Mandates
To organize short and long term vocational training courses in
agriculture and allied enterprises for farmers, farm women, rural
youths with the emphasis on “learning by Doing” for higher
production on farms and generating self employment.
To organize training for in-service field level extension workers
to update their knowledge in emerging advances in agricultural
research on regular basis.
To conduct Front Line Demonstration on Oilseed Pulses,. Other crops,
agricultural machinery and village level income generation
enterprises to increase productivity &to get feedback
information.
To plan and conduct on farm testing for
identifying suitable technology andgeneration new research
information for solving need based problems of the farmers for
sustain ability of the land use system.
Objectives
To promptly demonstrate the latest agricultural technologies to
the farmers as well as extension workers of the State Department of
Agriculture/Horticulture, Animal science, with view to reduce the
gap between the technology generation and its adoption.
To test and verify the technologies in the socio-economic conditions
of the farmers with a view to study the production constraints and
to modify the technologies to make them appropriate.
To
impart training to the practicing farmers/farm women, rural youths
and field level extension functionaries by following the method of
“Teaching by doing” and “Learning by Doing”.
To back up with training and communication
support to the district level development departments in their
extension programme.
To develop extension models to be adopted by
general extension system for large scale multiplication .
To get first hand scientific feed back from
the fields and passing it to the research system in order to keep
the scientists abreast with the performance of the technologies and
the farming problems.
To bring about improvement in agricultural
mechanization in the area through entrepreneurship development in
agriculture and related aspects and to improve the socio-economic
status of the farming community through transfer of economically
viable and environmentally sound technologies on various aspects
such as crop[ production, mechanization, horticulture, animal
husbandry and women in agriculture.
Details of significant contribution made by
the KVK. In terms of innovations in developing extension education
programme , adoption of extension methodology and creating impact
in the area (both quantitative and qualitative).
The derails of visible impact in the social
system/farming community in terms of increase in the productivity
of various enterprises, creation of assets, infrastructure facility
for the community and organization of people, on a cooperative
basis for a common cause.
Priorities and Thrust Areas
Vocational training to farmers for raising
crop productivity, vegetable, fruit and flower.
Vocational training to rural youths for
establishing rural enterprises.
Vocational training to women in agriculture
for entrepreneurship development and income generation and
reduction of drudgery.
On farm testing for development of location
specific and need based technology
Demonstration of newly developed technology.
Development of model enterprises/
demonstration units in villages for income generation and
self employment.
Training of village level extension
functionaries.
