1.      Letter no and date of sanction : DDG (AE), ICAR NEW DELHI  F. No. 13-1/2003-AE-I. July, 29, 2005

          2.      Month and Year of Inception  : October - 2005

(1)    On-farm testing to assess the location specificity of agricultural technologies under various farming systems.

(2)    Frontline demonstrations to establish production potential of technologies on the farmers’ fields.

(3)    Capacity development of farmers and extension personnel to update their knowledge and skills on modern agricultural technologies.

(4)    To work as Knowledge and Resource Centre of agricultural technologies for supporting initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector in improving the agricultural economy of the district.

(5)    Provide farm advisories using ICT and other media means on varied subjects of interest to farmers

       In addition, KVKs produce quality technological products (seed, planting material, bio-agents and livestock) and make it available to farmers, organize frontline extension activities, identify and document selected farm innovations and converge with ongoing schemes and programs within the mandate of KVK.

     The district Surendranagar mainly falls in north Saurashtra agro-climatic zone. The district located in India at 22.0° to 23.45° North latitude and 69.45° to 72.15° East longitude. Surendranagar district is bounded in north by Gulf of Kutch and Mehasana district, in the south by Bhavnagar and part of Ahmedabad district, on the east by part of Ahmedabad and west by Rajkot district. The average annual rainfall is 400 mm. The average temperature of the district ranges with 41°C maximum to 11°C minimum.  The soil is mostly medium black, shallow to moderately deep and calcareous in nature, therefore cotton is the major crop of the district. Some patches of saline soil found in Dasada and Lakhtar talukas, calcareous sandy soil found in some part of Chotila, Sayla & Dhrangadhra taluka and loamy soil is found in some part of Dhrangadhra taluka. The pH of the soil is alkaline and underground water is non saline in nature.

     The district covers 10.48 lakh ha geographical area out of which 6.90 lakh ha under cultivation, of which only 0.62 lakh ha is irrigated. Major area comes under rainfed farming. The main sources of irrigationare wells, tube wells, ponds and canals. The major crops of this region are cotton, groundnut, castor, sesame &pearl millet and others are sorghum, wheat, chick pea, groundnut, mustard, cumin, green gram, black gram, onion, garlic and vegetables. The fruit orchard area is very less.

Total Geographical area	:	1048900 ha
Total cultivable area	:	690000 ha
Net cultivated area	:	685284 ha
Area sown more than one	:	42933 ha
Total area under forest	:	49353 ha
Total irrigated area	:	61879 ha
Area under non-agricultural use	:	53639 ha
Barren & uncultivated land	:	128029 ha
Permanent pasture	:	46036 ha
Current fallows	:	16652 ha
Waste land	:	63232 ha
Total number of Holdings	:	172769
a)  SC	:	11353
b)  ST	:	1054
c)  Others	:	160362
Soil Type
1. Medium black, shallow to moderate deep & calcareous in nature		Overall Surendranagar district
2.     Mediumblack		Wadhwan and Muli
3.     Saline & Alkaline soils		Dasada and Lakhtar
4.     Shallowcalcareous sandy soil		Dhrangadhra
5.     Red Loamy soil		Dhrangadhra
6.     Low land soils		Limbdi and Lakhtar
7.     Calcareous Sandy soil		Chotila, Thangadh and Sayla
Total number of villages	:	651
Number of Talukas	:	Muli, Dhrangadhra, Dasada, Limbdi, Chotila, Thangadh, Sayla, ChudaLakhtar, Wadhwan (10-Taluka)
Major crops grown
1) Cereals	:	Wheat, Sorghum, Bajara
2) Pulses	:	Green gram, Black gram and Gram
3) Oil seeds	:	Sesame, Groundnut and Castor
4) Others	:	Cotton, Cumin, Onion, Garlic and Vegetables.
Live Stock  (Total)	:	9,26,696
1) Bullocks & Cows	:	3,02,346
2) Goats	:	1,91,814
3) Buffaloes	:	2,73,686
4) Horses & Camel	:	2,079
5) Sheeps	:	1,32,356
6) Others	:	24,415

