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About Krishi Vigyan
Kendra
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra is a district
level Farm Science Center established by the Indian Council of
Agricultural R esearch
(ICAR), New Delhi
at Sant Namdev Sevabhavi Sanstha, Tondapur District Hingoli for
speedy transfer of technology to the farmers fields. The
operational area of this Krishi Vigyan Kendra comes under the
Marathwada Zone. The aim of Krishi Vigyan Kendra is to reduce the
time lag between Generation of technology at the research
institutions and it's transfer to the farmer's field for
increasing production, productivity and income from the
agriculture and allied sectors on a sustained basis. In order to
achieve this goal, four mandates have been envisaged in the design
of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
According to the Right to Information ACT,
2005, Training Organizers of this KVK is designated as "Central
Public Information Officer (CPIO) and Training Associate Vet.
Science has been designated as Central Assistant Public
Information Officer (CAPIO) in order to furnish certain
information to citizens who desire for it.
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To demonstrate the latest agricultural
Technologies to the farmers as well as the extension workers
of the state Department of agriculture/Non-Governmental
organization with a view to reduce the time lag between the
Technologies generation and it's adoption.
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To test and verify the Technologies in the
socio economic condition of the farmers and identifying the
production constraints
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To get first hand scientific feed back from
the fields and passing it to the research system in order to
keep the scientist abreast with the performance of the
technologies and the farming problems, so that they re -orient
their research, education and training programmes accordingly.
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To impart training to the farmers,
farmwomen, rural youth and field level extension functionaries
by following the principles of "teaching by doing" and
"learning by doing".
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To provide training and communication
support to the line department of the state/NGOs.
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To develop extension models to be adopted
by general extension system for large scale multiplications.
Mandate
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Collaborate with the subject matter
specialists of the state Agricultural University/ Scientist of
the Regional Research Station (NARP) and the state extension
Personnel in "On-farming testing", refining and documenting
Technologies for developing region specific sustainable land use
systems.
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Organize training to update the extension
personnel within the areas of operation with emerging advances
in agricultural research on regular basis.
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Organize front-line demonstrations in various
crops to generate production data and feedback information.
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Organize long-term vocational training
courses in agriculture and allied vocations for the rural youths
with emphasis on "learning by doing " for generating
self-employment through institutional financing.
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