Mandate:

To organize Front Line Demonstrations on various crops to generate production data and feedback information.

► To organize short and long term vocational training courses in agriculture and allied sectors for the farmer and rural youth with emphasis on learning by doing for higher production on farms and generating self employment.

► To plan and conduct survey of the operational area through participatory rural appraisal (PRA) methods and characterized physical and human resources with special reference to identifying the technological and training needs of the farming community.

►To compile all relevant recommendations or packages of practices for the district to be meaningfully utilized in the training programmed and follow-up extension activities.

►To plan and conduct production oriented and needs based short and long duration training courses both on campus and in villages for various target groups with priority on the resource poor sections.

►To develop and maintain the campus farms and demonstration units on scientific lines as the facilities for providing work experience to the trainees, dissemination of the latest technical know-how and also as a means to achieve financial sustainability in due course of time.

►To provide practical training facilities of the Kendra to the teachers and the students of vocational agriculture of the higher secondary schools.

►To provide added training facilities in the area of home making and nutrition education for rural communities and gradually enlarging the training facilities encompass other important areas such as home/rural crafts and cottage industries with the requirement of the integrated rural development in collaboration with the concern organizations