University Council Meeting of SKUASTK on 28-1-2024 HLG Shri Manoj Sinha Ji Chaired the meeting. Was praiseworthy of SKUAST

1. Welcome
34th University Council Meeting
Raj Bhavan Jammu 28-1-2024
Chairmanship
Shri Manoj Sinha
Hon'ble Lt. Governor J&K & Chancellor SKUAST-K
SKUAST-Kashmir
Presented by
Dr Nazir A Ganai
Vice Chancellor, SKUAST-K

2. • Setting - New goals, Vision, Mission
• Prioritising - regional and national responsibilities
• Strategizing Reforms, Building Capacity, Defining Role Play
• Mid Term correction- Responding to new Roles and Challenges
• Appraising – Impact assessment
• Defining Futuristic roadmap
Our Path since 2018

3. Resetting our
Goals & Mandates
In Tune with National Goals and Priorities

4. SKUAST-K for Quality of Life
Food, Nutritional,& Economic Security
Gender and Social Equity
Better Education and Health
Job & Wealth Creation
Safe Food and Safe Environment
One Health- human, animal, environment
Improve Standard of Living
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5. A Top INNOVATION lead Farm University
SKUAST-Kashmir for Quality of Life
SLOGAN
❑ Make SKUAST-K a preferred destination for Agri-education for its creativity,
innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, social and gender equity.
❑ Build basis for a knowledge-based and Technology-driven Agri-economy
❑ Train young minds in new frontier areas that drive smart and intelligent farming
practices
❑ Inspire and groom the students for start-ups and innovation-led entrepreneurships
❑ Inculcate ethical principles & develop understanding of environmental & social
ethos.

6. • Outcome based EDUCATION for Next Gen Human capital
• Translational RESEARCH for sustainable Bio-economy
• Farmer Centric OUTREACH for seamless ICT driven knowledge &
Tech transfer
• Tech driven INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP for wealth and
job creation
Our 4th Mandate:
INNOVATION & ENTREPREUNERSHIP

7. SKUAST-K
as
REFORM Ready University

8. Translated NEP-2020
into
Agri-Education Model
From
Qualified & Unemployable Graduates
to
Skilled, Entrepreneurial and Industry
Ready Graduates
REFORMS: EDUCATIONAL

9. EDUCATIONAL REFORMS
SKUAST-K Leading the Way in NEP-2020
Educational
Ecosystem
Under-graduate
Degree by
Design
P G Program
Sandwich
Mode
Post Graduate
Dual Degree
with Foreign Universities
Short Skill
Courses
(60 Courses)

10. DISCOVERY CENTER
• Center for AI & ML in Agriculture
• Technology Business Incubation
• Patent facilitation Cell
• Adopted N I S P
COLLABORATIONS
• IIT Kanpur, Ropar, Kharagpur
• c-DAC
• MANAGE Hyderabad
• Industry Tie-ups
Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem

11. e-governance
• Achieved
oAdmissions
oRecruitment
oCentralized Payroll System
oHRM System
oAcademic Management System
• In Progress
oe-Office
oFinancial Management System
oPaperless examination system

12. OUTCOMES
of
Renewed Journey

13. OUR RANKINGS
4th Best
S A U
(NIRF)
Grade “A”
Accredited
(ICAR)
1st SAU
Atal
Innovation
Band 11-50
(NIRF)
1st SAU to
Implement
NEP-2020
Case study
for NAHEP
Success
(W B)
3rd BEST
NAHEP
(World Bank)
1st J & K
Innovations
& Startups
(JKCST)
1st SAU
to hold
International
Education Fair

14. Innovations and Start-ups
25 Startups
11 Pvt Ltd
Companies
17 Patents
44 submitted
i-TBI Center
(DST)
13
BIRAC-BIG
Grants
(DBT)
100
Innovation
Grants
1st SAU
to adopt
N I S P
(MoE)

15. 2017
35th
22nd
6th
4th
2019 2022
2021
ICAR Ranking NIRF Ranking
2018
29th
10th
2020
GROWTH INDEX

16. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
SKUAST-K IUST SMVDU Kashmir
University
NIT SKUAST-Jammu
In-house START-UPS
SKUAST-K understands NEP-2020
Entreprenurial Education
26
4
3 3 2
1

17. 0
3
5
8
10
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Growth of Start-ups
SKUAST-K

18. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
BIRAC RKVY Awadh IIT
Ropar
CITI Grant TIDE 2.0 Nidhi Prayaas
SEED Grants
earned by Students
13
7
2 2
1 1

19. Startups Nurtured
01 M/S Daskdan Innovation Pvt. Ltd
02 M/S IAPS Agritech Private Limited
03 M/S BB&GG (LLP)
04 M/S Pherobank Technologies Pvt.Limited
05 M/S KashVet Innovations Pvt Ltd
06 M/S Cashmir Biotec Pvt. Ltd
07 M/s Acells Imprint Pvt Ltd
08 M/S Techno Orchard LLP, Srinagar
09 M/s Zeeba Biotec
10 M/S Kashmeer OrganoGreens Private Limited
11 M/s KashmirCarbonzone Pvt Ltd
12 M/s SeriKon Innovations Pvt Ltd
13 M/s The Garden Guardians MSME
14 M/s SmartFish MSME
15 M/S GreenFood Innovations Pvt Ltd
16 M/s Biotech Bees Pvt Ltd
1 Raja Waseem Nazir
2 Ashfaq F Aga, Goher B Wani Faiza Farooq, Farzana, Romaisa
3 Er. Saqib Rashid
4 RiyazAshra & Naveed Hamid
5 Samreen Khan and Tabish
6 Parthiban M & OwaisAli Wani
7 Mohd Salim Mir
8 Tahir Nazir
9 AsifASheikh
10 Aamina Nazir
11 Asma Khursheed
12 Daima Saleem
13 Faraz Sidiqi
14 Barik Qayoom
15 Omar Inayat
16 Adil Hussain Mugloo (FRM)
17 Owais Bashir, Soil Science
18 SheikhAmjid
19 InshaAmin
20 Zulfikar
21 MudasirAMir
22 Iqra Reshi
23 Muskaan un Nisa
Upcoming Startups

20. EDUCATION
Reforms, Accomplishments &
Future Roadmap

21. Academic Programs
Program No of Courses No of Students Streams
U G Program 8 2119 Veterinary, Fisheries
Agriculture, Horticulture
Forestry , Sericulture
Agri-engineering ,
Food Science
Masters 55 586
PhD 46 386
TOTAL 3091
Course No of Courses No of Trainees
Diploma 15 1,000
Certificate 54 22,000 MSME – 610 trainings
HADP - 54 Courses
License Courses 03 4,000 MANAGAE
Total 27,000
DEGREE
PROGRAMS
Short Skill
Courses
45.7
6
54.24 %
Male

22. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
Students enrollment
SKUASTK- a Preferred Destination
3091
2828
1475 1356
1411
964
927 925 799
810
713 671
394

23. Moving beyond Boundaries
Internationalising Education
Faculty Overseas Training: 90
Student Overseas Training: 81
Student Visiting Fellows: 10
Overseas Masters: 09
Overseas PhD: 06
International Sandwich PG: 02

24. Our Graduates in Global Universities

25. Presenting India to the World
First International Education Expo

26. Increasing Faculty Diversity: Adjunct Faculty

27. RESERACH
Reforms, Accomplishments &
Future Roadmap

28. Focus areas of Research
Food
Security
(High yielding varieties)
Biodiversity
conservation
(Conserving heritage)
Climate
Resilient
Agriculture
ONE Health
(Plant, Animal,
Environment & Human)
Economic
Security
Nutritional
Security
(Biofortified foods)
Research aligned to UN SDG’s

29. Quality of Research
H INDEX
79
PATENTS
17/44
TECHS
150
VARIETIES
112
AWARDS
>70

30. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
SKUAST-K IARI IVRI PAU GBPUAT SKUAST-J TNAU YSPUH&F KASHMIR
UNIVERSITY
JAMMU
UNIVERSITY
PDKV
AKOLA
IUST PJSTAU
Patents Granted
(NIRF Database)
SKUAST-K Stands Ahead of All

