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Mandate of KVK

The mandate of KVK is Technology Assessment and Demonstration for its Application and Capacity Development. To implement the mandate effectively, the following activities are envisaged for KVK
On-farm testing to assess the location specificity of agricultural technologies under various farming systems.
Frontline demonstrations to establish production potential of technologies on the farmers’ fields.
Capacity development of farmers and extension personnel to update their knowledge and skills on modern agricultural technologies.
To work as Knowledge and Resource Centre of agricultural technologies for supporting initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector in improving the agricultural economy of the district.
Provide farm advisories using ICT and other media means on varied subjects of interest to farmers
In addition, KVKs produce quality technological products (seed, planting material, bio-agents, livestock) and make it available to farmers, organize frontline extension activities, identify and document selected farm innovations and converge with ongoing schemes and programs within the mandate of KVK.

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.