ICAR-IASRI Annual Report 2004-05

Abstract

The present annual report 2004-05 highlights some of the glimpses of the research achievements made, new methodologies developed, significant advisory and consultancy services provided, dissemination of knowledge acquired and human resource development, linkages cultivated/nurtured with various ICAR Institutes, SAUs and other research organisations in India and abroad. The scientists, technical personnel, administrative, finance and other staff of the institute have put in their best efforts in fulfilling the mandate of the institute and also in achieving the targets set during the year. The Institute initiated various new studies/projects during the year funded by AP Cess Fund of the ICAR. These are - ‘Combined analysis of experiments on long range effect of continuous cropping and manuring on soil fertility and yield stability’, ‘Outliers in designed experiments’, ‘National information system on agriculture education network in India’, ‘Statistical investigation on the performance of non-parametric stability measures when the genotype by environment data is non normal’, and ‘Some investigations on stable and robust clustering procedures’. The Institute also initiated some studies/projects supported by the Institute. These are- ‘Design and analysis of agroforestry experiments’, ‘A study on editing and imputation using neural networks’, ‘Software for analysis of survey data’, ‘Statistical analysis of experiments on determining level and frequency of phosphorous application in different cropping systems’, ‘Effect of selection of incomplete model specification on heritability; and Outside Institute (Funded by DST): ‘Statistical and algorithmic approach for improved estimation of treatment effects in repeated measurements designs’ and ‘Design and analysis of experiments for spatially correlated experiments’. Some of faculty received academic distinctions during the year. Dr. Rajender Parsad received ICAR National Fellow Award for his contributions in the field of Agricultural Statistics to work in the project entitled ‘Efficient design of experiments for quality agricultural research’. Many scientists received awards for their published papers as Best Paper Award from the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, New Delhi. Two scientists of the Institute were deputed for presentation of their papers in the international conferences.