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About Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pali
Krishi Vigyan Kendra is the ground level institute established by Government of India under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, Central Agricultural Universities (CAUs), State Agriculture Universities and Non Government Organizations (NGOs).

The Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Pali, Rajasthan is one of the KVKs established by ICAR – Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Jodhpur in 1992.

Since its establishment Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Pali is working for the benefit of farming community by working in different villages and transferring innovative technologies to the farmers. KVK, Pali trains farmers, farmwomen, rural youths and extension functionaries in different aspects of agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, plant protection and home science. The knowledge of farmers is updated with new agricultural technologies in different aspects of farming and animal husbandry as well as farmwomen on home based agri-entrepreneurships.

Mandates
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pali has set mandates for its activities.


 * Conducting “on-farm testing” for identifying technologies in terms of location specific sustainable land use systems;
 * Organize training to update the extension personnel with emerging advances in agricultural research on regular basis;
 * Organize short and long-term vocational training courses in agriculture and allied vocations for the farmers and rural youths with emphasis on “learning by doing” for higher production on farms and generating self employment;
 * Organize frontline demonstrations on various crops to generate production data and feedback information.

Infrastructure
KVK, Pali has a land of 40 ha. which comprises of administrative building, farmers hostel, different demonstration units and farm. The farmers hostel has 3 dormitories having a capacity to accommodate 60 farmers during training. The KVK is equipped with latest mechanized farming tools and latest information technology tools.

Projects
KVK, Pali has completed several project based on agriculture community and also working on several other.

Demonstrations
KVK, Pali has established different demonstration units like vermi composting, orchards, fruit processing, seed processing etc. for farming community so that during their visits to KVK farm, farmers can explore the possibilities to implement the same technology at their farms.


 * The area under demonstration unit is 1.0 ha and under different crops, it is 20 ha.
 * The area under orchard is 3.0 ha which includes a ber orchard, a lime orchard and a date palm orchard.
 * 15.5 ha area is left under agro-forestry system which includes a number of commercially important forest plants along with some horticultural plants of arid zone.
 * Under green houses fruit orchards like pomegranate, banana and papaya are developed along with other fruit and ornamental plants.
 * Three green houses are also established at the KVK farm under which different plants are prepared in the model nursery.

Publications
KVK, Pali has good collections of publications in its library on package of practice of crops, animal husbandry and other agri-entrepreneurships published by its subject specialists in different subjects.

Reference:

ICAR-CAZRI Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pali, Rajasthan, India