PARTICIPATION IN VIKSHIT BHARAT SANKALP YATRA BY KVK, WYRA FROM 01.01.2024 TO 25.01.2024

Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra was undertaken across the country with the aim to attain saturation of government flagship schemes ensuring that the benefits of these schemes to reach all targeted beneficiaries in a time bound manner. KVK, Wyra participated in VBSY programmes across the cross section of Khammam district along with other government departments like Health, Agriculture, Horticulture, ICDS, postal and gas agencies from 01.01.2024 to 25.04.2024. In these meetings, KVK, Wyra faculty has addressed the farmer gatherings on soil health management, soil health cards, soil sample collection, natural farming through group discussion, trainings, demonstrations and so on. Soil testing is an integral part of a soil fertility management program. Effective soil testing provides information on the fertility status of soils within a field that can be used for making fertilizer recommendations, changes in soil fertility over time and even identifying and targeting low fertility soils within larger fields. Informative soil sampling can improve on-farm nutrient efficiency, leading to increased return on investment for fertilizer and decreased risk of off-site nutrient movement. The soil extract is designed to evaluate a portion of the nutrients from the same "pool" used by the plant. To predict the probability of obtaining a profitable response to fertilizer application, the soil tests report has nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which are the most important nutrients for crops. Natural farming is the way of farming or “do-nothing” farming which is an ecological farming approach established by Masanobu Fukuoka in Japan. The system works along with the natural biodiversity of the farming area which encourages the complexity of living organisms with both plants and animals that shapes the ecosystem to thrive along with food plants. This farming system can reduce water pollution, restore biodiversity and prevent soil erosion along with providing sufficient food. It can help agroecology and regenerative agriculture that helps soil rejuvenation. It can improve yield, increase farmer income, minimize cost of production, ensure better health, help in employment generation, eliminate the application of chemical inputs, environment conservation and reduce water consumption. KVK can enhance the visibility of extension research, methodologies, approaches and outcome for the benefits of the farming community. KVK can provide capacity development of different stakeholders in effective decision making in production, post-production and marketing by large scale adoption of technologies. To demonstrate the new improved technology to the farmers as well as to the extension agency directly in the farmers field with their active participation. To identify the area specific problems of the farmers and prioritization of the identified problems as per their importance. Sri. Mohan Singh Mehta appointed by ICAR in 1973 with the idea of establishment of Farm Science Centre (Krishi Vigyan Kendra) was developed. The first KVK on a pilot basis was established in 1974 at Pondicherry under the administrative control of the TNAU, Coimbatore. Along with these, KVK, Wyra Programme Coordinator Dr. A. Sailaja, Scientists Smt. P.S. M Phanisri, Dr. K. Ravi Kumar, Dr. D. Nagaraju, Dr. Jessie Suneetha W along with other technical staff have detailed on various development activities in agriculture and allied sectors and role of KVKs in extending them to farmers for their all-round development for improving their productivity and income.