PROJECT REPORT

ON
RURAL AGRICULTURAL WORK EXPERIENCE (RAWE)
SUMITTED TO
SRI DEV SUMAN UTTARKHAND UNIVERSITY,
BADSHAHITHAUL
TEHRI GARHWAL UTTARKHAND

In partial fulfilment for the degree of

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURE
(2020-2024)
SUBMITTED BY
BHUMIKA SHARMA
B.SC AGRICULTURE (7TH SEM)
ENROLLMENT NO:- SV20001112
ROLL NO:- 226209140015

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

DR. Setu Chakrabarty (Asst. Professor)
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND ALLIED SCIENCES
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This report would not have been possible without the assistance and participation of various
individuals.
First, I would like to extend my gratitude to DOON BUSINESS SCHOOL to provide me all the
facilities and guidance during the RAWE and AIA training programme which help me to
expand my personal as well as professional skill.
I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to respected principal sir, DR.I.J. GULATI and our
RAWE and AIA course coordinator and mentor Ms. POOJA KAINTURA and DR. SETU.
CHAKRABORTY respectively for their constant guidance, support, encouragement
throughout the training period.
I’m sincerely obliged to DR.B.K. CHAUDHARY, head of CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND EXTENSION, SAHASPUR for his constant support,
guidance, monitoring, encouragement throughout the completion of RAWE Training
Programme .
I am also obliged to the village people without them my RAWE and AIA programme would
not have completed.
Lastly, I would like to thank to my parent, friends, for their constant encouragement and
support throughout this period.
 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY
I, Bhumika Sharma, hereby declare that I have completed my RAWE and AIA training in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of B.SC(Hons.) Agriculture.
I have done my training at CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, RESEARCH
EDUCATION AND EXTENSION From 18.9.23 to 4.11.23
I hereby declare that report entitled “RURAL AGRICULTURE WORK EXPERIENCE AND AGRO-
INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT” is written and submitted by me to the department of
Agriculture, Doon Business School, Dehradun in partial fulfilments of the requirements for
the award of degree of Bachelors of science in agriculture under the guidance of professor
DR.SETU.CHAKRABORTY .
This is my original work and the conclusion drawn herein are based on the data and
information collected by myself.

BHUMIKA SHARMA
B.SC (HONS.) AGRICULTURE ,7TH SEMESTER
DOON BUSINESS SCHOOL, DEHRADUN
 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report mainly focuses on the two main Ready components i.e.

COMPONENT – I: - RURAL AGRICULTURAL WORK EXPERIENCE (RAWE)

. It comprises of different interventions that are follows: -
1. Survey of village: – It includes visiting a nearby village and collected general
information about the village followed by surveying the farmer and collected
information as per RAWE manual (Such as name of farmer, family member,
irrigation facilities, cropping pattern, fertilizer application for insects and
diseases and implements and machineries available in the village, etc.)

2. Agronomical Interventions: - It exposed various agronomical activities in the

field and also involve in various production technology of various crops.

3. Plant Protection Interventions: - Exposure to various plant diseases,

insect/pests of the farmer field and suggested remedial measures.

4. Soil Improvement Interventions: - Exposure to various activities i. e. Soil

sampling, soil testing, and usage of soil health card for the evaluation of
nutrient availability on the chosen farmer field and recommendations given
to the farmer to for improving soil health and control nutrient losses.

5. Fruit and Vegetable Production Interventions: - Involvement in different field

operation viz., seedbed preparation, nursery management, etc and collected
data from the host farmer about his fruit/vegetable production.

6. Food Processing and Storage interventions :- Studying and collection of

information i.e. method of food processing and preservation, importance of
processing of fruits and vegetables, spices, condiments, and flowers,
packaging of horticulture , commodities, common method of storage, post
management and equipment for spices and flowers, quality control in fruit
and vegetable processing industry, storage structure and method of grain
storage , Traditional and modern storage structure ,indigenous technological
knowledge used for food storage.

7. Animal Production Interventions: - Collection of data of livestock on various

aspects i.e. daily maintenance and expenses, milk production, milk disposal,
dairy products, egg, birds, pig, etc.

8. Extension and Transfer of technology activities

COMPONENT – II: - AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT(AIA)

It comprises a detailed information about “Abhinav Dairy Farm “Industry has been included
along with the explanation of different types of milk processing machines, different types of
milk, its composition and its benefits and live demonstration of the process of making
different dairy product, etc.

1. Automated milk analysis (fat, SNF, density, added water, protein) and packaging of
raw milk for local distribution.

2. Procedure of making Butter and ghee and packaging of these products.

3. Curd inoculation, its procedure, packaging and storage of curd.

4. Curd, ghee, butter, making procedures, processing, storage, packaging for market
place and different type of milking machines, etc.

. At last, detail about Plant Clinic have also been included in the report.
 INDEX

S.NO CONTENT PAGE NO.

