IMPACT OF NICRA PROJECT THROUGH ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT SUCCESS POINT

SUJAN BISWAS¹, GANESH DAS²*, F.H. RAHMAN³, SURAJIT SARKAR⁴, SURAJ SARKAR⁵, SANKAR SAHA⁶, SUSHEN KUMAR DAS⁷, AUGUSTINA SAHA⁸, BIKASH ROY^9
1Subject Matter Specialist, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
²Subject Matter Specialist, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
³Principal Scientist-cum-NICRA Nodal Officer, ICAR- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
⁴Subject Matter Specialist, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
⁵Subject Matter Specialist, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
⁶Subject Matter Specialist, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
⁷Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
⁸SRF, NICRA Project, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
⁹Head and Principle Investigator of NICRA Project, Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, 736165, West Bengal, India
* Corresponding Author : ganesh.ext@gmail.com

Received : 14-04-2018     Accepted : 27-04-2018     Published : 30-04-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 8       Pages : 5863 - 5866
Int J Agr Sci 10.8 (2018):5863-5866

Keywords : NICRA, Success point, KVK, Flood, Innovative, Progressive, Impact
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Indian Council of Agricultural Research- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Author thankful to funding authority National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, India
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

Cooch Behar KVK got NICRA (National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture) project during 2010-11. Khagribari village under Cooch Behar-2 Block selected purposively (KVK Adopted Village) for implementation of the NICRA project. Several activities were done during 2010-11 to 2016-17. Majority of the farmers of Khagrabari village were marginal farmer. Flood, irrigation, water conservation, diseases infestation on plant and occupational migration were the major problem of the village. Some innovative and progressive farmers were developed and exposed their activity through different programme. In our study we discuss about the few success point of NICRA project in Cooch Behar District. The objective of the study was to shown the impact of NICRA project in Cooch Behar District through analysis of different success point.

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