Palampur (HP), May 27: Concerned over “unsatisfactory” functioning of some Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is mulling performance based financial assistance to these centres.
Assistant Director General of ICAR, A M Narula, who inaugurated a two-day training-cum-workshop organised at CSK HP Agricultural University Palampur on oil seeds and pulses, expressed his dissatisfaction over working of some KVKs as front line demonstration centres for oil seeds and pulses.
He said ICAR is considering performance based financial assistance to KVKs so that the centres doing well were not starved of funds.
A M Narula, who is also the Zonal Project Director (ZPD) for hills states for oil seeds and pulses, said primary responsibility of the KVKs was to set up front line demonstrations to enable farmers acquaint themselves with the new technologies and help them adopt it.
–Agencies