Mandate & Objectives

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Capacity Building

Objectives of the Institute

IARI Assam is unique in its structure, functioning, mandate and objectives. It is one of its kind in the country, established in the North-Eastern region with aims and objectives specific to the North-Eastern states. The major mandates, as stated in the EFC Memorandum 2021–26, are:

  • Promote excellence, foster high-standard research for holistic agrarian development and orient the educational programme towards future needs and opportunities in South-East Asia
  • Strengthen formal and non-formal training to promote entrepreneurial skills for commercialisation of agriculture in the region through diploma courses in the line of polytechniques
  • Conservation and utilisation of biotic resources of North-East India for higher farm productivity and industrial uses
  • Acid soil management vis-à-vis development of crop varieties and technologies suitable for acidic soil of North-East India
  • Productive utilisation of water resources through multi-disciplinary research on excess water management through drainage, water harvesting, and micro-irrigation, for enhancing Water Use Efficiency (WUE) and higher factor productivity in agriculture of North-East India
  • Develop appropriate cropping systems to attain multiple cropping for increasing productivity with long-term sustainability in the North-Eastern states
  • Develop integrated farming system models through appropriate recycling of bio-resources to promote organic agriculture, keeping in view the specific requirements of the region
  • Develop horticulture and animal husbandry-based diversified farming system modules to promote rural entrepreneurship
  • Effective post-harvest management and value addition using appropriate food engineering protocols to enhance farm income and promote agribusiness
  • Market and policy research to augment income of different stakeholders in agriculture
  • Generate innovative extension models, dovetail them to developmental models, and disseminate them through KVKs, state agricultural universities and state agricultural extension and other development departments of North-East India
  • Promote client-oriented on-farm and farm innovation research and technology assessment, refinement and transfer through participatory approaches on convergence mode
  • Foster development in communication research and linkages with rural development programmes, and strengthen micro-planning through inter-departmental and participatory approaches
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