Key deliverables:
- Bio-inputs supply & demand study report
- Large scale production of potential bio-inputs viz, Trichoderma, Pseudomonas, and Beauveria
- Skill training for farmers/SHGs in production of selected bio-inputs
- Demonstration plots for the usage of the bio-inputs
- Training Manuals on Bio-inputs
- Facilitating marketing units of the selected bio-inputs
Highlights from Core area 4:
Bio-Inputs Production, Use and Marketing Initiative
This initiative is based on our studies revealing the growing gap between demand and supply of quaity bio-inputs for agriculture in the district
- Two and a half tonnes of bio-inputs (bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers) has been produced in the Microbiology laboratory during the period and reached to more than
- 1200 farmers of the district.
- The two women SHG’s formed for the production of bio-inputs have took up bio-input production as an additional income generation activity.
- Mushroom spawns of 7 tonnes were produced and distributed to more than 2000 mushroom farmers of the district
- Native strains of beneficial microorganisms such as Pseudomonas fluorescence, Trichoderma sp., Bacillus sp. and Phosphate solubilizing bacterium
- have been isolated from the soils of Wayanad district.
- Two plant based formulations in the control of major agriculture diseases of the district (foot rot in pepper and wilt in vegetable crops) have identified and trials are progressing.
- Nine scientific publications have been brought out related to bio-inputs and phytochemical characterization, 1book on success stories in agriculture, 8 radio talks and 5 pamphlets on five bio-inputs were prepared.
- Students are benefitting out of the laboratory and 6 MSc. Dissertations have completed during the period and some students has got national level recognition for their work
Potential Enterprising Activity Identified and Promoted
- Production of bio-inputs (bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers) in agriculture
- Mushroom Cultivation