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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

The Eastern region comprising eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Orissa and Chattisgarh and representing 22 per cent of the Geographical area of the country supports 33 per cent of the country's population. Though the region is endowed with rich natural resources to support higher agricultural production, livestock and fisheries, the production levels have remained low mainly due to lack of location specific production technologies, dissemination of scientific farming knowledge to farmers, natural calamities e.g. floods, water logging and drought, and social conflicts. The region has however, the potential to usher in second green revolution.

ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna came into existence on the 22nd February 2001 after merger of Directorate of Water Management Research, Patna with the complex. On 1st April 2001, Central Horticultural Experimental Station, Ranchi and Central Tobacco Research Station, Pusa were merged in the Complex. The ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna is a broad based framework to address diverse issues relating to water and land resources management, Crop husbandry, horticulture, fishery, livestock and poultry, agro-processing and socio-economic aspect in holistic manner for enhancing research capability and providing a backstopping for improvement in agricultural productivity and sustainability in the eastern region. After amalgamation of the aforesaid three research programme viz. Land, Water, Environment and Engineering Research Programme (LWEERP), Patna. ;Crop Research Programme (CRP), Pusa,; Horticulture and Agro-Forestry Research Programme (HARP), Ranchi; Livestock and Fishery Improvement and Management Programme (LFIMP), Patna; and Socio-Economic and Extension Research Programme (SEERP), Patna. The National Research Centre on Makhana has been brought under the administrative and financial control of the ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region as it centre for makhana at Darbhanga in the approved Xth Plan EFC Memo of ICAR-RCER. The Complex is now a multi-commodity and multi-disciplinary institutional framework to address research issues and to develop technologies relevant to prevailing biophysical and socio-economic environment of the eastern region.

HARP, RANCHI IS LOCATED AT PLANDU, 17 KM AWAY FROM RANCHI ON RANCHI-TATA ROAD (NH-33)

THE RESEARCH FARM OF HARP ARE LOCATED AT FOUR PLACES: PLANDU (70.4 HA), CHURU(99.2 HA), GARAKE (7.5HA) AND LALKHATANDA (41.7 HA).


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