National Focal Point

Name of the Stakeholders

• To evolve/identify high yielding varieties for different agro-climatic zones of West Bengal/Eastern India under both favourable as well as under stress (both aboitic and biotic) situations
• To evolve varieties with higher protein quality in pulse crop and higher oil along with better fatty acid composition in oilseeds.
• Exploration, collection, evaluation and Ex-situ conservation of germplasm  (local cultivars, land races and wild types) of both pulses and oilseeds in short term as well as field gene bank.
• To formulate optimum agronomic packages for maximization of yield under different Agro-situations of the State
• To identify commonly occurring damaging pest and diseases and eco friendly insect, fungus, bacteria and virus to formulate their judicious control measures.
• To organize on farm demonstration trials in farmers’ plot for quick dissemination of up to date technology.
• Collection and identification of improved strains of different kinds of beneficial microbial organism and their mass production for dissemination to farmer’s field.
•  To improve yield of both Pulses and Oilseeds utilizing effective strains of biofertilizer
• Promotion of sustainable development of underutilized pulse and oilseed crops
• To disseminate the technology through monthly colloquium and training meeting to train up the extension personnel to cater to the needs of the farmers in one hand and to receive field problem to formulate Research programmes for solution on the other and to exploit the mass media for dissemination of our findings to the farmers.
• Production and distribution of quality  seeds of different categories of improved cultivars to the different seed agencies and farmers.

• Maintenance of active collection of wild relatives of crop plants
• Evaluation of wild germplasm of wheat, rice and pulses for biotic stresses, abiotic stresses, quality and productivity traits for the identification of potential donors
• Diversity analysis of the wild germplasm of wheat and rice using molecular marker
• Utilization of the wild species for introgression of useful variability into cultivated germplasm using various chromosome manipulation techniques
• Molecular mapping of the introgressed alien genes/QTLs

• The germplasm collected and maintained would be utilized to induce genetic variability, exploitation of desirable traits and development of superior genotypes through intensive breeding program.