Mandate of KVK

Training, technology assessment, refinement and demonstration of technologies / products.

Objectives

Krishi Vigyan Kendra performs its activities as per the mandate suggested by ICAR, New Delhi. Objectives of the KVK are as follows:

To organize on and off campus training programmes for farmers, rural women, youth, and officers of the Department of Agriculture to make them aware about the latest technologies in agriculture.
To organize short and long term vocational training courses on vegetable, floriculture, beekeeping, dairying, mushroom, organic farming and protective cultivation etc. for rural youth for self-employment.
To arrange front-line demonstrations and on-farm trials at farmer’s fields on improved technologies and refinement of existing technology so as to suit the need of the farmer.

On-farm testing to identify the location specificity of agricultural technologies under various farming systems;
Front-line demonstrations to establish production potentials of technologies on the farmers’ fields;
Training of farmers to update their knowledge and skills in modern agricultural technologies;
Training of extension personnel to orient them in the frontier areas of technology development; and
Work as resource and knowledge centre of agricultural technology for supporting initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector for improving the agricultural economy of the district.