Achievements

The department has made the following achievements:

  • Conducted 98 Monitoring & Evaluation studies and day to day monitoring of foreign aided projects such as World Bank, ADB, JBIC and others
  • Prepared 81 PC-Is / proposals of different agricultural development projects for implementation 
  • Completed 59 Economic Studies
  • Monitored and evaluated Farmers Training Program of Agriculture Extension Wing with respect to rice and wheat crop
  • Coordinated 28 foreign aided projects (World Bank-12, Asian Development Bank-8, JBIC-5 and others-3)
  • Monitored / inspected the watercourses improved under NDP
  • Engagement of Legal Consultant for documentation of five R&D Companies and Management Consultant for the development of organizational structure / organogram of five R&D Companies
  • Developed and Monitored Integrated Pest Management Project
  • Restructuring of five Research Institutes into Corporate Mode, which were denotified later on
  • Made Agriculture Sector Programme Loan (ASPL-II) functional after establishment of Programme Management Unit (PMU)
  • Re-activation / Revamping of Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB)
  • About 60 monitoring reports of Fruit & Vegetable Development Project (Phase-I & Phase-II)
  • Conducted Impact Assessment Study of National Programme of Improvement of Water Courses & Laser Land Leveling of Water Management Wing
  • Conducted Impact Assessment of Bed Furrow in Cotton-Wheat & Rice-Wheat based farming systems
  • Coordinated and monitored, "Community Development Project for Rehabilitation of Waterlogged and salt affected lands (Biosaline-II)"
  • Implemented the Project titled, "Small House Cum Garden Plots for Eradication of Poverty in Southern Punjab"