COMPONENT 1: - (RAWE)
1. RURAL AGRICULTURE WORK
EXPERIENCE
INTRODUCTION
2. 
 VILLAGE SURVEY
 AGRONOMICAL INTERVENTION
 PLANT PROTECTION
INTERVENTIONS
 SOIL IMPROVEMENT
INTERVENTIONS
 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE
PRODUCTION INTERVENTION
 FOOD PROCESSING AND
STORAGE INTERVENTION
 ANIMAL PRODUCTION
INTERVENTION
 EXTENSION AND TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITIES
COMOINENT 2: - (AIA)
3. AGR0-INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT
 INTRODUCTION
 THEORY
 VISIT TO ABHINAV DAIRY
FARM
CONCLUSION
4.
APPENDIX
5. Weekly Progress Reports
 COMPONENT 1
RURAL AGRICULTURAL WORK EXPERIENCE (RAWE)

INTRODUCTION TO RAWE PROGRAMME

The Rural Agriculture Work Experience (RAWE) is a compulsory course offered to the
students of 7th semester enrolled in Agriculture programme. In India, Randhawa Committee
(1992) recommended the Rural Work Experience (RAWE) programme for imparting quality,
practical and production-oriented education for agriculture degree programme.
The ‘RAWE’ word stand for Rural Agriculture Work Experience, it is basically awareness to
Agriculture graduates about the actual situation and status of the farmers and farming
practices.
RAWE helps the students primarily to understand the rural situations, status of agricultural
technologies adopted by the farmer, prioritize the farmers problem and to develop skills and
attitude of working with farm families for overall development in rural area. The timings for
RAWE can be flexible for specific region to coincide with the main cropping season.
Agriculture education needs to be evolved in a very rapid manner to meet the expectation of
the society. Though the students of agriculture are learning substantial basic and applied
issues of science and technology, they do not possess adequate confidence in starting own
commercial venture.
Agriculture Work Experience (RAWE) is an important competence and confidence building
Programme introduced in Agriculture universities in India.

PRINCIPLES OF RAWE PROGRAMME: -

1. Approaching farmers on the fields itself.
2. Live with them
3. Learn from them
4. Motivate them
5. Learning by doing
6. Perform fields activities to gain hands-on experience
7. Suggest some idea to farmer for increasing yield
THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF RAWE
 To provide opportunity to the students to understand the rural situation in relation to
agriculture and allied activities.
 To get the students familiar with socio-economic conditions of the farmers and their
problems with reference to agricultural development.
 To impact diagnostic and remedial knowledge to the students relevant to real field
situations through practical training.
 To develop communication skills in students using extension teaching method in
transfer technology.
 To develop confidence and competence to solve agricultural problems.
 To help students to acquaint with on-going extension and rural development
programmes.
 To explore the high-tech agriculture technology and the factors affecting the
adoption of modern method of agriculture.
 CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, RESEARCH,
EDUCATION AND EXTENSION

The Centre for Agriculture, Research, Education and Extension is a certified institution
providing training to RAWE students in Sahaspur, Dehradun. It is located a mere 10 Km from
Doon Business School.

The centre for agriculture research, education and extension are to provide a key facilitating
role in the refinement of technologies to specific conditions, by acting as a two-way link
between research and farmers.

CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, RESEARCH EDUCATION AND EXTENSION

Training Knowledge
programs Technology
and Resource
for RAWE Adaptation
Centre
students

Empowerment of farmers

(Learning, application of
technologies and
livelihoods Of Farmers)
To achieve this mandate effectively, each Centre for sustainable agriculture, research
education and extension is expected to perform following activities:
1. On-farm testing to identify the location specificity of agricultural technologies under
various farming system.
2. Conversion of subsistence to sustainable farming.
3. Promotion of agricultural research
4. Produce and make available products like seasonal fruits and vegetable.
5. Also running of “Abhinav Dairy” which use the produce from it’s own farm to produce
various dairy products such as milk, cheese, curd, ghee.
6. Provide free training for farmers and extension them personnel to update their
knowledge and skills in modern agricultural technologies.
7. Work as resource and knowledge centre for agricultural technologies for supporting
initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector for improving the agricultural
economy of the district.
8. Also organize extension activities to create awareness about improved agricultural
technologies.
9. Organizing activities and training programs for RAWE students.
10. Organizing other training program related to agriculture, dairy farming, poultry
farming, fishery farming, and goat, etc.
ACTIVITIES DURING RAWE TRAINING AT CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EXTENSION AT, SAHASPUR

REPORTING AND JOINING AT CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH,

