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| Mandates |
- 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 farmer’s 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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| Objectives |
- To demonstrate the latest agricultural technologies to the farmers as well as extension workers
of State Departments of Agriculture/Horticulture/Fisheries/Animal Science/Non-Government
Organizations with a view to reduce the time lag between the technology generation and its
adoption.
- To test and verify the technologies in the socio-economic conditions of the farmers with a view
to study the production constraints and to modify the technologies to make them appropriate.
- To impart training to the practicing farmers/farm women, rural women, rural youth and field
level Extension functionaries by following the method of “teaching by doing” and “learning by
doing”.
- To back-up with training and communication support to the district level development
departments, viz, Agriculture / Horticulture / Fisheries / Animal Science and Non Government Organization in their extension programmes.
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