ABOUT KVK

Introduction to CREED

Vision:

We envisage the establishment of an economically emancipated, educationally awakened, enduringly eco-friendly and enlightened egalitarian society empowered with essential and efficient technology and methodology to cope with the foreseeable challenges of the modern world and the unforeseen havocs of natural disasters.

Mission:

Our mission is to empower the target communities to conserve and protect their environment, to build and develop their own infrastructural facilities according to their requirement, to solve their problems and manage all issues on their own and within themselves, to control the means and methods of their overall development and destiny through assertion of their socio-political and economical rights and to effectively use their organizational and collective power to enjoy good Governance, to revive and resurrect from any disasters.

Objectives:

1. To reduce the menace of poverty among the target community through rural development strategies and build appropriate infrastructural facilities for them
2. To make potable drinking water availability through collective action and eradicate waterborne diseases through such ways and means
3. To create comprehensive water and sanitation facilities for a health life
4. To prevent/control HIV/AIDS infections through awareness and preventive intervention/action
5. To train and capacitate the target people to increase their income earning capacity by facilitating the implementation of income generation projects
6. To rehabilitate persons with disabilities through capacity building, development projects and empowerment activities towards socio-economic empowerment
7. To bring relief to the victims of natural calamities and help them to return to normal life through sustainable rehabilitation
8. To seek alternatives for the children under child labour situation and assist their overall development
9. To empower marginalized and disadvantaged women through socio-economic and cultural interventions and facilitate the implementation of development programs, capacity building etc.
10. To facilitate the formation and strengthening of community-based micro-finance institution
11. To build water conservation structures through watershed development programs
12. To increase the green cover to the geographical region through plantation of trees and medicinal plants.
13. Addressing critical issues such as Climate Change, Agricultural Development, Transfer of Science and Technology amongst the resource poor small and marginal farmers through action research and extension services

ICAR – Krishi Vigyan Kendra

Mandates Of KVK:

• Conducting on-farm testing to identify the location specific agricultural technologies under various farming systems

• Organizing frontline demonstrations to establish production potential of various crops and enterprises on the farmers’ 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

• Organizing frontline demonstrations to establish production potential of various crops and enterprises on the farmers’ fields

Others Services:

• Soil and water testing (Rs 20/ soil sample and Rs. 10/ water sample)
• Plant and disease diagnosis
• Quality Seeds ,Planting material , Bio agents and livestock supply
• Diagnostic field visits
• Farm advisory service
• Resource centre for farmers visiting KVK
• Resource person in trainings of line departments
• Weather information
• Mobile advisory service

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