Information System for NAIP.

● The scientists of the Institute provided advisoryservices to O&M group of NAIP for development ofproject monitoring indicators.

LECTURE DELIVERED● One scientist delivered a lecture on “Principles of

Data Mining” on 20 October 2005 at Karnal duringa workshop entitled “Trends in ComputationalBiology” organised by NDRI, Karnal, Haryanaduring 18-20 October 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

Research Papers Published● Rao, AR, Varghese, Cini and Sharma, VK (2005).

Robustness of repeated measurements designs

The details of Seminar Delivered

Category Type of seminar Number

Student Course 10Thesis 05

Scientist Project completion 01

Outsider Guest 02

Total 18

against missing observation(s). Ind. J. Dairy Sc.,58(4), 281-286.

● Singh, DR and Kaul, Sushila (2005). Evaluation oftechnological intervention in rearing migratorysheep in Ajmer district. Bhartiya Krishi AnusandhanPatrika, 20(2 and 3), 30-39.

● Chattopadhyay, C, Agrawal, R, Kumar, A, Bhar, LM,Meena, PD, Meena, RL, Khan, SA, Chattopadhyay,AK, Awasthi, RP, Singh, SN, Chakravarthy, NV,Kumar, A, Singh, RB and Bhunia, CK (2005).Epidemiology and forecasting of Alternaria blightof oilseed Brassica in India - a case study. J. PlantDis. and Prot. 112, 351-365.

● Chattopadhyay, C, Agrarwal, R, Kumar, Amrender,Singh, YP, Roy, SK, Khan, SA, Bhar, LM,Chakravarthy, NVK, Srivastava, A, Patel, BS,Srivastava, B, Singh, CP and Mehta, SC (2005).Forecasting of Lipaphis erysimi on oi lseedBrassicas in India - a case study. Crop Protection24, 1042-1053.

● Kumar, NV and Rai, Anil (2002). Design of datamarts for plantation crops. Proceedings ofPlacrosym, XV, 784 -790.

● Sharma, Anu, Varghese, Cini, Jaggi, Seema andSharma, VK (2005). A Computer Software forPBIB(3) Designs and Partial Diallel Crosses. J. Ind.Soc. Agric. Statist., 59 (1), 67-76.

Research Papers Accepted for Publication● Sahoo, Prachi Misra, Rai, Anil, Singh, Randhir,

Handique, BK and Rao, CS. Integrated approachbased on remote sensing and GIS for estimationof area under Paddy crop in North-Eastern hillyregion. J. Ind. Soc. Agric. Statist.

● Gupta, AK and Narang, MS. Effects of fertilizer,irr igation and insecticides on the yield ofvegetables. Int. J. Agric. Statist. & Sc., Muzaffar-nagar.

● Kumar, Rajendra and Kapoor, JK. Methodologicalstudy of composite yardsticks of addit ionalproduction from the use of cultural practices atoptimum level of fertilizer nutrients for various crops.Ann. Agric. Res., 26(2).

● Ghosh, H, Dey, A and Midha, CK. Optimal designsfor estimation of ratio of variance components indiallel crosses. Sankhya.

● Ghosh, H, Sunilkumar, G and Prajneshu. MixtureNon linear time series Analysis: Modelling andForecasting. Cal. Statist. Asso. Bull.

Research Paper Presented in the Conference

● A paper entitled “Trend-free nested balancedincomplete block designs with applications indesigns for diallel cross experiments by Krishan Lal,Rajender Parsad and VK Gupta (was presented aslead paper by Dr. Krishan Lal) in the session onExperimental Designs organized during the

A View of meeting with Prof. Nienke M. BeintemaHead, Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators(ASTI) Initiative, ISNAR Division, IFPRI at IASRI

Saleable Technologies

• Statistical Package for FactorialExperiments (SPFE 1.0)

• Statistical Package for Agricultural Research(SPAR 2.0)

• Statistical Package for Agricultural Designs(SPAD)

• Statistical Package for Block Designs(SPBD 1.0)

