Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University plans to focus on environmental problems affecting agricultural production, water management, bio-technology, food processing technology, crop value addition and seed production technology during the coming year. Vice Chancellor KS Khokhar says university scientists will strive to make agriculture more profitable and sustainable in the coming years. This effort will involve a number of areas. Khokhar says the Green Revolution that made the country self-reliant in food and provided Indians food and nutritional security has also ushered in second-generation problems-degradation of natural resources, decreasing total factor productivity and depleting water resources apart from the salinisation of soils and nutrient deficiency in soil. He says climate change is another factor that threatens agriculture. The projected temperature rise alone is likely to reduce wheat production by five million tonnes in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Hence, the university has prioritised its research activities and in the coming years, it will ensure that these challenges are met and food production goes up. Underlining the need for water management, the VC says the issue has to be taken up seriously at all levels or else there is a possibility that in the coming decades, water shortage may aggravate. Accordingly, water saving technologies are being popularised to substitute flood irrigation with drip and sprinkler irrigation methods. The university will focus on water management throughout the state. The VC says so far as livestock is concerned, university scientists will work on developing low-cost feed technology for improving animal health and productivity. Development of vaccines and diagnostic tools for control of animal diseases and recycling of bio-waste from crop and animal sources will remain the thrust areas. Khokhar says in 2009, the university developed more than 12 varieties of different crops and two varieties of marigold. Commercial cultivation of these crops will boost agricultural production in Haryana. The new varieties include: WH 1021 (wheat), HKR 127 (rice), RH 0119 ( mustard), HD 432 (desi kapas), H 1098 and H 1236 ( American cotton), BH 902 (barley), HG 870 (guar) and Satya (moong). During the current year, the university sought collaboration with universities in the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands and a number of public and private institutions within the country. Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with the Central Institute of Research on Buffalo (CIRB), Hisar, National Research Development Council (NDRC), New Delhi, National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar, and TERI University, New Delhi. These will strengthen research and teaching activities. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has sanctioned a Rs 2.48-crore project called Business Planning and Development. This is the first project of its kind ever sanctioned by the ICAR to a university. It aims to encourage speedy technology transfer, promote self-employment and forge partnership with the private sector. The university filed 27 patents of which four have been approved. the university is the first in India to implement the IPR policy and has included it in its curriculum. The ICAR has authorised the university