Mandate
1. Organize short-term and long term vocational training courses in agricultural and allied sector for farmers and rural youths with emphasis on learning by doing for higher production on farms and generation self employment.
2. Conduct On-Farm Testing for identifying technologies in terms of location specific land use systems.
3. Organize training to update the extension personnel with emerging advances in agricultural research on a regular basis.
4. Organize Front Line Demonstration on various crops to generate production data and feed back information.
Objective
1. To organize skill and production oriented short and long term training programmes, both on-campus and off-campus for practical farmers- men and women and field level extension workers- on their immediate agricultural problems.
2. To organize training programmes and non formal educational activities for young farmers, specially school drop outs, to develop competence and confidence in them for modern farming, either on their own farms or for self employment.
3. To develop and organize informal educational programmes in terms of field days, farm visits, farmers fair, radio talks, informal centers etc with a view to strengthening the scientific information support to the farmers.
4. To organize functional literacy programmes for the farmers in collaraboration with the concerned local agency.
5. To organize farm Science Clubs both in the rural schools and in village to induce in younger generation a liking or interest in agricultural allied sciences and scientific farming.
6. To undertake necessary follow up measures continuously in terms of training and information support to farmers to farmers and extension workers.