Major projects undertaken by PROVA include:
Agricultural Projects:
Year | Partner/Donor | Project | Main outcome |
1999 | ICRISAT | Adaptation of chickpea lines to the High Barind Tract (HBT) | Lines superior to local identified |
1999-2002 | DFID/ICRISAT | Promotion of chickpea in the HBT | Dissemination of improved varieties and seed priming technology |
2002-2006 | DFID | Improvement of rainfed crop in HBT | Different rainfed crops established along with modern varieties |
2006-2010 | ACIAR | Addressing constraints of legume crops for poverty reduction | Disease tolerant varieties were identified along with management options |
2002-2012 | DFID | Client oriented rice breeding (COB) | Short duration Taman rice varieties including Nepalese varieties were identified and disseminated |
2008-2010 | BARC (ATTP) | Rice and legumes seed production, preservation, promotion through farmers participation | Seed production, preservation technology was promoted |
2012-2016 | ACIAR/IRRI | Rice-pulse project | Rice based pulse cropping pattern technology was disseminated |
2016-2018 | CCDB | Climate change project- bread of the world, Berlin, Germany | Climate change adaptation and mitigation technology was promoted |
2019-2022 | OCPF, Morocco/ICARDA/BARI | Livelihood improvement through different dry land crop cultivation, preservation, processing and training of women/men farmers and application of OCP complex fertilizer | Modern technology promotion on lentil, wheat, mungbean, blackgram, onion, garlic, chili and T.aus rice |
2024-2027 | Partner/donor: PROVA/ C Johansen(Australia) | Climate Smart village Development for the High Barind Tract of Bangladesh. | Possible adoption of Climate Smart technology. |