31. 33
48
63
79
1 2 3 4
H-Index
2019 2021 2022 2023
H-INDEX
Quality of Research
SKUASTK

32. Varietal Output since 2018
S.
N
o.
Crop No. of
varieties
State
release
National
release
1 Rice 2 2 -
2 Maize 8 5 3
3 Pulses 6 6 -
4 Oilseed 1 1 -
5 Fodder oats 2 1 1
6 Saffron 1 1 -
7 Zeera 1 1 -
8 Vegetables 2 2 -
9 Wheat 1 1 -
Total 24 20 4

33. Crop Variety Annual economic
return (Rs in Cr)
Rice Jehlum / SR-4 / Improved
Mushkbudji
1500.00
Maize Composites (C & SMC series) 350.00
Oilseed KOS1/KS101/SS series 250.00
Wheat SW1 and SW20 5.00
Fodder oats Sabzaar and SFO series 300.00
Pulses Shalimar series 130.00
Total 2535.00
Economic impact of SKUAST-K Varieties
Other Interventions with
Economic Impact (Unmonetized)
1. Plant Health (Pest & Disease)
management schedule
2. Planting material (Pedigreed
plants)
3. Consultancy/Advisories/
Policy support
4. Agronomic management
Technologies
5. Bio-inputs (organic
formulations)
6. Vaccines (Animal/poultry)
7. Human Capital generated

34. Food & Nutritional Security
SR-4 variety: 10 ton / hac, 3X National
Average, Altitude- 3000 ft
Finger Millet (Eleusine corana) at
FoA, SKUAST-K
SR-5 variety: 6.5 ton / hac, 2X National
Average, Blast Resistant
Shalimar QPM: High in Lysine & Tryptophan Shalimar Fodder Maize 1 Shalimar Maize Hybrid-5: Rainfed
ecologies

35. Climate Smart Agriculture
Drought Tolerant - SMC-8
Buck Wheat
Finger Millet

36. Mushkbudji Red ( Zag) Rice Ambri Apple Kashmir Lal Mirch
Saffron Kala Zeera Buck wheat
Conservation Agriculture
Revived our Landraces and Made them Commercial

37. Organic Agriculture
Pheromone Traps
for IPM
Integrated Pest & Disease Management

38. Commercial Agriculture
Hybrid Seed Production
Commercial Sheep
Farming
Commercial Dairy farming
Our Products
HD Apple – 60 ton / ha
Commercial Vegetable

39. Cafeteria of Medicinal Plants
Cultivation for Conservation and
Entrepreneurship
o 42 Commercially important species
o 7 lac plant saplings
o 1200 farmers trained
o 25 tradable products
o CoE on Medicinal Plants

40. BEST STALL AWARD Gujrat
22 Jan 2024

41. Protected Organic
Agriculture in Ladakh

42. P
SalOVac Vaccine
Genetic Recombinant Vaccine
Salmonellosis in Poultry
Zoonotic Disease Humans and Poultry
Mycoplasma Vaccine
Inactivated Vaccine for CCPP
Mycoplasma – very common
in Goats in Ladakh
Infectious Disease Virus
also called as Chicken AIDS
virus
BURSA-SV
Genetically Stable IBD Vaccine
Animal / Poultry Vaccines

43. Wound Healing
Cream
with Stem Cell
exosomes Collagen based bandage strips loaded with
stem cell exosomes and phytomolecules for
infectious wound healing
BurnRecover Bandage Infection-Free Bandage
Negative
Control
Scaffold
Positive
Control
Day 3 Day 6 Day 9 Day 12
Efficiency: 100% efficient compared to
available ointments like burnol and soframycin
and No Scar formation seen
Regenerative Medicine
Stem Cell based Tissue Regeneration
Heal-Exo-Fast Cream
RatExperiment Goat Experiment

44. Molecular Diagnostics
RT- PCR based Novel diagnostic kit
Rickettsial infections in human
(Spotted fever, Typus fever and Scrub typhus fever)
ProStain Gold
A Novel Protein staining dye
Protein staining Kit
Extracted from Walnut Husk waste
Not available in world, having huge market potential Waste to Wealth, making biological research Cheap

