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Development of rapid cost effective testing methods to identify whether the crop has been grown organically(Phase II: 2014-19).
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Image forming techniques such as Circular Paper Chromatography, Picture Rising Chromatography and Sensitive crystallization are interesting approaches that can be employed to distinguish the organically grown crop product. These technologies are easy and
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Fortified Panchagavya(Phase II: 2014-19)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Production of Panchagavya using five cow based products (Cow Dung, Cow Urine, Ghee, Curd and Milk) , rotten bananas and Jaggery and fermented for 21 days. This liquid manure is well known and us
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Biofertilizers(Phase I: 2014-19) and Biocontrol agents:Biopesticdes (Phase II: 2014-19)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Growing concerns about the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on environmental health, safety to human beings and destruction of non-target pests have led to the development of biological fertilizers and pesticides. At present, Organic farming pra
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Promotion of domestication and cultivation of promising medicinal plants (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Farmers/ land owners can cultivate the medicinal plants that grow widely and having medicinal values to make the sufficient availability of these herbs and at the same time the farmers/ land owners can earn profit. The cultivation of Gymnema sylvestri
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Quantitative and qualitative Improvements in natural Indigo ( 2009-2014)
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Machinery And Tools
Indigo is a natural dye, extracted from Indigofera tinctoria which can be used for dyeing cloths or preparing hair oil. The cultivation of indigo is not labour intensive and the crop doesn’t need much protection. Indigo can be also cultivated as inter crop. The l
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Integrated Solar system to water lifting, chiller & drier, and lighting (Phase II: 2014-19).
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Energy Lighting And Fuel
An integrated system for providing power and water to small village was planned and designed. This system provides 3 key inputs for agri based rural community –Water (for irrigation & safe drinking water using water purifiers, Electric lig
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Use of Biochar and natural (bio)polymers for enhanced crop productivity in dry land areas (Phase II: 2014-19).
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Energy Lighting And Fuel
MCRC has developed a simple, cost effective method to convert different type of agricultural, industrial and commonly available wastes into charcoal by slow pyrolysis method in the absence of oxygen at low temperature using kiln. The ki
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Slow sand Water purifier (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Water And Sanitation
MCRC has developed a simple, cost-effective, biological water purification system using river sand, pebbles, packed in PVC pipe. And carbon in a separate cartridge attached to the main PVC column. This system effectiv
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Nutrient supplement Formulation based on green leaves (Moringa, Curry, Commelina benghalensis, Amaranthus virdis), etc.(Phase I: 2009-14)
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Housing
Among the plants that are rich in micronutrients, Moringa Oleifera is considered to be more important because of its nutritional properties. Intensive cultivation of organic Moringa was initiated around 2005, and a package of practice was developed on the i
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Cultivation of medicinal mushroom(Phase I: 2009-14)
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Health
R&D on the optimization of conditions for spawn production and cultivation of medicinal mushroom, Lentinus edodes is in progress. Besides the development of technology on medicinal mushroom, training on cultivation of edible oyster mushroom is being given to many b
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Vitamate (Humic acid) (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Farmyard manure (FYM) is not available in larger quantity and hence application of less amount of FYM to soils lead to decrease in humic content in the soils.A simple technology was developed at MCRC on product
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Solid waste conversion into biogas mainly using lignocellulosic agri-residues (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Energy Lighting And Fuel
MCRC has designed and developed various biogas systems to produce methane for sustainable fuel supply in rural areas. Various substrates like cow dung, food waste, vegetable waste, algal biomass and leaf biomass of different plants have been tested for bi
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Biodynamic manures (CPP, BD500 and BD compost) (Phase II: 2014-19)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Biodynamic agriculture is a unique organic farming system that deals with soil fertility improvement through soil organic management practices. The technology involves preparation of cow horn manure (BD 500), Cow Pat Pit (CPP) and Biodynamic compost (B
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Development of salt tolerant earthworm composting system (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Salt tolerant earthworm compost as bio-amendment can be used to enrich quality and for reclaiming saline or alkaline or problematic agricultural soil. The sea grasses and drift weeds in coastal area can be exploited for income generation by the costal peo
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Solar stills for water (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Energy Lighting And Fuel
MCRC developed solar stills for converting brackish water to potable water. MCRC has developed different types of solar stills for converting brackish, sea, or any poor quality water into safe drinking water. Apart from solar water distillation units, des
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Hand made paper from alternate sources of fiber ( Biopulping and Biobleaching)(Phase I: 2009-14)
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Generally, the papers are made from wood pulp. This leads to deforestation. Secondly, pulping and bleaching of wood requires many chemical treatments and more energy and water. An alternate method of preparing paper from non woody plants such as Hibiscus cannabinus (Kenaf), Lemon grass, Palma
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Solar drier for vegetables and herbs (Phase I: 2009-14)
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Energy Lighting And Fuel
Solar drier is a device where solar energy is captured through photovoltaic cells and transferred to the chambers connected to it and this energy is utilized for drying the samples. At MCRC, a solar drier to dry 50 kg of vegetables/fruits/ 10 kg of leaves was fabricated. The advantage of our m
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Biomass Charcoal Briquetting from different agrowaste(Phase I: 2009-2014)
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Energy Lighting And Fuel
This technology addresses the management of agro waste generated during agricultural operations and converting them as useful products. This technology was adopted from ARTI, PUNE during 2006 and modified for easy operation. A prototype model kiln was developed during DST Young Scientist Progr
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Technology for testing soil, leaves and produce for advisory service to farmers.
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Housing
The conventional technologies for testing the quality of soil, leaves and produce are time consuming, expensive and doesn’t address the life forces involved. At MCRC, the procedure for carrying out the testing was standardized and the image interpreted by comparing biochemical parameters for testi
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