Crops

Major problems identified

Rice

• Difficulty adopting SRI
• Low yield due to stem borer, leaf folder and sheath rot, Brown Plant Hopper
• Low yield due to depletion of micro nutrients, sodicity
• Low productivity in direct sown paddy due to weed menace
• Non availability of labour for transplanting

Groundnut

• Poor population due to traditional method of sowing
• Drudgery of farm women

Home Science

• Mal nutrient in pre school children

Rice fallow black gram

• Low yield due to severe incidence of spodoptera

Forage

• Non availability of green fooder

Vegetables

• Production of poor quality seedlings
• Low yield due to shoot and fruit borer

Rice fallow cotton

• Poor germination and establishment