Farms

Instructional Farm

Major crops: coconut, paddy, banana, vegetables, tubers, spices, fodder and medicinal plants.
Irrigation facilities: hi tech irrigation facilities. Efficient water management new modification to the system*

*Details of new modification for water management given in Annexure VIII

Infrastructural facilities in the Instructional Farm

Sl.No	Facility	Numbers	Area m²
1	Office building	1	450
2	Sales counter	1	110
3	Store &temporary shed at Sales counter	1	54
4	Fertilizer store	1	128
5	Farm machinery & implements store	1	306
6	Mushroom house	1	86
7	Coconut store	1	342
8	Coconut seed store	1	16
9	Coconut seed store	1	63
10	HD potting shed	1	140
11	Seed processing yard	1	110
12	Seed Store ( vegetables)	1	100
13	Pump houses	4	30 (each)
14	Value addition Centre	1	800
15	Mushroom Lab	1	500
16	Fruit fly trap preparation unit	1	60
17	Input store	1	60
18	Technician Centre	1	60
19	Labourers’ recreation hall	1	143
20	Farm machinery/ equipment
i.	Farm tractors	2
ii.	Power tillers	2
iii.	Mini tillers	2
iv.	Inter-cultivator	1
v.	Brush cutters	4
vi.	Chain saw	1
vii.	Thresher	1
viii.	Winnower	2
ix.	Walk-in-cooler for the storage of vegetable seeds (10ft x 10 ft.)	1
x.	Others Sprayers – knapsack, power, rocker, backpack Knives, spades, hoes, sickles Garden equipments & tools

Green house, glass house, poly house structures in Instructional farm

Department

Type of facility

Area(sq.m)

Instructional

Farm

288 90

240

108

300

1000

320

Revenue generation and other details regarding Instructional farm

Revenue generation in Instructional Farm

Seeds and planting material production

Organic inputs

Veggie wash

Secondary micronutrient mixtures

Value added products of banana, coconut and cassava (Value addition Centre)

Ponds

The farm ponds in the college campus are suited for fish rearing
The two ponds in Block C, each of 40m x 20m are stocked with fish (rohu, mrigal and catla) in rotation.
Ambal or water lillyin 20m x 20m pond adds to the aesthetic value of the campus.
In addition, eight ponds each of 10m x 5m and 1-2 m depth are available for fish rearing.

Model Organic Farming units

Under the RKVY Project ‘Establishment of the Lead Centre for Organic Farming of Kerala Agricultural University at Vellayani’
Two primarily certified model organic farms

Model Organic Farm Location	Area (in ha)
Dept of Soil Science & Agrl.Chemistry	1.5
Dept. of Agronomy	1

Integrated Farming System model
- - - - A teaching cum demonstration model of Integrated Farming System (IFS) unit is maintained in an area of 5000m².
      - The major components are crops (banana, vegetables), duck and fish.
      - It is unique in that there is a natural cleaning and aeration mechanism from the nearby spring (water channel).
      - It was established and maintained by the Department of Agronomy and managed by the Instructional Farm from 2018 onwards.
Livestock farm and Poultry unit

Functioning under:	Department of Animal Husbandry
Purpose:	To impart training to B.Sc. (Hons.) Ag and Diploma students.
Poultry	180 m²
Livestock farms	216 m²
Dairy farm	mainly cross bred variety dairy breeds of: Holstein Friesian Sunandhini Jersey The smallest notified breed Vechur
Goat and Sheep farm	Malabari Jamunapari
Poultry unit	Gramasree Naked neck breeds Karthika

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