Year |
Milestones |
Deliverables |
2012-13 |
NA |
NA |
2013-14 |
NA |
NA |
2014-15 |
Establishment of Centres at Network Cooperating Centre |
New Network Centres |
Training of resource persons of Cooperating Centres in
collection and conservation of lac / host plant biodiversity. |
Capacity building of the resource persons of Cooperating
Centres. |
Survey for collection of information / lac-insects /
host-plants from different parts of each Agro-Ecological
Region (AER). |
Documentation of information on present status of lac-insect
and host-plants availability |
Identification of potential areas / farmers for facilitating
natural / aided multiplication of local lac insect populations |
Potential areas and farmers for in-situ conservation of
lac insects. |
2015-16 |
Survey for collection of lac insects / host plants from
different parts of the AERs |
Collection of local lac-insect population |
Training of adopted / selected farmers in lac cultivation
techniques |
Capacity building of the
adopted / selected
farmers |
Establishment of Lac-Insect Field Gene Bank |
Ex-situ
conservation of lac-insects |
Study of economic attributes of collected lac insect
biodiversity |
Documentation of lac insect biodiversity |
2016-17 |
Survey for collection of lac insects / host plants from
different parts of the AERs |
Collection of local lac-insect population |
On-Farm trials and demonstrations of lac cultivation
technologies |
Impetus for in-situ conservation of different lac
insect populations |
Multiplication of collected local lac insect population |
Sufficient broodlac for on-farm trials |
Report writing and publication of research findings |
Project report and Research publications |