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Farms

Instructional Farm

  • Area distribution (in hectare)

Garden land

78.234

Vellayani Lake

173.50

TOTAL

251.734

 

  • 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

  • Green houses with automatic micro irrigation
  • Hardening chamber for tissue culture plants
  • Poly houses / Shade houses  
  • Mist chambers       
  • Shade house (renovated)  
  • Rain shelter
  • Naturally ventilated poly house  

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

 

  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.
  2. 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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