Extension and Outreach
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25,000
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Our Approach
Extension and outreach are at the heart of ICAR-IARI Assam’s mandate. The institute’s goal is to generate innovative extension models, link them to developmental models, and disseminate them through KVKs, state agricultural universities, and state extension departments. All outreach is conducted through participatory approaches, with farmers as partners rather than passive recipients.
Training Programmes
The institute conducts skill-oriented training programmes with a focus on women farmers, tribal communities, and youth in agriculture. A one-week training on millet cultivation practices was organized from 20–26 March 2025.
Training Topics
Crop management
Fish health & aquaculture
Value-added product preparation
Millet cultivation practices
Value-Added Products Training
A particularly impactful initiative covered hands-on preparation of value-added products directly targeting the livelihood improvement of tribal women’s self-help groups.
Assam Lemon
RTS drinks, juice concentrate, pickles
Fish Products
Fish pickle, fish cutlet, fish snacks
Millet-based
Millet food items for livelihood improvement
One-week programme on millet cultivation practices in the Eastern Himalayan Zone
Farmer-Scientist Interactions & Input Distribution
Farmer-Scientist Interaction cum Input Distribution Programme
27 January 2025
Presided by
- Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director
Participants
- 110 farmers (including 36 women)
Districts
- Dhemaji and Lakhimpur
National Fish Farmers Day — Input Distribution
10 July 2023
Fish seed distributed
- 25,000 (to regional farmers)
Lemon saplings
- 500 saplings distributed
Occasion
- National Fish Farmers Day
- Knapsack sprayers
- Hybrid maize seeds
- Ridge gourd seeds
- Bhendi seeds
- Cow pea seeds
- Cucumber seeds
- Methi seeds
- Coriander seeds
- Spades
Workshops & Awareness
One-Day Workshop on Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security in North-East India
World Fisheries Day — 21 November 2023
Attendees
50 fish farmers, fishery development officers, KVK personnel, and college faculty
3 progressive fish farmers recognised with certificates, quality fish seeds, and agricultural lime
One-Day Workshop on Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security in North-East India
World Fisheries Day — 21 November 2023
Attendees
50 fish farmers, fishery development officers, KVK personnel, and college faculty
3 progressive fish farmers recognised with certificates, quality fish seeds, and agricultural lime