• Burdwan District Profile
• Evolution of the KVK
• Host Institute
• Methodology of working
• Front Line Demonstration
• On Farm Testing
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The agricultural extension system of the country was grossly unorganized until the early seventies. As a result of which the boons of the Green revolution did not reach every part of the country. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) constituted a high level committee to review the extension system under the Chairmanship of Dr. Mohan Singh Mehta of Seva Mandir, Udaipur for formulating the institutional design for vocational training in agriculture. This committee suggested the starting of Farm Science Centres, which are now known as Krishi Vigyan Kendras. Thus Krishi Vigyan Kendras are established by ICAR throughout the country and are implemented by ICAR Research Institutes, State Agricultural Universities (SAU) and reputed Non Government Organizations (NGO). The first Krishi Vigyan Kendra was established in 1974 at Pondichery under TamilNadu Agricultural University.

Thus evolved a network of pioneering science based institution, KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, to train the farmers to improve their skills and knowledge, frontline demonstration to establish production potential, on farm testing of the identified technology to identify its location –specificity under various farming systems and training of extension personnel to orient them in the frontier areas of technology development.

Krishi Vigyan Kendra acts as light house to the farming community. The chief objective of the Kendra is to communicate the latest technical knowledge to the farmers through the principles of "Teaching by learning" and "Learning by Doing”.

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Burdwan is one of the 706 KVKs sponsored by ICAR. It was sanctioned and established in April, 2005 under the administrative control of Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres (ICAR), Barrackpore, Kolkata- 700 120 West Bengal. KVK Burdwan is one of the 32 KVKs those under control of ICAR institutes. The KVK was set up at a place namely Bud Bud, around 30 km away from the district headquarter of Burdwan.  Another important township, Durgapur is 28 km. away from the site of KVK in the western side.

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Total land with KVK (ha): 18 ha