The Tribal research cum Training centre was established at Devgadh Baria in the year of 1977 at the palace donated by Late Maharaja Jaideep Singh of Baria state with the objective of the overall development and betterment of Tribal farmers through training on Agricultural, Horticultural, Animal Husbandry, Poultry etc. The centre has approximately 8 hactares of land. This station is located in off campus of the university which is about 40 km away from Godhra bus stand, 15 km away from NH 59 Piplod and 47 km away from Dahod bus stand.

This centre serves as a volunteer centre for the soyabean crop under the AICRP project scheme. In this scheme, this strategy focuses on genetic modification and production technology for important crops used in tribal areas (soybean). Numerous experiments with genetic enhancement have been conducted as part of national and state projects. The center has gathered and assessed soybean germplasms from different locations and developed high-yielding varieties of the crop based on regional needs.

Centre organize on-station training, on-farm training, field level demonstration, group meetings, campaigns, field trips, farmers days, and other events under the tribal research cum training centre scheme to bring about desired changes to the traditional farming system and to improve the skills of the traditional farming community. Centre train farm women about their invaluable contribution, how to operate farms and care for animals more efficiently, and how to prepare for value addition based agro-industries under the Tribal Farm Women Training Center program. Additionally, we set up training programs to train a group of rural tribal women about home management, childcare, eating a balanced diet, etc.

In AICRP an integrated farming system scheme, we give farmers diverse inputs by organizing them into village-based groups and providing varied farm inputs based on their cropping system. In addition, a self-help group of indigenous women was formed to produce value-added products for the market using inputs from this center and raw materials from their own farm. The objective of this centre is given below.

Mandates:

To impart knowledge and production skills in crop production, horticulture, farm forestry, Animal husbandry, poultry keeping, agriculture, health and audition etc to the tribal farm women.

To provide vocational training in agro-based cottage industries to tribal farm women families so as to improve their income and make them lead better quality of life.

To educate the tribal farm women families to use appropriate low cost and low risk technologies in the farm and homes.

To diversify the use of labour in lean period through subsidiary enterprises like livestock farming, poultry keeping, apiculture etc.

 To identify the social customs, norms and beliefs of the tribal which act as turner in adoption of new technologies and to influence the change in their traditional outlook.

To conduct need-based training programme for tribal farm women.

Salient achievements:

Total 2 varieties are released/Endorsement click here

Total 27 technologies are developed click here

About 5 Long term Project/Scheme and 1adhoc  Project/Scheme are in operation at this centre click here

Total 3 Project/Scheme are completed successfully click here

About 2 Research Paper published in International journal and 3 in National journal from this centre click here