- 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.
Activities
a. Training : Divyayan KVK endeavors towards addressing the root causes of unemployment in rural tribal villages, through its unique model of residential training programmes to build confidence in rural youths and enable them to launch their own enterprises. There are three types of training programmes, which are offered by the KVK viz. integrated farming, skill oriented specialized courses and NIOS linked multi skill training curriculum with value education at their core.
b. Extension and follow-up Programme
c. Organising Village Level Organisatin Called “ Vivekananda Seva Sangha” : Once Swami Vivekananda had said “ All the wealth in the world can not help one little Indian village if the people are not taught to help themselves”. Acting on this message, our ex-trainees are encouraged to form village level organizations named Vivekananda Seva Sagha (VSS). Extension and village activities are executed through these VSSs. They work collectively for the development of their own village, harnessing the internal potentialities as well as available resources not depending on help from outside. Till date 117 nos. of VSSs have been formed which are successfully functioning in their respective localities.
d. Monthly Meetings : These Meetings are held in the last week or the first week of every month at Divyayan. This provides a forum to the VSSs and Block level N.G.Os (Formed by ex-trainees of Divyayan) functionaries to discuss their achievements and problems in implementing different rural development programmes in their localities. Through these meetings they are given assistance and counselling to implement successfully the different programmes undertaken. Extension programmes, which are to be carried out by Divyayan in the succeeding month, are also finalized during these meetings.
e. Cluster Front Line Demonstration (CFLD) and Front Line Demonstration : The field demonstration conducted under the close supervision of scientists is called Front Line Demonstration, because the technologies are demonstrated for the first time by the scientists themselves before being fed into the main extension system of the state department of agriculture. The main objective of CFLD/FLD is to demonstrate newly released crop production and different technologies and its management practices in the farmers’ field under different agro-climatic region and farming situation.
f. On-Farm Trial (OFT) : Objective of this activity is to assess and refine the technologies based on local problems to best fit the socio-economic condition of the farmers and to identify the production constraints. Around 10 OFTs are conducted in a year.
g. Formation of Self Help Groups : Divyayan not only organized women to form self help groups but also conduct special training programmes for them in different fields related to skill upgradation. drudgery reduction, fruits and vegetables preservation, value addition, mushroom cultivation, piggery, fisheries, poultry and allied activities to empower them economically as well as socially. Alternative employment opportunities for women are generated through such training programmes. Increased income in the hands of rural women ensures better nutrition, better healthcare facilities and education for their children.
This KVK believes that economic empowerment of women with moral and spiritual values in the base will help make them powerful agents of social change. Around 247 SHGs have been involved in income generation activities.
h. Executing Time Bound Projects : Different time bound projects are conducted for development of agriculture and economic status of the people and conservation of soil and water.
- Climate Change Knowledge Network Programme (CCKN)
- Livelihood and Enterprise Development Programme (LEDP)
- Seed Village Programme
- Conservation of Indigenous Variety of Scented Rice Programme Sponsored by NABARD
- Demonstration of Tuber Crops in Collaboration with CTCRI, Bhubaneshwar
- Model Tribal Panchayat Development
- Integrated Waste Land Development Project
- Training and establishment of piggery units on piggery for livelihood generation among Tribal Sponsored by Integrated Tribal Development Agency(ITDA) Govt. of Jharkhand
- Training on Duckery and establishment of Duckery units for livelihood generation Sponsored by Integrated Tribal Development Agency(ITDA) Govt. of Jharkhand
i. Observance of Special Days:
- International Soil Health Day
- International Women Day
- International Yoga Day
- Vigilance Awareness Week
- Technology Week
- Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Day