45. Nano-Based Artificial
Diet for Silkworm Rearing
•Nano-based artificial diet for
offseason silkworm cultivation.
•Speed breeding of Silk-worm
for evolving new breeds
•Patent Filed

46. H A D P
A Game Changer Project
March 2023
46

47. Basic Components of HADP
March 2023
47
Components Indicators
Kissan Sampark Abhiyan
A massive outreach program
24 April 2023 start and continuing
5 lac Farmers Covered
4.5 lac Farmers Base line survey
YUVA VANI
Awareness program with youth for their interests in
agri businesses
19000 youth covered
Daksh Kissan
An Online skilling Program
121 courses created
05 Multi-lingual content
62316 Farmers registered
14550 Enrolled Farmers
19074 Courses enrolled
1007 Fully completion courses
Kissan Sathi
Facilitating Online Applications for HADP Schemes
50662 Registered Farmers
52693 Applications received
14782 Applications approved

48. Seed Indent & Availability (q)
Crop Breeder Seed Foundation seed T L S
Indent Availability Indent Availability Indent Availability
Rice 13.43 40.61 - 705.00 - -
Maize 6.24 7.30 - - - 80.00
Pulses 4.20 6.96 - - - 38.39
Wheat 7.50 9.43 - - - 50.14
Oilseed 1.00 1.57 - 20.84 - -
Oats 35.00 72.34 - - - 150.01
Vegetables 0.06 1.15 - - - 3.04
TOTAL 67.43 139.36 - 725.84 - 321.58
o Bridging the Seed Gap: Truthfully labelled Seed
o Role for the Department of Agriculture-Strengthening Seed multiplication Chain
o Increase Seed replacement Rate

49. Students Activities

52. Future Roadmap
Future Ready University
Future Ready Agriculture
ViksitJK to Lead ViksitBharat@2047

53. Future Ready Agriculture
Towards a Knowledge-based,
Technology-driven
& Sustainable Agri-economy

54. WHY we need to think of
FUTURE-Ready FARMING
Population
Growth
Increased Food
demand
Deteriorated Natural
resource base
Climate change Tech
Revolution
Farmers becoming
irrelevant

55. Future Farming
Driven by Machines
SOWING MONITORING IRRIGATION
WEEDING HARVESTING PACKING

56. POMATO BRIMATO GOLDEN RICE LAB GROWN
MEAT
GRASS CARP
CLEANING
PONDS
CLONAL RICE HUMANISED
MILK
PLANT
BASED
VACCINES
BOFUELS Plant-based
COVID
VACCINE
Future Farming Products

57. What Technology can bring in
agriculture in future
Higher Yields

58. J and K
Set for Future Ready Agriculture
❑ Vision and Will of Govt- Clear
❑ Agri- Universities : Among TOP in Country
❑ Digital J K: > 1000 services already digitized
❑ Literacy rate : 78 %
❑ Access to Internet 60%
❑ Mobile Phones: 97%
❑ Technology Adoption in JK: Fast

59. University Futuristic Expansion Plan
1. Directorate of Innovations and Startups
2. AI & ML Center
3. Center for Policy Planning
4. Business Incubation Center
5. School of ONE Health
6. School Community Science
7. School of Food Sciences & Engineering
8. College of Dairy Technology
9. School of Applied Biosciences
10. Poultry Research & Training Centre
11. Organic Farming Research & Training Centre
12. Agri-eco Tourism Research and Training Instt.
13. Skill/Vocational Training Centre

60. ISSUES

61. Support system Required
Issue Plea
Guest House in Jammu Transfer of One Govt Building or
Govt Land 5 kanal
Increased Student Intake 4 Hostels
International Students International Hostel
SKUASTK as Residential
University
University Township at Zakura
Land available
100 faculty + 150 Non-teaching
Electricity Fee On Domestic Metered Rates

62. International Hostel???

64. Viksit J & K
to Lead
ViksitBharat@2047
THANK YOU