EDUCATION ANND EXTENSION SAHASPUR
ON
18 SEPTEMBER, 2023

LOCATION: - Abhinav Farm Campus, village- Dhaki, Block – ahaspur

Area of farm: -
 ORIENTATION

The orientation program was conducted by the institution head DR.B.K. Chaudhary on 18th
September, 2023.
Sir briefed us on the details of RAWE program, how it progress, the approach he used to
educate trainees during training period, followed by a general discussion on students and
agriculture current scenario across in India.
ON 19th September 2023 Explanation of village survey and the methodologies of survey
conduction. Elaboration about every parameter of RAWE manual.
Also briefly explanation on socio - economic survey, ways of data collection, importance and
method of data collection and survey explanation the format of socio-economic survey .
Discussion the tools and learning about the common language used to have conversion with
the farmers to establish the report. Further discussion on RAWE manual.
 RAWE COMPONENT: - 1
1.VILLAGE SURVEY
DATE: - 24 SEPTEMBER 2023
Visit to Goodrich village for village and household survey which is conducted by self under
the instructions of DR.B.K. CHAUDHARY
Where we divided into four group for survey and collected information from farmer as per
questionnaire i.e. (name of farmer, family member, education qualification, category, land,
land revenues, etc).
Inquiring at least 10 farmer families about various farm parameter and practices mentioned
in the manual and advising farmer on new technologies advancements in agriculture, visiting
their field, and collecting sample for herbarium.
DATE: - 25 September 2023
Discussion and evaluation of previously collected data of village survey.
Then at afternoon 2:00 PM again visit to village for surveyed to gather more information
from farmer i.e. (machinery which are used in the farm field, irrigation facilities, disease and
pests that mainly occur in crop).
Then after the collection of village data we evaluate and organized the collected data in a
systematic form.
2. AGRONOMICAL INTERVENTION
DATE: - 22 SEPTEMBER 2023
A.) SOWING OF PEA
Thoroughly prepared seed bed required for pea cultivation. To obtain fine seed bed for pea,
one to two ploughing is done by tractor followed by 2-3 harrowing and planking after
ploughing operation then level the field using leveller.
Then mixing of compost in the prepared field and NPK application is given to prepared field
followed by pea sowing.
Broadcasting method are used for pea sowing, then after sowing level the 1 acre of land by
using leveller
These are done under the incharge.
Before sowing of seed, seed are pre-treated with thiram (fungicide).
Details of seed material:
VARITY: SUPER-07
NET WEIGHT: 5 Kg
GERMINATION PERCENTAGE: 75%
SEED GENETIC PURITY: 95%
PHYSICAL PURITY: 97%
 B.) AZOLLA CULTIVATION
AZOLLA – Azolla is a free floating aquatic fern and naturally available mostly on moist soils,
ditches marshy ponds and is widely distributed in tropical belts of India. Azolla grow in fresh
water and belongs to family salviniaceae.
Azolla is used as a biofertilizer because it possesses a symbiotic association with nitrogen
fixing cyanobacteria.
METOD OF AZOLLA CULTIVATION: -

2. inspection of insect pest in bean fields

3. field bed preparation of allotted plot
4. removing of weed
5. vermicompost method
 3. SOIL IMPROVEMENT INTERVANTION
DATE: - 5/10/23
Discussion about soil sampling.
Date- 9/10/23
We went to the village for collection of soil sample from the farmer field.
By using zig-zag method soil sample collected from5 different spots to gets 2 composites of
soil sample as per the format given in RAWE manual.
 PLANT DISEASE CLINIC

1. Name of the Student: Bhumika Sharma

2. Name of Host farmer: -Sunnet Chauhan
3. RAWE Centre: - Sustainable Agriculture Research Education and Extension
4. Name of the Village: - Jamni Pur (Goodrich)
5. Taluka Place of Village: - Vikasnagar
6. District Place of Village: - Dehradun

1. Name of the crop Paddy

2. Fungal/Bacterial/Viral
Diseases
3. Symptoms
4. Place of collection
5. Date of collection
6. Diagnosis of disease
7. Causal Organism
8. Classification of causal
organism up to genus
species (Taxonomy)
9. Suggested Management of
diseases
 2. INSECT PEST CLINIC

1. Name of the student: Bhumika Sharma

2. Name of Host farmer: Sunnet Chauhan
3. RAWE Centre: Sustainable Agriculture Research Education and Extension
4. Name of the village: Jamnipur
5. Taluka Place of Village: Vikasnagar
6. District Place of Village: Dehradun

1. Name of the Crop

2. Incidence of insect pest
infestation
3. Types and extent of
damage caused
4. Place of Collection
5. Date of Collection
6. Diagnosis of disease, in
case insect is a carrier
agent
7. Causal organism
8. Classification of causal
organism up to genus
species (Taxonomy)
9. Suggested Management of
disease
3. DIAGNOSIS OF DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS OF DIFFERENT SOIL ELEMENTS (NUTRIENTS)

Identify the diagnosis and deficiency symptoms of major and micronutrients suggest the remedial
major and micro nutrients (Foliar/soil)

1. Name of Student Bhumika sharma

2. Name of Farmer
3. Name of Crop
4. Fertilizer applied
5. Variety
6. Growth stage
7. Symptoms observed
8. Deficient Nutrient as per
symptoms
9. Suggestions give
10. Control measure adopted
11. Changes in crop appearance
and growth after treatment