Buffalo Total Lactation Milk Yield Estimation System
About Us
This estimation system comes out of an ICAR Farmer FIRST project led by ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, working with ICAR-IASRI, ICAR-IARI, ICAR-CIAH and CCS HAU. The project set out to improve buffalo production at the farmer's doorstep and to diversify the farming system around it.
The Farmer FIRST (Farm, Innovations, Resources, Science and Technology) programme aims at enriching the farmers–scientist interface, technology assemblage, application and feedback, partnership and institutional building and content mobilization, and has been initiated since October, 2016. It seeks to provide a platform to farmers and scientists for creating linkages, capacity development, technology adaptation and application, on-site input management, feedback and institution building.
The Farmer FIRST Programme (FFP) is an ICAR initiative to move beyond production and productivity, to privilege smallholder agriculture and the complex, diverse and risk prone realities of the majority of farmers through enhancing the farmers–scientists interface. There are concepts and domains that are new in emphasis, such as resource management, climate resilient agriculture, production management including storage, market, supply chains, value chains, innovation systems and information systems.
The Farmer FIRST concept places the farmer in a centric role for research problem identification, prioritization, and the conduct of experiments and their management in farmers' conditions. The focus is on the farmer's Farm, Innovations, Resources, Science and Technology (FIRST). Two terms — enriching knowledge and integrating technology — qualify the meaning of Farmer FIRST in the Indian context. Enriching knowledge signifies the need for the research system as well as farmers to learn from each other in the context of the existing farm environment, their perception of each other, and interactions with the sub-systems established around them. Technology integration is looked at from the perspective that the scientific outputs coming out of research institutions many times do not fit as such in farmers' conditions, and thus certain alterations and adaptations are required at field level for their acceptance, adoption and success.
Co-Principal Investigators
| S. No. | Name of the Co-PI | Designation | Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr Sarita Yadav | Senior Scientist | Division of Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology, ICAR – CIRB, Hisar |
| 2 | Dr PC Lailer | Head & Principal Scientist | — |
| 3 | Sh. Rajkumar Chaudhary | ACTO | ICAR – CIRB, Hisar |
| 4 | Dr. Bharat Singh | Assistant Scientist | Department of Extension Education, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004. Co-PI and university coordinator |
| 5 | Dr. Manjeet Singh | Principal Scientist | Div. Agri. Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. Co-PI and Institute coordinator |
| 6 | Dr Anil Kumar | Principal Scientist | ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi. Co-PI and Institute coordinator |
| 7 | Dr Sukanta Dash | Senior Scientist | — |
| 8 | Dr. Mukesh Kumar* | Senior Scientist & IC AKMU | ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Bikaner |
| 9 | Dr. Ramesh | Scientist (Horticulture-Floriculture) | — |
| 10 | Dr Hanuman Chaudhary | Scientist (Vegetable Science) | — |
| 11 | Dr. Jagan Singh Gora* | Scientist, Fruit Science | — |
| 12 | Dr. S.R Meena | Principal Scientist | — |
* Co-PI and Institute coordinator. A dash means the project document did not list an address separately for that member.
And the specific role of each
| S. No. | Organisation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ICAR-CIRB, Hisar, Haryana | Implementing institute for the project and take up livestock specific activity, data recording, disease diagnosis, therapeutic intervention registration, collaboration and implementation with other institutes for various modules. |
| 2 |
CCS HAU, Hisar – 125004
Dr Bharat Singh
|
Farmers registration, agriculture farming system data collection, diversification for horticulture crops, their management and guidance. Organizing training, mushroom production technology, field visits of farmers and field demonstrations. |
| 3 |
CATAT, ICAR-IARI, Pusa, New Delhi
Dr MS Nain
Phone: 011-25846434
|
Demonstration, training and interaction regarding agriculture related activities. Also support and guidance for quality seed supply to farmers and exposure visits for farmers and HRD. |
| 4 |
ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi
Dr Anil Kumar and Dr Sukanta Dash
|
To develop tools or methodologies for monitoring and continuous evaluation of data management, impact assessment evaluation through suitable data analysis techniques and report writing. |
| 5 |
ICAR-CIAH
Dr. Mukesh Kumar
Dr. Ramesh
Dr Hanuman Chaudhary
Dr Jagan Singh Gora
|
Horticulture crops, nutritional farm and their management, post harvest technology for surplus farm produce, training and guidance. |
| 6 | NGO / ISBD / Buffalo Society / Social enterprise | Group mobilization and consumer linkage for the farm produce. |
Expenditure under each sub-head is restricted to the sanctioned limit. No expenditure beyond the sanctioned budget is acceptable. The amount released is to be utilized by following all the codal formalities prescribed in GFR relating to financial / expenditure management.
The fund is released in PFMS code (0092) under Grant-in-aid General (Revenue) ₹75,98,328/- (Rupees Seventy-Five Lakh Ninety-Eight Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Only) vide Sanction No. General JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2022 216400000 (₹312.24 lakh) dated 13.07.2022, and Grant-in-aid Capital ₹7,15,000/- (Rupees Seven Lakh Fifteen Thousand Only) vide Sanction No. Capital JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2022 118590000 (₹196.07 lakh) dated 14.07.2022.
And the scope for horizontal spread of technologies
The authors express sincere thanks to the Director, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, for support and for providing the necessary facilities to carry out the work successfully. We are also thankful to the Head and all the scientists of the Division of Design of Experiments and the Division of Statistical Genetics for their encouragement and support. We acknowledge the technical support received from our Technical Officers during the conduct of the project.