Title of the OFT

Technological options

 Assessing the performance of suitable planting method of sugar cane for better crop establishment

i. Direct planting using two budded sets
ii. Single budded setts
iii Single budded seedlings multiplied by using portray nursery technique and planting 25 – 35 days old seedlings with the spacing of 5 feet between rows.

Assessment of seedling transplanting in watermelon for higher                                     productivity

i.Direct sowing
ii.Transplanting portray seedling at 1.5m X 0.75m spacing
iii.Protray seedling transplanting + polythene film mulch with 1m width.

Refinement of method of planting in banana variety neypoovan for higher profitability

i. Farmers practice at 2m x 2m spacing with single sucker per hill (2500 plants / ha)
ii. Paired row spacing 1.5m X 1.5m X 2m Paired row method of planting with single sucker
iii. Two sucker per hill with the spacing 2m X 3m (3333 plants / ha) 33% more plants than conventional planting system

Assessment of two varieties of China Aster for their suitability under open field conditions of in Karur district

i.Chrysanthemum cultivation
ii. Cultivation of China Aster var Hosur Local during winter  months
iii. Cultivation of China Aster variety Kamini during winter  months

Assessment of multi row power weeder and battery operated  power weeder in paddy

i.Cono weeder
ii. TNAU power weeder
iii. Single row power weeder designed by KVK,Madurai

Control of Ranikhet disease in desi chicken

i. No vaccination or vaccination at 8th to 10th RDVK vaccine at veterinary dispensaries
ii. 1.Lasota vaccine-eye drops-7th and 14th day
2.RDVK-Subcutaneous 8th and 16th week
iii. 1.Oral pellet ranikhet vaccine on the 7th to 14th day
2.RDVK-
Subcutaneous 8th and 16th week

Approaches for drudgery reduction and quality improvement of  Banana fibre by refinement

i. Hand stripping
ii. Retting by means of chemical – NaOH @10% at 60 0 C water for  two days.
iii. Retting by means of microbial organism (CAP culture @ 250gm under 1:10:1 (1 kg fibre with 10 litre water with 1 kg  jaggery) 40o C  for 2 days.

Management of foot rot in betelvine

i. Spraying mancozeb 2g/lit
ii. Premonsoon Soil drenching 0.25 % of Bordeaux mixture @  1lit + 0.5 g Streptocyclin – Soil application of Trichoderma viride 1 kg+ 100 kg FYM +10 kg neem cake (once in three months)
iii. Premonsoon Soil drenching 0.25 % of Bordeaux mixture @  1lit + 0.5 g Streptocyclin – Soil application of Pseudomonas fluroscens 1 kg+ 100 kg FYM +10 kg neem cake (once in three months)