The BGREI Programme made certain innovative beginnings for the first time in the history of technology transfer for crop production in India. These included the provision of "cluster approach" for organizing "Block Demonstrations. Another landmark comprised provision of cash doles to the beneficiary farmers to support the instant expenditure towards land preparation & deep ploughing and direct seeding/transplanting in lines in rice and line sowing in wheat as a component of the Block demonstrations of these crops. Deep ploughing and direct seeding/transplanting in rain-fed...

Strengthening and modernization of pest management approach has fairly succeeded in India. The existing pest management approach has a predisposition in favour of chemical pesticides. Several activities are created to promote integrated pest management but the other government organizations promote chemical pesticides. The number of chemical pesticide registered every year by government is increasing very fast and the facilities for their testing are getting deteriorated with waning manpower for quality control. The progress of setting up a National Pesticide Reference Repository and a...