introduction

The imperative state of Bahawalpur established an Agricultural Research Station at Khanpur in 1950 for the improvement of the crops grown in the region for enhancing the prosperity in the territory and to assist the farmers and upgrade their living standards.

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During 1969, Agricultural Research Station was shifted to Bahawalpur and its position was raised to Regional Agricultural Research Institute during 1987. The institute is playing a vital role in the awareness towards the farming community of Bahawalpur region through providing them with improved production and protection technology in consort with evaluation of high yielding, high fertilizer responsive, pest and disease resistant and well suited varieties of various crops for the region. Presently, the institute is comprised of three major divisions’ viz. Crop breeding (wheat, pulses, sorghum and millet, oil seeds and vegetable section), Agronomy, Soil Chemistry and Plant protection (plant pathology and entomology section). The sole ambition of the Institute is to undertake research and development efforts on evolution of better varieties of crops like wheat, pulses, oilseeds, sorghum, millets, vegetable along with crop production and protection technologies. The institute is playing a focal role in developing the sentience amongst the farming community of the region.

Serviced offered

SEED OF WHEAT:

Seed of four wheat verities i.e. Aas-11, Gold-16, Johar-16, Ghazi-19 Nawab-21 & Sadiq-21 is distributed to PSC, seed producing companies and farmers of the region

FARMERS GATHERING/SEMINARS:

Farmer days/Gathering are organized at least for three times in each year at RARI Campus.

RADIO/TV TALKS:

14 Radio/TV talks on various topics are delivered by the scientists of RARI, during last year.

ADVISORY SERVICES: are also provided to the farmer community of the region as and when required in every year.

RUST SURVEILLENCE SCHEDULE

Due to appearance of rust during 2nd week of January 2022, the surveillance activity has been started and will continue till 3rd week of March without any brea

BROCHURES

Brochures regarding production technology of following crops have been published and distributed for guidance of the farmers of the region:

  • Whea
  • Chickpea
  • Raya
  • Sorghum
  • Bajra

FACILITIES OFFICERED TO FARMER

Following are the services offered by the institute:

  • To guide farmers about production technology of newly developed varieties
  • To guide farmers about solutions of their problems through electronic and Print Media talks
  • Surveillance of wheat rusts in Southern Punjab
  • Survey, identification and evaluation of insect pest problems of field crops, vegetables and fruit plants for effective pest management
  • Monitoring of cotton crop in Southern Punjab
  • Monitoring of Wheat Training Program in Southern Punjab
  • Dengue awareness

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

WEBSITE

https://aari.punjab.gov.pk/rari_bhw (English and Urdu)

FACEBOOK

https://facebook.com/rari.bahawalpur (English and Urdu)

TWITTER

Human resources Management Information System (HRMIS) of Agriculture Department

CONTACT NUMBER/EMAIL ADDRESS