Sr. No.	Crop	Surendranagar			Gujarat
		Area (ha)	Production (MT)	Yield (kg/ha)	Yield (kg/ha)
1	Bajara	4803	6957	1449	1534
2	Green gram	1338	551	412	412
3	Groundnut	59410	140264	2361	1899
4	Castor	64889	100635	1551	2060
5	Sesame	32109	3007	94	186
6	Cotton (Irrigated)	246521	812072	560	609
7	Cotton (Unirrigated)	83661	140976	286	349
8	Wheat  (Irrigated)	55671	169090	3037	3271
9	Gram	47291	65115	1377	1762
10	Cumin	75356	55128	732	843
11	Funnel	19440	37074	1907	1800

Note: Cotton yield is in lint

Sr. No.	Item	Area (ha)
1.	Under Buildings	3.56
2.	Under Demonstration Units	1.04
A	Crop cafeteria	0.10
B	Fodder Unit	0.02
C	Nursery Unit	0.03
D	IFS Model	0.60
E	Compost Pit	-
F	Vermicompost Unit	-
I	NADEP Unit	-
J	Automatic Weather Station	0.18
K	Medicinal  & Aromatic Plants Unit	0.11
3.	Under Crops	16.84
4.	Horticulture Crops	2.97
A	Mix Fruit Crops  (sapota + mango + gunda) Orchard	0.90
B	Jamun Orchard	0.45
C	Tamarind Orchard	1.00
D	Date Palm Orchard	0.50
E	Guava Orchard	0.12
5.	Under Road	1.70
6.	Farm Pond	0.24
Total		26.35

Crop/Enterprise	Thrust area
Cotton	1. Increase productivity of the crops by adopting recommended practices of integrated pest management (Pink boll worm in Bt-cotton (IPM) and INM in cotton 2.  Recycling of the cotton stalk by cotton shredder
Groundnut, Sesame Castor and Wheat	Increase productivity of the crops by adopting recommended dry farming technologies, newly released varieties and INM in sesame
Cumin	Integrated Diseases Management and IPM
Chickpea	Increase productivity of the crops by newly released varieties and storage grain for seed purpose to farmers for next year.
Horticulture (Pomegranate, Lemon, Guava and chilly	Value addition in fruits and vegetables, INM, training and pruning orchard and promote the farmers to adopting arid horticulture crops
Agriculture	Providing information and create interest to young generation for agriculture as a profession.
Farm waste	Recycling of the warm waste through composting, Vermi-composting and green manuring.
Micro Irrigation	Effective use of water by micro irrigation system, water harvesting structure and water harvesting techniques.
Animal Science	Increase productivity of the milk by adopting scientific feeding and breeding technologies and to create awareness about clean milk production.
Post Harvesting Technology (PHT)	Create awareness for proper storage and reduce post harvest losses.

Training Programmes:-

Thematic Area	No. of Courses	Male		Female		Total
		Open	SC-ST	Open	SC-ST
On Campus Training	44	807	141	122	43	1113
Off Campus Training	45	698	162	245	52	1157
Collaborative Training	06	324	87	65	21	497
Sponsored Training	31	679	79	622	59	1439
RAWE Student Training	05	32	12	25	08	77
District Student Training	03	95	18	57	12	182
Grand Total	134	2635	499	1136	195	4465
		3134		1331

01 - Training Programme conducted by KVK Nana-Kandhasar

02 - Celebration of Special Day or Important Day conducted by KVK Nana-Kandhasar.

03 - Other Events and Demonstration conducted by KVK Nana-Kandhasar

04 - Field Visit and Field Day conducted by KVK Nana-Kandhasar

05 - Folder and Calander Published by KVK Nana Kandhasar

06 - Popular Article published by KVK Nana Kandhasar and Award achivied by KVK Head

07 - Press Note of KVK Nana Kandhasar