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1. Provision of clinical assistance and management of livestock including cattle, piggery and poultry.
2. Promotion of fodder cultivation and sustained availability of animal feed.
3. To motivate the farmers for commercial cultivation of field as well as horticultural crops.
4. To popularized the high yielding varieties as well as package of practices of field crops as well as horticultural crops.
5. To minimize the post harvest losses in fruits and vegetables by low cost preservation.
6. Constituting of SHGs for seed production and their involvement in delivery system.
7. Promotion of composting for soil fertility replenishment.
8. Value addition of local produce locally for income enhancement.
9. Popularization of mushroom cultivation.
10. Developing and maintaining farms and demonstration units on scientific lines to facilitate work experience to
the trainees and also to put a show case of latest technical know-how.
11. Collecting feedback from the farmers and extension agencies and communicating these
messages to research scientist for modification of technology.
Focus Areas
1. Farming system analysis, documentation of the existing farming practices and socio-economic status of the
district for problem and needs identification.
2. nfrastructural development: library, training hall, networking,
demonstration and instructional farm development, and establishment of agri-clinic.
3. Conducting of OFT and FLD for technology assessment and refinement for feedback and feed forward.
4. To provide added training facilities in the area for home making and nutrition education for rural community and gradually enlarging the training facilities to encompass other important areas such as home crafts, with the requirements of the integrated
rural development in collaboration with the concerned organizations.
5. Development of farmer’s database I,e..,
conducting survey, analysis of training needs and preparation of action plan accordingly.
6. Preparation of need based literatures like leaflets or folders.
7. Plant protection measures for important field and horticultural crops.
8. Developing and organizing non-formal education programs by way of field days.
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