Mandate of KVK

Keeping this background in view, KVK, Nanded is working in mission mode approach with following mandatory activities:

*'Technology assessment, refinement and Demonstration’ of Flagship Technologies in Agriculture and allied Sciences,

*Capacity building of different Stakeholders such as Farmers, Farm Women, Rural youths and Extension Personnel,

To work as “Knowledge and Resource Center” at District Level for Application of Agricultural Technologies in micro- farming situation, and

To conduct innovate Extension Activities for technology Backstopping Knowledge management in Agriculture.

Our objectives:-

1. To demonstrate the latest agricultural technologies to farmers as well as extension workers of the state department of agriculture/non-governmental organizations with a view to reduce the time lag between the technology generation and its adoption.

2. To test and verify the technologies in the socio economic conditions of the farmers and identifying the production constraints.

3. To get first hand scientific feedback 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 reorient their research, education and training programmes accordingly.

4. To impart training to farmers, farm women, Rural youth and field level extension functionaries by following the principles of ‘teaching by doing’ and ‘learning by doing’.

5. To provide training and communication support to the line departments of the state/NGOs.

6. To develop extension models to be adopted by general extension system for large scale multiplications.