Welcome to Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Amihit, Jaunpur-II
Krishi Vigyan Kendra Amihit, Jaunpur-II was established in month November, 2018 by ICAR under the auspices of ANDUAT, Kumarganj, Ayodhya to cater the dire need of farming community through undertaking vocational training of farmers, farm women, rural youths, training of farmers based on farm trials, so as to assess the relative and usable technologies on farmer’s field and organized FLD to promptly demonstrate the latest agricultural technologies to the farmers as well as the field level extension workers.
Objectives
- Planning and conducting survey of the operational area in order to prepare the resource inventory with special reference to identifying the training needs of the farming community.
- Planning and conducting production- oriented, need-based short and long duration training courses both on campus as well as in the villages for various target groups with priority on the weaker and the poor.
- Developing and organizing non-formal educational programs by way of field days, farm visits, farmers fair, radio talk, Farm Science clubs etc. as the follow up information support to training courses.
- Organizing farm science clubs, both in rural schools and in villages in order to induce in younger generation a liking for and an interest for agricultural and allied sciences and scientific farming through supervised projects.
- Developing and maintaining the campus farms and demonstration units on scientific lines as the facilities for providing work experience to the trainees as also disseminating the latest technical knowhow.
- Providing practical facilities of the Kendra to the teachers and the students of the vocational agriculture of the higher secondary schools.
- Imparting some general education to rural illiterates and school drop-outs in order to make them not only good farmers but also better citizens.
- Providing added training facilities in the areas for home making and nutrition education for rural community.
- Gradually enlarging the training facilities to encompass other important areas such as home crafts , cottage industries etc. consistent to the requirements of the Integrated rural Development in collaboration with concerned organization.
- Implementing all such schemes of the ICAR and other related organizations which intend to strengthen the training programs of the Kendra.