• Statistical Package for Animal Breeding(SPAB)

Forthcoming Training ProgammesUnder Centre of Advanced Studies

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Forthcoming International Conferenceon

Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Researchon the occasion of

60th Diamond Jubilee Conference ofIndian Society of Agricultural Statistics

(27-30 December 2006)

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International Biometric Society (Indian Region)conference held during 04-07 October 2005 atDepartment of Agricultural Statistics, University ofAgricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

● A paper entitled “Response of wheat to differentplanting schedules moisture regime and N-fertilization in semi-arid regions”. written jointly byRN Garg, RK Tomar, Ranjana Aggarwal, RajendarKumar, D Chakraborty, RN Sahoo, VK Gupta,N Kalra and S Singh (2005) was presented inNational Symposium on eff icient watermanagement for eco-friendly sustainable andprofitable agriculture, held during the period 01-03December 2005 at IARI, New Delhi.

● A paper on “Determination of optimum number ofsimple sequence repeat markers for geneticdiversity in rice” written jointly by Ramesh Kolluru,AR Rao, T Mohapatra and VT Prabhakaran waspresented in the poster session of Biotech-2005,3rd National conference of Biotechnology Society ofIndia, during 22-24 December 2005 at Manesar,Gurgoan.

● A paper entitled “Role of information technology forentrepreneurship development in agriculture” byShahnawazul Islam, Hari Om Agarwal, JP Sharmaand Mohd. Samir Farooqi was presented in theconference ‘National Seminar on EntrepreneurshipDevelopment For Livelihood Security - Experiences,Prospects & Strategies for Rural India’ organizedat IVRI, Izzatnagar, Bareil ly, U.P. during 29November to 01 December 2005.

PERSONNEL

Transfer

● Dr. GK Jha, Scientist(SS) relieved on 16 November2005 to join IIPR, Kanpur.

Congratulations on your promotion

● Sh RM Bhasin, Scientist(SS) w.e.f. 01/07/1997

● Dr. (Smt.) Prachi Mishra Sahoo, Scientist (SS)

w.e.f. 09/08/2004

● Md. Samir Faruqi, Scientist(SS) w.e.f. 29/09/2004

● Sh. Shashi Bhushan Lal, Scientist(SS)

w.e.f. 28/01/2004

● Sh. Khem Chand, K.P.O. (T-3) w.e.f. 01/01/03

● Sh. Sanjeev Pawar, T.A. (T-4) w.e.f. 19/08/03

● Sh. Jai Bhagwan, A.E.C.O., (T-4) w.e.f. 27/08/04

● Sh. S.D. Sharma, A.E.C.O., (T-4) w.e.f. 02/09/04

● Sh. Anil Kumar, A.E.C.O., (T-4) w.e.f. 08/09/04

● Sh. Virender Kumar, A.E.C.O., (T-4) w.e.f.

15/09/04

● Smt. Swatantra Munjaal, K.P.O., (T-5) w.e.f.

01/01/05

● Smt. Renu Datta, K.P.O., T.O. (T-5) w.e.f. 01/01/05

● Smt. K.K. Bhutani , K.P.O. (T-5) w.e.f. 01/01/05

● Smt. Motia Rani Suri, K.P.O. (T-5) w.e.f. 01/01/05

● Smt. Kathrin Kajoor, K.P.O. (T-5) w.e.f. 01/01/05

● Sh. M. Kashivishwanathan, T.A. (T-4) w.e.f.

01/01/05

● Sh. V.S. Gautam F.O. (T-5) w.e.f. 01/01/05

● Smt. Shakuntala Devi, K.P.O. (T-3) w.e.f. 12/08/03

We wish you a happy retired life

● Sh. Mangal Singh, S.S. Grade IV w.e.f. 31/10/05

Suspension/Restoration

● Suspension of Sh. Mukesh Kumar, Jr. Clerk has

been revoked w.e.f. 12/12/2005 vide order no.

1(43)/2005-OMV dated 26/12/2005.

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