Scientific Input

Management

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT, GUJARAT

Scientific Input Management contribute to a valuable framework for a future Sustainable Agriculture

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH

SOIL & WATER : ISSUES

Need for paradigm shift in land husbandry and

Principles and practices for soil and water management

SOIL & WATER : ACHIEVEMENTS

Combined use of all the resources to nourish the plant

SOIL & WATER : FUTURE PLANNING

To feed our people, we must first feed our soil

To Identify the need base requirement of nutrients…•Existing STL will be equipped with micro nutrient testing facility.•Facility of leaf tissue analysis in 40 laboratories•Laboratory for mapping and atlas preparation of beneficial organism

To nourish the soil in sustainable manner…•Establishment of large scale combined micro nutrient production unit•Establishment of 20 liquid bio fertilizer units in sugar cooperatives •Establishment of Bio compost/ phospho compost and Vermi compost unit in all sugar cooperatives

To get more crop per drop …•Area of horticulture crops will be covered under MIS through more incentives.•Construction of water storage devices in canal command areas will be supported with installation of micro irrigation equipment.

MATERIAL INPUT

Balance & Integrated

use

Qualitative & Suitable verities

IPM & proper

application technique

Multifunctional and affordable

Intensive agriculture is depends on material input but could be sustainable and could access in easy manner.

INPUT SUPPLY PATH

Producer ‘to’ Producer

SEED

Seed Security ‘for’ Food Security

FERTILIZER & PESTICIDES

To Sustain the health of Soil, Ecosystems and People

FARM MECHANIZATION

Integration of Traditional and Scientific Innovations

HUMAN RESOURCES

Success will ultimately depend on how well these complex actions and human resources factors can maintain the sustainable

agriculture

Research & Education

ResearchResearch EducationEducation TrainingTraining

Interdisciplinary approach to Knowledge production

Extension - ATVT

Transformative ImpactTransformative Impact

…………… Scientific Input Management is an important

phenomena in Agriculture that balances the requirements of running a profitable business

with responsibility and sensitivity to the environment.

Thank you