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Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Perambalur District  

Major Thrust Area

Maize

  • Yellowing and white bud disease
  • Poor grain formation
  • Improper nutrient management
  • Monocropping
  • Drastic fluctuation in price
  • Acute labour scarcity

 Paddy

  • Soil salinity
  • Stem borer incidence
  • Leaf folder incidence
  • BPH incidence
  • Blast incidence
  • Khaira disease and micro nutritional disorder

 Cotton

  • Bollworm complex incidence
  • Reddening of leaves
  • Sucking pests incidence
  • Imbalance nutrient application
  • Flower and square drop
  • Problem in boll bursting
  • Heavy weed menace

 Groundnut

  • Spodoptera incidence
  • Poor and illfilled pod formation
  • Collor rot incidence

 Sunflower

  • Poor seed setting
  • Yellowing in sunflower
  • Spodoptera incidence
  • Imbalance nutrient application

 Onion

  • Basal rot incidence
  • Soft rot incidence
  • Improper nutrient
  • Thrips infestation and tip drying
  • Poor quality of bulbs
  • Sprouting at storage

 Tomato

  • Imbalanced nutrition
  • Flower drop and fruit rot incidence
  • nematode incidence
  • Spotted wilt virus
  • Fruit borer
  • Fruit cracking
  • Fruit rot incidence

 Brinjal

  • Shoot and fruit borer infestation
  • Damping off

 Bitter gourd and Snake gourd

  • Flower and immature fruit drop
  • White fly incidence
  • Fruit fly infestation

 Gingelly

  • Incidence of phyllody
  • No fertilizer application
  • Very high plant population

 Chillies

  • Poor germination and damping off
  • Flower and fruit drop
  • Mite incidence
  • Poor yield due to age old variety

 Acid lime

  • Flower and fruit drop
  • Chlorosis
  • Canker incidence

 Tapioca

  • Tuber splitting
  • Whitefly infestation
  • Labour scarcity

 LabLab

  • Flower webber incidence

 Turmeric

  • Rhizome rot incidence

 Dairy

  • Low milk yield
  • Repeat breeder
  • Infertility
  • FMD outbreak
  • Mastitis
  • Delayed puberty in Heifers
  • Scarcity of green fodder

 Sheep and Goat rearing

  • Sheep pox disease
  • Poor weight gain in kids and lambs

Poultry

  • Poor in egg production and body weight

Others

    • More wasteland in delta area
  • Lack of knowledge in value addition
  • Under employment among rural
  • youth
  • Poor awareness in agriculture product  marketing
  • Lack of knowledge on nutritional status of foods
  • Poor keeping quality of fruits and vegetables.

 

 

 
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