Mandates of the KVK Kishtwar
- 1. Conducting On-Farm Testing (OFTs) to identify location specific agriculture production, protection and management technologies for developing sustainable land use systems.
- 2. Laying out Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs) on Farmers Fields on various crops to establish the production potential and facilitate the adoption of improved crop production, protection and management technologies.
- 3. Conducting need based training programmes for farmers, farm-women and rural youth to update their knowledge and skills regarding potential and proven agricultural technologies and practices.
- 4. Conducting trainings for extension personnel to update their knowledge and skills and reorient them in the frontier area of advanced and recent technologies and emerging advances in agricultural and allied field research and developments.
- 5. Work as knowledge and resource centre of agricultural technologies for supporting the initiatives of public private and voluntary sector for improving the agriculture economy of the district.
- 6. Conducting various extension activities to accelerate the process of technology dissemination in the district.
- 7. Collaborative participation of KVK scientists, extension workers and farmers to reduce the time lag between the generation of technologies and their transfer to the farmers through the application of science and technology.