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Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Bhawanipatna was established during the year 1983 with the objective to develop location specific technologies for higher production, productivity and overall development of agriculture and allied sectors through research and technology dissemination in the Western Undulating Zone comprising Kalahandi and Nuapada districts of Odisha. During the last three decades this station has generated number of transferable technologies in the area of crop improvement, plant protection and crop production for major crops of the zone. To strengthen the research activities, All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project and All India Coordinated Research Project on Castor are in operation at the RRTTS since 2003 and 2006, respectively. In addition to this, voluntary center for AICRP on Soybean is functioning from 2011. Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa, a project of India Meteorological Department, Govt of India is working in this station since 1995.