About us...

The Krishi Vigyan Kendra is a district level Farm Science Center established during 1995 by the Indian Council of Agricultural research (ICAR), New Delhi at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh for speedy transfer of technology to the farmers fields. The operational area of this Krishi Vigyan Kendra comes under the ICAR, Zone VII, JNKV, Jabalpur (M.P.).

Mandate...

The overall mandate ofthe KVK is to develop and disseminate location specific technological modules at district level through Technology Assessment, Refinement and Demonstration and to act as Knowledge and Resource Centre for agriculture and its allied activities.

Objectives of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)

• Planning and conducting survey of the operational area in order to prepare the resource inventory with special reference to identifying the training needs of the farming community.
• Planning and conducting production- oriented, need-based short and long duration training courses both on campus as well as in the villages for various target groups with priority on the weaker and the poor.
• Developing and organizing non-formal educational programmes by way of field days, farm visits, farmers fair, radio talk, Farm Science clubs etc. as the follow up information support to training courses.
• Organizing farm science clubs, both in rural schools and in villages in order to induce in younger generation a liking for and an interest for agricultural and allied sciences and scientific farming through supervised projects.
• Developing and maintaining the campus farms and demonstration units on scientific lines as the facilities for providing work experience to the trainees as also disseminating the latest technical know how.
• Providing practical facilities of the Kendra to the teachers and the students of the vocational agriculture of the higher secondary schools.
• Imparting some general education to rural illiterates and school drop-outs in order to make them not only good farmers but also better citizens.
• Providing added training facilities in the areas for home making and nutrition education for rural community.
• Gradually enlarging the training facilities to encompass other important areas such as home crafts , cottage industries etc. consistent to the requirements of the Integrated rural Development in collaboration with concerned organization.
• Implementing all such schemes of the ICAR and other related organizations which intend to strengthen the training programmes of the Kendra.

The first KVK, on a pilot basis, was established in1974 at Pondicherry under the administrative control of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. The mandates of KVKs are as follows-

Mandates of KVK

• Conducting on-farm testing to identify the location specificity of agricultural technologies under various farming systems.
• Organizing frontline demonstrations to establish production potential of various crops and enterprises on the farmers’ fields.
• Organizing need based training of farmers to update their knowledge and skills in modern agricultural technologies related to technology assessment, refinement and demonstration, and training of extension personnel to orient them in the frontier areas of technology development.
• Creating awareness about improved technologies to larger masses through appropriate extension programmes.
• Production and supply of good quality seeds and planting materials, livestock, poultry and fisheries breeds and products and various bio-products to the farming community.
• 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.

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Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bemetara Chhattisgarh