RC Bellary
| Back Ground | Infrastructure | Research | Training | Research Farm | Collaboration |
| Research Farm The Centre has a Research farm of 86.70 ha situated at Sreedharagadda, Somasamudram P.O., Bellary district (13 km away from the Centre) with well-equipped infrastructure facilities for conducting the field experiments, demonstration of technology and micro-watershed studies. Various facilities of the farm include workshop, tractor, power tiller and farm equipments. Indigenously made state of the art experimental facilities like tilting hydraulic flume and rainfall simulator are available at the farm for basic hydrological studies under variable slope condition. To measure evapotranspiration Lysimeter are installed at the Research farm. The Centre is also equipped with various hydrological devices like Automatic stage level recorders, H-Flumes, Coshocton silt samplers, Multi-slot devisors, Ramser’s sampler and a number of self recording gauging stations (runoff plot, field plots, microwatershed and small watersheds) for measuring resource losses (runoff, soil loss and nutrient losses) in different situations in the region on watershed basis. |
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Hydro-meteorological stations The Centre has full-fledged cartography cell with modern instruments to meet the requirements of the different research projects, consultancy services and training programmes. |
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Exhibition hall/Museum The exhibition hall covers an area of 133 sq. m, which is situated at the Research farm. The research findings, achievements, activities of this Centre are displayed in the form of photographs, data tables and graphs/maps on the panels. Distinguished dignitaries, Scientists, farmers, students etc., are visiting the museum regularly. |
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