Krishi Vistar Sadan

The Directorate of Extension was set up in 1958 in the wake of launching of Community Development Programmes and National Extension Service throughout the country in 1953.

Presently, apart from functions of transfer of technology and dissemination of knowledge and information to the farming community; overseeing and supporting the countrywide extension training infrastructure including training and capacity building of Senior and Middle level extension functionaries in the country, DOE is mandated to and promote Reforms in Agricultural Extension Sector by assisting and encouraging the State Departments of Agriculture in organizing, maintaining and operating professional extension services in the country.