Partly/fully financed by the ICAR - On going (Continuous projects)
| Sl.No. | Project title | Name of the experiment | Duration | Name and designation of the scientist in charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | All India Coordinated Rice Improvement Project (AICRIP) | Evaluation of coordinated trials-20 trials | Since 1969 | Dr.D.Sassikumar, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G)
Dr.R.Suresh, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) |
| 2. | AICRIP | Evolution of cultures for CVRC | Since 1969 | Dr.S.Elamathi, Asst. Prof. (Agronomy) |
| Nutrient response trials on selected AVT-2 rice cultures under high and low input management. AVT 2-IME- Timely planting, Late planting | ||||
| Development of package of practices for mechanized transplanting in rice | ||||
| Refining package of practices for Wet- DSR methods | ||||
| Long term studies on weed diversity in mechanical transplanting, Wet-DSR and Dry-DSR | ||||
| Technology to enhance the productivity of cultivars suitable for late planting situation | ||||
| 3. | AICRIP | Evaluation of rice entries against sheath blight, sheath rot and bacterial leaf blight diseases | Since 1969 | Dr. A. Ramanathan, Prof. (Pl. Pathology) |
| Management of location specific diseases | ||||
| 4. | AICRIP | Plant Hopper Screening Trial | Since 1969 | Dr. P. Anandhi,Asst. Prof. (Entomology.) |
| Plant Hopper Special Screening Trial | ||||
| Leaf Folder Screening Trial | ||||
| Stem Borer Screening Trial | ||||
| Multiple Resistance Screening Trial | ||||
| Insecticide Botanicals Evaluation Trials | ||||
| Effect of Planting Dates on Pest incidence | ||||
| Ecological Engineering for Planthoppers Management | ||||
| Yield Loss Estimation Trial | ||||
| Integrated Pest Management Special Trial | ||||
| Influence of Establishment Methods on Pest incidence | ||||
| Light Trap Collections | ||||
| Pest Survey Reports | ||||
| FLD on Validation of integrated pest and disease management strategies for ADT 51 rice variety | ||||
| 5. | All India Network Project (AINP) on Jute and Allied Fibres | Nutrient management for mesta based cropping system | Since 1986 | Dr. M. Raju, Assoc. Prof. (Agronomy) |
| Integrated weed management in jute and mesta | ||||
| Survey of weed incidence and its diversity in the different jute/mesta growing regions | ||||
| Carbon and sulphur dynamics and hydro-physical characterization of soils in jute and mesta growing areas | ||||
| Performance of new roselle genotypes under different fertilizer management schedule | ||||
| Comparative evaluation of mesta based cropping systems for higher productivity and profitability | ||||
| 6. | AINP on Jute and Allied Fibres | Evaluation of mesta and sunnhemp segregating progenies and promising entries for fiber yield. | Since 1986 | Dr. R. Pushpa, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) |
| Evaluation of special traits of calyx and yield in roselle | ||||
| 7. | All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP ) on MULLaRP |
Evaluation of Summer irrigated and Rice-fallow blackgram and greengram trials | Since 2015 | Dr.R.Manimaran, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G) |
| Evolution of black gram and greengram cultures for Rice-fallow condition | ||||
| 8. | AICRP on MULLaRP | Fertility and weed management in Summer blackgram | Since 2015 | Dr. C. Umamageswari, Assoc. Prof. (Agron) |
| Performance of Summer blackgram AVT- 2 genotypes under varied plant population for higher productivity | ||||
| Efficacy of post emergence herbicides to manage weeds for higher productivity of Summer blackgram | ||||
| Effect of foliar nutrition on productivity of Summer blackgram | ||||
| Land configuration and foliar spray of nutrients for yield maximization of greengram | ||||
| Fertilizer dose, organic manure and biofertilizer for yield maximization of greengram and their effect on succeeding Rabi cereal/ oilseed crop | ||||
| Conservation technology and weed management for Rice-fallow blackgram | ||||
| 9. | AICRP on MULLaRP | Evaluation of black gram (IVT, AVT 1 and AVT 2) entries against major diseases under summer irrigated, kharif and rice-fallow conditions | Since 2018 | Dr.R.Thilagavathi, Asst. Prof. (Pl. Pathology) |
| Evaluation of green gram (IVT, AVT 1 and AVT 2) entries against major diseases under summer irrigated, kharif and rice-fallow conditions | ||||
| Evaluation of fungicides for management of fungal foliar diseases of urdbean and mungbean
Under rice fallow and summer irrigated conditions |
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| 10. | Consortia Research Platform (CRP) of ICAR | Bio-fortification in selected crops for nutritional security – low phytate maize” (TNAU Coimbatore centre) | 2020-2025 | Dr. A. John Joel
