University Of Agricultural Sciences

We work at the GKVK campus, specifically in the Pigeon Pea and Dolichos breeding section. It is a very large campus with lots of green space and fields. The University Of Agricultural Sciences has been doing this research for a long time. Our days are spent mostly outside in the dirt or in the small lab areas. We deal with seeds and plants all day long. It’s not like a regular office job at all. We have to watch the weather closely because it changes how the crops grow in the experimental plots. The Pigeon Pea plots are in one area and the Dolichos are in another. We walk a lot between the different fields to check on the growth. It’s quiet out here, away from the city traffic. You can hear birds and the wind in the trees. We have some old sheds where we keep the tools and the samples we’ve collected. The GKVK area is a nice place to be if you like nature and plants. We don't have any marketing people or anything like that. We are just researchers and staff trying to see what works best in the soil. Sometimes the crops don't do what we expect, and we have to start the whole process over. It takes a lot of patience. We eat our lunch under the big trees when it's too hot to be in the buildings. It's a slow and steady kind of life here at the breeding station.