Job Details
Post Name : Graduate Assistant
No of Vacancy : 02 Posts
Pay Scale : Rs 15000/- (Per Month)
Post Name : Agriculture Field Operator
No of Vacancy : 06 Post
Pay Scale : Rs 10500/- (Per Month)
Educational Qualification :
For Graduate Assistant : B.
Sc (Botany) or Zoology as major subject
For Agriculture Field Operator : Matric with 2 experience in agriculture or 10 standard +2 years vocational in agriculture
Age Limit : Minimum and Maximum age limit is 21 to 45 year For Graduate Assistant & 18 years for Agriculture Field Operator (as on 3112.
2018)
Job Location : Cuttack (Odisha)
Selection Process : Selection will be based on Interview
Application Fee : There is no application fee
How to Apply : Interested Candidates may appear in interview along with self-attested copy of relevant documents, Original documents & recent passport size photograph at the time of Interview
The out break of devastating epiphytotic brown spot disease of rice (Helminthosporium spp) in 1942 in the then Bengal Province (the areas of which are now in the state of West Bengal in India and Bangladesh resulted in a serious shortage of rice Added to this, the failure of the civil administration to cope with such a disastrous situation culminated in what was called the Great Bengal Famine of 1943.
With this background, the Central Government, in the year 1944, decided to intensify research on all aspect of rice crop In 1945, the Government of India decided to establish a central Institute for rice research As a result, the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) was setup on 23 April 1946 at Bidhyadharpur, Cuttack, Odisha with an experimental farm land of 60 hectares provided by Government of Orissa Dr K.
Ramiah, an eminent rice breeder, as its founder Director Subsequently, in 1966, the administrative control of the institute was transferred to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
The CRRI is one of the Institutes of the ICAR under the Division of Crop Sciences The Institute has two research stations- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRURRS), Hazaribagh, in Jharkhand, and the Regional Rainfed Lowland Rice Research Station (RRLRRS), Gerua, in Assam These research stations were established to tackle the problems of rainfed uplands, and flood prone rainfed lowlands, respectively.