REPORT ON RURAL AGRICULTURE WORK EXPERIENCE (RAWE)

AND

AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT (AIA)

SUBMITTED TO CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY IN

PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURE (HONS.)

BY
Mahendra Paudel (16BAG7266)

To

Department of Agriculture Extension

University Institute of Agricultural Sciences
CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY
NH-95, Ludhiana - Chandigarh State Highway, Punjab-140413
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, I am thankful to Almighty for showering his blessing for the successful
completion of this work.
It is my proud privilege to express our deep sense of gratitude and words of cordial veneration
from deepest part of heart to my course coordinator Dr. Gurvinder Aulakh , Assistant Professor,
University Institute of Agricultural Sciences for his sustained and valuable guidance,
constructive suggestions, friendly approach, constant support and encouragement during conduct
of this course.
I am specially greatful to our course teacher Mr. Dheeraj Kamboj, Assistant Professor,
University Institute of Agricultural Sciences for his valuable suggestions and help provided
during the study. He had been very kind to us in extending all posible help during conduct of this
course.
I place deep sense of obligation to Dr. Surender Siwach (Professor-cum-Director, UIAS) and
Dr. Praveen Kumar Jain (Professor-cum-Head of Department,UIAS) and appreciation goes to
all the faculty member of University Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Chandigarh University
who has provided guidance and their constant support with unfailing patience throughout the
entire academic session.
I consider it as my privilege to express my deep-felt gradtitude to Mr. Bashistha Acharya
(Technical officer, Plant Pathology- Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Regional agriculture
research station, Khajura Banke, Nepal ) for his invaluable guidance, constant encouragement,
friendly attitude, useful discussion and peerless critisim during my “Agro-Industrial
Attachment” which help me to learn somethinng new at each and every moment during my stay
at RARS, Khajura, Nepal. He has always been a fountain of inspiration to me .
My sincere thanks to all the Scientists, Technical Officers, Faculty members in the Department
of Plant Pathology, Department of Soil science, Department of Horticulture, Department of
Plant breeding and Genetics and Department of Agronomy, RARS, Khajura for their valuable
help and moral support during “Agro-Industrial attachment” module.
I dedicated this golden chapter of my life to the entire farming community of village Rora,
Gharuan, Batta, Sil, Vivipur and nearby areas who had been always kind and supportive to me
with their unfailing patience during my village attachment.
The love and hospitality of villagers was really heart touching, without their cooperation I could
not have complete our work properly. Specially, I am very much thankful to “Rural Agriculture
Work Experience” and “ Agro-Industrial Attachment” for enabling me to differentiate between
theoretical knowledge of book and real picture of rural agriculture.
It is not possible to give a mention to everybody by words but We are gratified to everyone who
had been a source of moral support and inspiration directly or indirectly during conduct of this
course.

Date : Mahendra Paudel

Place : B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.)

VII Semester
 DECLARATION

I, hereby declare that the present project assignment entitled, "Rural Agriculture Work
Experience" and “ Agro-Industrial Attachment” submitted by me in partial fulfillment of the
requirement of degree of “BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE (HONS.) under
Chandigarh University is my own work. The report has not been submitted for the award of any
other degree of this university or any other university.

_______________
Student: Mahendra Paudel
(16BAG7266)
B.Sc. Agriculture( Hons.)
VII semester

_________________
Forwarding: Dr. Surender Siwach
Professor-cum-Director
University Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Chandigarh University
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certified that the report entitled as “ Rural Agriculture Work Experience (RAWE) ”
and “Agro-Industrial Attachment (AIA) is prepared and submitted by Mahendra Paudel, UID:
16BAG7266 under Student Ready Programmme conducted from 2019/07/15 to 2019/09/15
under supervision and guidance of our faculty.
His conduct during the training was excellent. I wish him all the very best for his future
endeavors.

_________________ _____________________
Dr. Surender Siwach Dr. Praveen Kumar Jain
(Professor-cum-Director, UIAS) (Professor-cum-Head of Department,UIAS)

_____________ _____________
Dr. Gurvinder Aulakh Mr. Dheeraj Kamboj
(Assistant Professor-cum-RAWE cordinator, UIAS) (Assistant Professor,UIAS)
 CONTENTS
RURAL AGRICUTURE WORK EXPERIENCE (RAWE)
COMPONENT- I VILLAGE ATTACHMENT
S.N INDEX PAGE
. NO
1 Acknowledgement 2
2 Acronyms 8
3 Introduction and objectives of RAWE 09-10
4 Survey and study of village Batta 11
5 Farmers data and their socio-economic study 12-31
6 Soil testing survey 32-40
7 Gap adoption survey 41-46
8 Exposure visits- PAU, Kisan mela and National Agri-Food Biotechnolgy 47-51
Institute (NABI)
9 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations 52-53
COMPONENT-II AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT(AIA)
10 Certificate of training 55

11 Nepal Agriculture Research Council(NARC) -Regional Agricultural 56-59

Research Station(RARS)- Khajura, Banke, Nepal-Organizational structure.
DIVISION OF PLANT PATHOLOGY TRAINING
I. Spawn and Mushroom production technology
12 Introduction 60-61
13 Familiarization with laboratory equipment used in mushroom cultivation 62
14 Preparation of nutrient media 63-64
15 Preparation of pure and mother culture of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus 65-66
florida)
16 Spawn production technolgy of oyster mushroom 67-69
17 Method of cultivation of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus florida) 70-72
18 Conclusion 73
II. Dual culture technology- In vitro assay of Trichoderma isolates vs Rhizoctonia solani
of banded leaf and sheath blight of maize
19 Introduction 74
20 Methodology 75-78
21 Results and discussion 79-81
22 conclusion 82
III. Screening of Rice genotypes against leaf blast diseases (Pyricularia oryzae)
23 Introduction 83
24 Observation of experimental design 84-85
25 Cataloguing of planting material 86
26 Assessment of disease 87-88
 27 Scoring of disease 88
28 Results and discusion 89
29 Conclusion 90
DIVISION OF SOIL SCIENCE TRAINING
I. Soil analysis training
30 Method of soil sampling 91-92
31 Estimation of soil pH 93-94
32 Estimation available phosphorus of soil 95-98
33 Estimation of organic matter of soil sample 99-101
34 Estimation of available nitrogen of soil sample from value of o.m. 102
DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE TRAINING
35 Nursery raising and transplanting of prominent tomato hybrids of Nepal 103-105
36 REVIEW PAPER- BAKANE OF RICE: A SERIOUS DISEASE IN 106-114
PUNJAB
37 CONCLUSION 115
38 REFERENCES 116

ACRONYMS

 AIA = Agro Industrial Attachment

 a.i. = Active ingredient
 D.w. = Distilled water
 DOA= Department of Agriculture
 KVK= Krishi Vigyan Kendra
 NABI= National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
 NARC= Nepal Agricultural Research Council
 pH = Potential of hydrogen
 PDA= Potato Dextrose Agar
 R.s. = Rhizoctonia solani
 PAU= Punjab Agricultural University
 PRA= Participatory rural appraisal
 RRA= Rapid rural appraisal
 RARS= Regional Agriculture Research Station
 RAWE = Rural Agriculture Work Experience
 SAU = State Agricultural University
 UIAS= University Institute of Agricultural Sciences