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Introductions

ICAR has considered the foundation as one of the NGOs for technology assessment, refinement and demonstration and sanctioned Krishi Vigyan Kendra during April 2005 and named as Saraswathi Krishi Vigyan Kendra (SKVK). The SKVK has been implementing various activities with well established physical, manpower (10 technical and 6 administrative staff) and infrastructural facilities like administrative building with well equipped audio visual aids, conference hall, soil and water testing lab, plant health clinic, information centre with e-connectivity, latest scientific journals and books with well equipped library (550 sq. m.), farmers hostel with the capacity to accommodate 50 to 100 participants (305 sq. m.) and staff quarters (400 sq. m.).  The Senior Scientist & Head  is incharge of day-to-day activities supported by 6 Subject Matter Specialists in areas like Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Agronomy, etc.

Kendra has established  a scientific model farm (250 ha.) having  organically certified crops like  mango, amla, sapota, cashew nut, guava, and annual crops of paddy, maize, jowar, pearl millet, finger millet, sesame and groundnut. Also having the demonstration units like dairy (350 animals), sheep (200 Nos), organic poultry (200 Nos.), organic sericulture (100 dfl), vermicompost production (50 tonnes per annum), biogas (6 Nos.), azolla production (200 kg /day), bio inputs production (5000 lt/ month), fish pond (50 cents), plant propagation, horticulture nursery (12000 seedlings per year), meteorological observatory, modern and advanced machinery for cultural and plant protection

News & Events


  • Skill Training - March 2021
  • Women's Day - 08.03.2021
  • Organic Fair - 02.03.21
  • Training on Vegetable nursery Feb 2021
  • Diagnostics Visit – Feb 21
  • Organic farming - 20,21 - Nov - 2021
  • World Soil Day - 05.12.2020
  • weather based crop management technologies - 22.12.20


 

 

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