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KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA |
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Mamit District, Lengpui -796410, Mizoram |
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OBJECTIVES
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To promptly demonstrate the latest agricultural technologies to the farmers as well as extension workers of the State Department of Agriculture and allied to reduce the gap between the technology generation and its adoption.
To identify the technological and
training needs of the farming community of the operational area.This
may be carried out with the help of Participatory Rural Appraisal
(PRA) tools or conducting scientific survey, group interviews and
personal visits.
To test and verify the technologies
in the farmers socio-economic conditions to study the production
constraints and to modify the technologies to make them appropriate
as well as to demonstrate the potentialities of various technologies
which is recommended for their adoption in maximizing yield/income
per unit of time and area under different resource conditions.
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 training and
communication support to the district level development departments
in their extension programmes and to develop and maintain functional
relationship with the allied institutions.
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 improve agricultural
mechanization for entrepreneurship development in the field of
agriculture and allied through transfer of economically viable and
environmentally sound technologies.
To develop and maintain campus
farms and demonstration units on scientific lines. To compile all relevant recommendations/package of practices for the district to be meaningfully utilized in the training programmes and the follow-up extension activities |
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