About US


In early Sixties, when Ranchi and its adjoining districts were in the grip of severe drought, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, organised a relief work for the distressed poor. During that period it was strongly realized that unless the poor and illiterate farmers are trained in need based agriculture and allied technologies supported by group action, they can not be made self-reliant and also would never be able to counter similar adverse condition in future. In order to fulfill the above requirements ‘Divyayan’(meaning Divine Way), a novel integrated rural development model, intended to worship God in man, was conceived and finally launched by this centre in 1969

Divyayan (A residential training centre for tribal and rural youth in agriculture and related activities), was recognized by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in the year 1977.

It was awarded as the best KVK at National level, by ICAR, New Delhi for the period 1996-97 and for the period 2016-17.

The major objectives of Divyayabn KVK is to organize need based and skill oriented training programmes for rural youth, practicing farmers and farm women by the principles of “Learning by doing”. Different activities like long term and short term residential training programmes, on farm testing (OFTs), front line demonstrations (FLDs), Kisan Melas, different awareness programmes, audio-visual programmes are conducted by the KVK for transferring technologies related to agriculture and allied trades.

 

Mandates 

 

  • Organize short term and long term residential training courses in agricultural and allied sectors for farmers and rural youths with the emphasis on learning by doing for higher production on farms and generating self employment.
  • Conducting on farm testing for identifying technologies in terms of location specific sustainable land use system.
  • Organize trainings to update the extension personnel with emerging advances in agricultural research on regular basis.
  • Organize front line demonstrations on various crops on proven technologies to generate production data and feed-back information.
  • Work as resource and knowledge centre of agricultural technology for supporting initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector for improving the agricultural economy of the district.