Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ranichauri

The Mandate of KVK:

• Organize short and long term trainings in Agriculture and allied enterprises for farmers, rural youth and unemployed women with emphasis on “Learning by doing” for update their knowledge and skills in modern agricultural technologies.
• Trainings of extension personnel to orient them in the frontier areas of technology development
• On-farm testing to in farmers’ field for identifying technologies suitable for location specific
• Organize frontline demonstrations (FLDs) to establish production potential of technologies on the farmer’s fields.
• Work as Knowledge and Resource Centre for improving overall agricultural economy in the operational area of the district.
• Production of quality seeds and planting materials for distribution among the farmers.

Activities of KVK:

Krishi Vigyan Kendra performs its activities as per the mandate suggested by ICAR, New Delhi.

Activities of the KVK are as follows:

• To organize On and Off campus training programmes for Farmers, Rural Women, Rural Youth, and Extension personnel  to make them aware about the latest technologies in agriculture
• To organize short and long term vocational training courses on cereals, pulses, vegetable, floriculture, beekeeping, dairying, mushroom, organic farming , protective cultivation and Soil Testing etc for farmers, rural woman, rural youth for self-employment
• To conduct Front Line Demonstrations (FLD) and  On Farm Trials (OFT) at farmer’s fields  on improved technologies  and refinement of  existing technology so as to suit the need of the farmer
•  Soil Testing and distribution of Soil Health Card to the farmers

Post harvest technology with value addition of hills crop.

Major Schemes/Projects operated in KVK:

• Cluster Frontline Demonstrations (CFLD) on pulses and oilseeds
• National Innovation on Climate resilient Agriculture (NICRA) in KVK, Tehri Garhwal