The objective of On Farm Testing (OFT) is to test and evaluate the research findings of Research Stations at the farmer’s field and to refine and modify the technologies, if required for better adoption by farmers. It is confirmation of already proven research results under real farming situation. The KVK has been instrumented in brining up number of solutions to the problems related to farmers of Thiruchirapally District. Integrated Pest and disease management field crops, and horticulture crops and encouraging farm mechanization to minimize the production cost have been the important successful OFTs of KVK.
Trial undertaken during 2025-26
- Assessing the performance of Fermented Organic manure in Paddy –New
- Assessment of Suitable Rice variety for Salt affected Soils of Trichy District
- Assessment of high yielding rice varieties ADT 59 and MTU1293 in Trichy District
- Assessment of nodule associated plant probiotics in blackgram for drought mitigation –II year
- Assessment of TNAU Bio Meemix to enhance the productivity of black gram-II year
- Assessment of high yielding Black gram Varieties VBN 12 and LBG 884 suitable for rice fallow condition in Trichy District
- Assessment of Pod Borers Management Technologies in Blackgram
- Assessment of Mungbean Yellow Mosaic Virus resistant Blackgram variety suitable for Trichy
- Assessment of suitable Groundnut variety for Trichy District .
- Assessment of Cotton varieties suitable for high yield in Trichy dt
- Assessment of INM in banana for Trichy District
- Assessment of microbial consortia for the management of soil borne diseases in Small Onion
- Assessment of microbial consortia for management soil borne diseases in chilli
- Assessment of new high yielding Chilli Hybrid Chilli CO 5 and Arka Sanvifor Tiruchirapalli district
- Assessing the performance of Cassava varieties Sree Kaveri and Yethapur 2 with ICM practices