Directorate at a Glance

Dr. Y.N. Shivalingaiah

Director of Extension

+080-23418883

+09449866904 | 09448586564

de@uasbangalore.edu.in & deuasbangalore@gmail.com

The Directorate of Extension is vested with the responsibility to carry out the extension services in 10 southern districts of Karnataka namely Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru Urban, Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Ramanagara, Hassan, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysuru and Chamarajanagara under its jurisdiction. The Directorate has given more emphasis for ICT enabled extension for accelerated agricultural growth, improved better access to information, development of knowledge resource, cost effective extension delivery, mechanism for efficient feedback system, ensure gender equality, empowerment of small and marginal farmers and stake holders. The technology transfer includes rural development, access to biotechnology, environmental awareness, health, employment and government entities.

Mandates

The Extension Education programmes shall ensure technology assessment and refinement and facilitate adoption of technology based on research findings to farmers and others for accelerated agricultural growth. It shall conduct demonstrations and training programmes for the benefit of various stake holders. Extension shall be coordinated with various units of the University and other appropriate agencies of the centre and the state. The University shall be responsible for developing models of agricultural extension in the state.

Objectives

The prime objectives of Directorate of Extension are as follows

To provide new, dependable, profitable, socially acceptable, ecologically sustainable and timely information to the clients.
To provide feedback on adoption of new technologies by the farmers to research system to examine the problems in adoption and modify/re-orient the technologies, if any
To device ways and means for improving the quality and effectiveness of extension work.

Functions

In order to accomplish the above stated objectives, the Directorate of Extension is carrying out the following functions.

Serving advisory services to field extension functionaries and farming community
Conducting farm trials on new research findings as well as establish front line demonstrations
Organizing training programmes to extension professional as well as farmers on latest farm technologies
To stimulate research and impart teaching

To fulfil the above objectives, the Directorate has the following Extension Units:

1. Staff Training Unit (STU) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
2. Farmers Training Institute (FTI) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
3. Farm Information Unit (FIU) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
4. Agricultural Technology Information Centre (ATIC) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
5. Bakery Training Unit (BTU) at Hebbal, Bengaluru.
6. National Agricultural Extension Project (NAEP) at GKVK, Bengaluru and Mandya
7. Distance Education Unit (DEU) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
8. State Agriculture Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
9. Agricultural Sciences Museum(ASM) at GKVK, Bengaluru.
10. KrishiVigyanKendras (KVK) at Hassan, Bengaluru Rural, Chikkaballapura, Ramanagara, Tumakuru-1Chamarajanagara and Mandya.
11. Extension Education Units (EEU) at Mysuru and Kolar(Chinthamani).

Organizational Structure of the Directorate of Extension:

The flow chart provides the organizational set up of the Directorate of Extension at the University level.