CoPI: Dr. R. Ravi Kesavan |
Externally funded projects other than ICAR - Ongoing
| Sl.No. | Source of fund | Project title | Period | Name (s) of the PI/CO PI with designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | World Bank
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TN-IAM Project for Cauvery delta zone (Nagapattinam) -Phase I | 2017- 2023 | Dr. V.Ambethgar, Director,
Co-PI Dr. M. Raju, Assoc. Prof. (Agronomy) |
| 2. | TN-IAM Project – Lower Coleroon sub basin – Phase II | 2019-2023 | Dr. V.Ambethgar, Director,
Co-PI Dr. S. Elamathi, Asst. Prof. (Agronomy) |
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| 3. | TN-IAM Project for Marudaiyaru sub basin of Trichy region – Phase III | 2020-2023 | Dr. V.Ambethgar, Director,
Co-PI Dr.R.Thilagavathi, Asst. Prof. (Pl. Pathology) |
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| 4. | GOI Earth Sciences | Agro-Met Advisory Services, Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa | Continuous projects | Dr.K.Sathiya Bama Assoc. Prof. (SS&AC) |
| 5. | IMD-FASAL for Cauvery Delta Zone at TRRI,Aduthurai | |||
| 6. | GSH, Chiba University, JAPAN | Measuring methane gas emission from paddy fields and mitigation – Phase II | 2018- 2021
|
Dr. V.Ambethgar, Director,
Co-PI Dr. M. Raju, Assoc. Prof. (Agronomy) Dr. C. Umamageswari, Assoc. Prof. (Agron) Dr. K. SathiyaBama, Assoc.Prof. (SS&AC) |
| 7. | NABARD | Characterisation, purification and export avenue creation for the therapeutic native land rice kavuni to the Tamil Nadu farmers” | 2018-2021 | Dr.D.Sassikumar, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G)
Co-PI Dr.R.Manimaran, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G) |
| 8. | DST, SERB, New Delhi |
Marker Assisted Pyramiding of Drought Yield QTLs into ADT 45, a popular rice cultivar of Tamil Nadu | 2018-2021 | Dr. R. Suresh, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) |
| 9. | IRRI-ICAR | Advance breeding technologies to speed up genetic gain, create durable resistance to biotic stresses and increase Indian farmers and consumers food and nutritional security | 2019-2020 | Dr.D.Sassikumar, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G)
Co-PI Dr. R. Suresh, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) |
| 10. | GOI, DBT | “Mainstreaming rice landraces diversity in varietal development through genome-wide association studies: A model large-scale utilization of gene bank collections of rice” | 2020-2025 | Dr. A. John Joel, Professor (PB&G)
CoPI: M. Raveendran Dr.D. Sassikumar, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G) Dr.R. Suresh, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) Dr. R. Pushpam Assoc. Prof. (PB&G) Dr. K. Krishna Srendar Dr. S. Muthramu |
| 11. | BASF India Ltd., Dharward Karnataka | Evaluation of bioefficacy and phytotoxicity of BAS 750 02F 400g / L SC against sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) and dirty panicle disease in rice. | 2019-2020 | Dr. A. Ramanathan, Prof. (Pl. Pathology) |
EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS (2015 to 2019) – COMPLETED
| Sl.No. | Source of fund | Project title | Period | Name (s) of the PI/CO PI with designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | SERB, New Delhi | Bio-consortia of PGPRs from different growth stages of peanut (Arachis hypogaea) for the management of stem rot caused by Sclerotium rolfsii | 2015 to 2018 | Dr. R. Thilagavathi, Asst. Prof. (Pl. Pathology), |
| 2. | SERB, New Delhi | Physiological evaluation of rice genotypes for multiple stress tolerance | 2016- 2019 | Dr.K.Vanitha, Asst. Prof.(SS&AC)
Co-PI Dr.P.Boominathan |
| 3. | GOI-NADP | Farmers’s Participatory demonstration of MGR 100 Rice in Tamil Nadu. | 2016-2020 | Dr. M. Raju, Assoc. Prof. (Agronomy)
Dr. N. Punithvathi, Assoc. Prof (SS&T) |
| 4. | GSH, Chiba University, Japan | Measuring methane gas emission from paddy fields and mitigation – Phase I | 2017- 2018 | Dr. V. Ambethgar, Director
Co-PI Dr.C.Umamageswari Assoc. Prof. (Agronomy) |
| 5. | TANII,Govt. of TN | Establishment of Infrastructure to develop nutritionally enhanced premium quality and stress resilient rice varieties for Tamil Nadu.
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2017-2019 | Dr.D.Sassikumar, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G)
Dr.R.Manimaran, Assoc. Prof. (PB&G) Dr. R. Suresh, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) Dr.R.Pushpa, Asst. Prof. (PB&G) |
| 6. | Rallis India Ltd,
Bangalore |
Evaluation of Rallis fungicide pre-mixture, Taqat (Captan 70% + Hexaconazole 5% WP) against sheath rot, stem rot and sheath blight diseases and its phytotoxicity on rice | 2016-2019 | R. Thilagavathi, Asst. Prof. (Pl. Pathology) |