Sri Vinod Singh
Secretary , KNMT

Dr. M. B. Singh

Programs Coordinator

The KVK has  started its function from sept.1977 and priority was given for development of infrastructural  facilities like buildings, development of campus, instructional  units and other facilities required for on-campus activities . This took about four year to fulfill the minimum requirements, In the mean time all the activities related to ‘Transfer of Technology’ have been conducted on farmers field . there after , on-campus activities were started at main campus and its sub-units located under different agro-ecological situations .The achievements made by KVK during the last two decades in relation to infrastructural development, training programs for practicing farmers ,rural youth and extension functionaries , demonstration of latest technologies under “ Lab to land program “, front line demonstration oil and pulses), On-farm trails as well as operational Research project (Alkali Reclamation) are presented as under –

Well developed infrastructural facilities and available human resource are soul of any institution . An institution like KVK which has been created as Agricultural Polytechnic for providing all information at a single point . The important of such facilities become more valuable for imparting vocational training, demonstrating technological performance and their relevance under specific condition. Keeping in view , the KVK has developed strengthened its infrastructural facilities from time to time as per needs of the farming community for providing better knowledge , improving the skill and efficiency and changing the behavioral attitude as well as maximizing the adoption rate of latest technological for improving the agricultural facilities are presented below –

The administrative building consisting of office , staff rooms, home science lab, A.V. Aid room, training room, information centre and community hall have been completed during the period of 1977-80. A Farmers hostel of sixty beds , has been also constructed in 1982 with the financial assistance of Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India.       For maximum utilization of human resources of KVK , residential quarter for all the staff have been constructed in the year 1984-85 with the financial assistance of ICAR. A woman hostel was also constructed by KVK from allied resources in the year 1988 with total capacity of forty beds.      To cater the needs of training and other services, the administrative building was further extended during the year 1995-96 with the financial support of KVK ,ICAR and INDO-DUTCH project. The building consist of four big halls for imparting training , development of library facility and a dining hall with kitchen for farmers.

As it was stated earlier that the problem soils of the district  have been broadly classified into ravines and eroded area along with Gomti and tributaries, area affected with salts and waterlogged area of temporary or permanent nature . Fortunately land held by the KVK was representing all the problem areas which have been developed for imparting skill training in the areas of crops , horticulture, agro-forestry and fish culture. Apart from it, the supporting units like, dairy , poultry, goat keeping, home science, agricultural workshop etc. have been also developed for providing practical training to the farmers and rural youth.