About

The Regional Research Station (RRS), Bhubaneswar of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology(OUAT) was established in the year 1978 with a mandate of conducting location specific agricultural research for the East and South Eastern Coastal Plain Agro-Climatic Zone of Odisha comprising of districts of Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Nayagarh and parts of Cuttack and Ganjam. It was renamed as Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station (Coastal Zone) in 1993.

The Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Bhubaneswar is situated at 200 15’ N latitude, 85.52’E longitude and at an altitude of 25.9 m above MSL. The total geographical area of the station is 87.5 ha out of which 46.4 ha (5.6 ha upland, 27.6 ha medium land and 13.2 ha low land) is under cultivation.

The East and South Eastern Coastal Plain Zone has a geographical area of 16.84 lakh ha of which 9.55 lakh ha is the net cultivated area. The cropping intensity of the zone is 173.5 %. About 38.9 % of the cultivated area is irrigated. Rice is the predominant crop of the zone (occupying 84.3 % of the net sown area) followed by greengram, blackgram sesamum, groundnut, mustard, sugarcane. Brinjal, tomato, ladies finger and potato are major vegetables and banana, papaya are the important fruit crops.

The predominant soil types of the zone are alluvial (50.1 %), lateritic (22.8 %), coastal saline and sandy (18.8 %), black (4 %) and red and lateritic (3.9 %).

Based on physiographic condition, soil type and availability of irrigation, the zone has been divided into seven sub-zones/farming situations such as (i) Coastal irrigated alluvium (ii) Rainfed alluvium (iii) Coastal alluvial saline (iv) Coastal waterlogged alluvium (v) Rainfed laterite (vi) Rainfed red and laterite and (vii) Mixed black.

The climate of the zone is hot and humid with a mean annual rainfall of 1577 mm and the mean maximum and minimum temperatures of 33.6oC and 22.4oC, respectively.

The station undertakes research activities funded by State Government and ICAR. The station is also involved in technology transfer through production and distribution of quality seeds, on farm research, imparting training to farmers and extension functionaries and participation in monthly Research-Extension interface meeting of KVKs and line departments of the Zone.