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PPQS Recruitment 2017 For Research Associate & Senior Research Fellow

Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage (PPQS) has released a notification for the recruitment of 118 Research Associates and Senior Research Fellows. Interested candidates may check the eligibility criteria and apply from 18-08-2017 to 17-10-2017.
More details about PPQS Recruitment (2017), including number of vacancies, eligibility criteria, selection procedure, how to apply and important dates click for link.

Job Location: Haryana

Recruitment For Research Associate

No. of Vacancies: 39
Pay Scale: Rs. 40,000

Recruitment For Senior Research Fellow

No. of Vacancies: 79
Pay Scale: Rs. 25,000

Eligibility

Educational Qualification:

For Research Associate: Candidates should have passed passed Doctorate Degree in relevant discipline from a recognised university.

For Senior Research Fellows: Candidates should have passed passed M.Sc. in relevant discipline from a recognised university.

Age Limit: Maximum 40 years (Male)/Maximum 40 years (Female)

Selection Process: Selection of candidates will be made on the basis of Personal Interview.

Application Fee: No Application Fee

Starting Date of Application: 18-08-2017
Last Date of Application: 17-10-2017

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About

Directorate of Plant Protection Quarantine & Storage was established in the year 1946 on the recommendation of Woodhead Commission as an apex organization for advising the Government of India and state governments on all the matter related to Plant Protection. The Directorate is headed by Plant Protection adviser. Plant Protection strategy and activities have significant importance in the overall crop production programmes for sustainable agriculture. Plant protection activities encompasses activities aimed to minimizing crop losses due to pests through integrated pest management, plant quarantine, regulation of pesticides, locust warning & control and training in desert areas besides training and capacity building in plant protection. It is an attached Office of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. It has various Sub-Offices through India and the Plant Protection Network of Directorate of PPQ&S in India is as follows.

Mission & Vision

Plant Protection continues to play a significant role in achieving targets of crops production. The major thrust areas of plant protection are promotion of Integrated Pest management, ensuring availability of safe and quality pesticides for sustaining crop production from the ravages of pests and diseases, streamlining the quarantine measures for accelerating the introduction of new high yielding crop varieties, besides eliminating the chances of entry of exotic pests and for human resource development including empowerment of women in plant protection skills.

Keeping in view the ill effects of pesticide and also National policy on Agriculture, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach has been adopted as a cardinal principle and main plank of plant protection in the country in the overall crop production programme. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a broad ecological approach for managing pest problems encompassing available methods and techniques of pest control such as cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical in a compatible manner. The objectives of the IPM approach are to increase crop production with minimum input costs, minimize environmental pollution and maintain ecological equilibrium.

The Locust Warning Organization (LWO) would continue to keep constant vigil on locust activity in the scheduled desert Area of 2.00 lakh sq. km. The Remote Sensing Laboratory, Jodhpur, the locust control potential of LWO (10 circles and 1 hq.) and locust research facilities at FSIL, Bikaner are also being strengthened during X Plan. Keeping in view the locust invasion of 1993, Locust Surveillance in the strategic areas has been intensified. India is a member of Desert Locust Control Committee of FAO & South West Asia Commission for Desert Locust control.
Quality control of pesticides would be accorded highest priority to ensure that the agro-chemicals used have the requisite degree of efficacy. The existing facilities of Central Insecticide Laboratory, Regional Pesticides Testing Laboratories, at Chandigarh and Kanpur would be strengthened to supplement the resources of state/UT Governments in the analysis of pesticides samples for monitoring their quality to ensure availability of quality pesticides to the farmers.

In Plant Quarantine, besides on-going activities, the thrust area will be pertaining to Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) and post entry quarantine surveillance. This has become essential in the light of World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement, which will facilitate more and speedier movement of plants, planting materials globally. Such a situation will expose a linking danger for the introduction of exotic pests/diseases in the country. Considering this fact, Ministry of Agriculture issued a notification entitled “The Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) order 2003” replacing the “The Plants, Fruits & seeds (Regulation of Import into India) order 1989”. The new regulation is effective from 01.01.2004. The existing Plant Quarantine Stations will be strengthened and there is possibility to establish some more stations with a view to enforce the quarantine regulations more effectively so as to keep the exotic pests and diseases at bay.