Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), North and Middle Andaman was established in 2012 .It comes under ATARI Zone – II, Kolkata under the administrative control of Central Island Agricultural Research Institute (CIARI), Port Blair.The prime goal of KVK Nimbudera is to accelerate agricultural and allied production in the north and middle Andaman besides imparting training as per needs and requirements of the farmers, farm women and rural youths including school drop-outs for entrepreneurship development and women empowerment . “Teaching by doing” and “learning by doing” through work experience is the principle methods of imparting skill & training programmes. The mandate of the institution is imparting vocational training to the practicing farmers including, farm women, youth and extension functionaries in improved technologies in the field of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries ,home science and other allied enterprises. It has additional responsibilities of testing and refining the developed technologies and also to conduct front line demonstrations of new technologies in the farmer’s field.

Mandate

• 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 advance in Agriculture Research on regular basis.
• Organise short and long term vocational training courses in agriculture and allied vocations for the farmers and rural with emphasis on "learning by doing" for higher production on framers field and self employment generation.
• Organize Front line demonstration (FLD) on various crops to generate production data and feed back information.

Services

Training for Target Group (s)

The KVK was started functioning from december 2014.During the year 2014-15 a total number of 16 training programmes (vocational) were conducted by the SMS of Agronomy/Extension, Fisheries, Horticulture, Animal Sciences, Home Science, Farm agro forestry and Agricultural Engineering faculties.The major target groups of training were farmers (198), farm women (152) and rural youth (66) for up scaling their knowledge and skills. The training programmes were conducted with the involvement of the Scientists of CIARI and officials of the Development Departments of A&N Administration, to devolve an integrated and holistic approach. While imparting the training, the principles of ‘Teaching by doing’ and ‘Learning by doing’ were thoroughly followed with an objective to have a desirable change in knowledge, skill and attitude improvements. The major training programmes undertaken by the respective faculties were on MAT nursery and SRI methods on paddy, oilseeds and pulses production technology, nursery raising techniques, plant propagation methods, traditional and non-traditional vegetable cultivation methods, multi-tier cropping system methods, backyard poultry farming practices, goatery, piggery, duck farming, fodder cultivation, composite fish culture, integrated fish farming, nutrition and health of women and children.

Staff Profile

S.No.	Name & Designation	Contact No.	Email
1	Dr.B.L.Kasinath Senior Scientist & Head	09476024288 08880481234	blkasinath@gmail.com kashinath.bl@icar.gov.in
2	Dr. Pooja Kapoor SMS (Home Science)	9933235048	poojakapoor.kvk@gmail.com pooja.kapoor@icar.gov.in
3	Er. Manoj Kumar SMS (Agri. Engineering)	9434292335	manojwarm@gmail.com manoj.kumar19@icar.gov.in
4	Shri Debabrata Basantia SMS (Horticulture)	9434263148	debabratabasantia62@gmail.com debabrata.basantia@icar.gov.in
5	Shri Batti Lal Meena SMS (Agronomy)	9531811006	meena_batti@rediffmail.com batti.meena@icar.gov.in
6	Dr. Shardul Vikram Lal SMS (Animal Science)	9531801728	shardullal84@gmail.com shardul.lal@icar.gov.in
7	Dr. Shailesh Kumar SMS (Fisheries Science)	9531874199	fishcoshail@gmail.com shailesh.kumar1@icar.gov.in
8	Shri Tanmai Paul Farm Manager	9531822945	tanuagri1986@gmail.com thanmai.paul@icar.gov.in
9	Shri Prasanta Pradhan Programme Asst.(Computer)	9434268149	prasant.pradhan@gmail.com prasanta.pradhan@icar.gov.in
10	Ravish Kataria Technician-T1	9474278072	ravish4637@gmail.com ravish.kataria@icar.gov.in
11	Sunderam Technician-T1	9933268467	sunderam.1988@gmail.com sunderam@icar.gov.in