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Information pertaining to the Agricultural College Farm Naira

1 Name of the college : Agricultural College, Farm, Naira
2 Location and place : Naira, Srikakulam
3 Year of establishment : 1989
4 Land area allotted (Acres) :

270.77 ac

State Land (Under Nambala tank)

19.46

Actual arable land available

251.31

Area earmarked for other institutes
Area allotted to KVK, Amadalavalasa

30.00

Area proposed to bealloted to NRRI Cuttack

20.00*

Area alienated to farmer as per court order

0.24

Sub total

50.24

*Area of 6 acres under varietal trials of NRRI on lease and remaining 14 acres with Ag college, Naira.
5 Area under buildings and roads : 62.57ac
6 Area under landscape : 2.0 ac
7 Area under college farm : 155.0 ac (100 ac cultivable area+55 ac under orchards)
a. Cultivated area : 100ac
b. Area under buildings and others : 64.57ac
c. Fallow land if any :
Cultivated area (area in acres) : 100 ac
  1. Dry land
: 50.0 ac
  1. Wet land
: 32.6 ac
  1. Irrigated dry
: 17.4 ac
8 Source of irrigation and area under the source
  1. Open Wells
: 4No.s
  1. Bore wells

Depth of Bore well
Depth of installation of motor

 

:
:

2 No.s ( Submersible at Vamsadhara riverbed)
23feet
20 feet
  1. Canals
: 1(Vamsadhara right canal connectingChintada – S.S valasa to Alikam (L28))
9. Particulars of the cultivated area
Block Number Area in acres Soil type Type of farming
(Wet/ID/Dry)
A 10.32 Red Sandy soils Dry land
A1 10.34
B 9.10 Red soils with clay based Dry land and Irrigated dry
C 8.50
D 11.59 Loamy soils with clay base
E 31.24 Alluvial soils with clay base Wetland
F 8.61 Red earth with loamy sub soils Dryland
G 10.30 Irrigated dry

 

10

Soil Fertility status

 

 

 

 

Type of soil

Block numbers

OC (%)

pH

Ec (ds/m)

NPK status (Kg/ha)

Red Sandy soils

A

0.38

7.22

0.30

127,5.23,  199

A1

0.32

7.12

0.15

151,5.75,  291
Red soils with clay based

B

0.21

7.25

0.48

126,9.01,  422

C

0.60

6.68

0.36

489,3.90,  175
Loamy soils with clay base

D

0.32

7.42

0.08

256,7.35,  139
Alluvial soils with clay base

E

0.95

6.94

0.70

656,  5.90,  163
Red earth with loamy sub soils

F

0.22

7.62

0.21

126,4.50,177

G

0.23

7.23

0.28

102,6.98,  289
11 Land utilization pattern
Item Area in acres
  1. Crop Cafeteria
1 ac
  1. Demonstration units
0.75 ac
  1. ELP units
1.5 ac
  1. Orchards (give crop wisedetails)
55 ac
  1. Coconut
15 ac
  1. Guava
13 ac
  1. Sapota
7 ac
  1. Mango
14 ac
  1. Cashew
6 ac
  1. Field crops
96.75 ac
  1. Rice
89.0 acres
  1. Redgram
4.0 acres
  1. Greengram
1.0 ac
  1. IFS Demo plot rice fish
0.75 ac
  1. Sunhemp, Dhaincha seed production
2.0 ac

 

12

Distribution pattern for field crops

 

 

 

Seed production (Give details of area, variety and type of seed) Area in acres

Crop

Variety

Area (acres)

Type of seed

Rice

MTU – 1061

25.0

Foundation seed

MTU – 1210

15.0

MTU – 1224

10.0

BPT – 5204

11.0

MTU – 1121

7.0

MTU -1064

5.0

MTU -1318

3.0

Redgram

LRG – 52

1.5

Sesame

YLM – 17

5.0

Mesta

AMV – 7

5.0

Greengram

IPM – 2-14

5.0

Truthfully labelled seed

Blackgram

LBG – 787

5.0

Sunhemp&Dhaincha

2.0

Bulk crop

Sunhemp

Inter crop in Mango & Coconut Orchard

Horse gram

Inter crop in Sapota& Coconut Orchard
13. Demonstration units in the farm
Unit Production details
IFS Demo Unit Area : 0.75 ac
Crop Component : Rice Variety MTU – 1210
Horticultural Components :
Papayya, Banana, Drum Sticks & Marigold
Fish Component : Rohu&Katla

 

 

14. Staff available in farm
Position Sanctioned Filled vacant Remarks

Farm Superintendent (Assistant Prof.)

01

01

Sub Assistant (AEO)

01

01

JACT (Store Keeper)

00

00

Office Subordinate

01

01

Agricultural work man

02

02

15. Expenditure and returns:

 

 

 

Year

Expenditure
(Rs.)

Gross Returns
(Rs.)

NetReturns
(Rs.)

2019-20

9,17,723

29,74,928

20,57,205

2020-21

14,48,151

40,44,424

25,96,273

2021-22

20,98,302

38,94,156

17,95,854

16 Meteorological observatory Class – B meteorological observatory
17 Details of tractors and
farm machinery
4 tractors
(Mahindra – 2, JohnDheer  -2
Thresher – 1
Reaper – 1
18 Details of work animals Nil
19 Details of threshing yards and
storage facilities
Threshing yards – 6
Seed Processing plants- 2
Seed storage Godown – 2