C(b) Ento 3 ICAR
Objectives
- To conduct research on honey bees, bees and other pollinators; generate technologies for their conservation, augmentation and utilization for pollination of crops in improving crop productivity
- To undertake research on honey bee breeding for disease resistance and high yielding strains for higher production of quality hive products
- To conduct location specific research on management of honey bees, bees and their diseases and enemies
- To prepare database on relative abundance, foraging behaviour of different pollinators on various crops and study the pollination requirements of crops
- To organize and impart trainers training on bee pollinators and scientific beekeeping
C(g) Ento 41-OA
Objectives
Collection of Honey bees i.e. Apis dorsata, A. florea, A. cerana and Tetragonula (=Trigona) spp. from Semiarid region of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Desert region of Rajasthan for morphometry and molecular studies
C(b) Ento-6 ICAR
Objectives
- To conduct trainings for scientists and academic staff of SAUs and ICAR Institutes for upgrading their skills in frontier areas of Entomology
- To provide assistance in research conducted by PG students.
C(b) Ento-7 ICAR
Title of the Project : All India Network Project (AINP) on Pesticide Residues
Name of the Scientist working : 1. Dr. Beena Kumari, Principal Investigator
: 2. Dr. Sushil, Co-P.I.
Funding agency : ICAR
Objectives
- To organize, promote and coordinate research on pesticide residues in agricultural produce and other components of nvironment at all India level.
- To study the dissipation of pesticides in crops from supervised trials with recommended pesticides and workout safe time limits between pesticides application and consumption of the produce.
- To devise and improve sampling extraction and analytical technology to facilitate quality assurance for ensuring reliability of residue data.
- To examine the effect of processing of food commodities for removal/reduction of pesticide residues
- To maintain up to-date information on pesticide residues and to provide guidelines to research and extension workers in the country.
