September 24, 2022

Agricultural Projects

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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.