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TRAINING WING
Training for field functionaries, farmers, unemployed youths, housewives and others are organized at two levels, at the University level and at KVK. The University level trainings are organized at its headquarter and other campuses of the University mainly to the field functionaries and subject matter specialists for updating the scientific knowledge and to improve the technical skill of the officers of different state line departments and NGOs. Training programmes for farmers/farmwomen and unemployed rural youth are mainly organized at all Krishi Vigyan Kendras on a routine basis. Primarily, trainings are intended to address problems of under-employment, unemployment and malnutrition in rural areas through diversification of agriculture andpromotion of horticulture, fisheries, dairy, livestock, poultry, beekeeping, sericulture, etc.
The details of the progress achieved by the Directorate of Extension Education during the year 2005-06 are given below.
Training imparted during the year 2005-06.
Target groups |
Beneficiaries |
General |
SC/ST |
Total |
Practicing farmers |
9780 |
2066 |
11846 |
Rural youths |
3797 |
1007 |
4804 |
Extension functionaries |
2493 |
360 |
2853 |
Training under FLD |
2111 |
399 |
2510 |
Other sponsored trainings |
7420 |
1639 |
9059 |
Total |
25601 |
5471 |
31072 |
Other Sponsored Training Programmes
S. No. |
Categories |
No. of Programmes |
Beneficiaries |
1 |
Mushroom Cultivation |
02 |
53 |
2 |
Medicinal Plants |
02 |
36 |
3 |
Honey Production |
10 |
370 |
4 |
Total |
14 |
459 |
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