About the Department

Since its inception, the Department of Extension Education has been actively engaged in teaching Animal Husbandry Extension courses as per the VCI Curriculum in the undergraduate programme. As extension teaching is concerned with farmers' problems and their remedies, the department ensures the involvement of students in different extension activities through outreach programmes such as vaccination camps, animal health camps and farmers' awareness camps in rural areas.

Besides teaching, the Department of Extension undertakes various programmes to transfer appropriate technologies to farmers at the field level. At the early stage of its inception, the department was sanctioned the Lab-to-Land Programme under the ICAR Transfer of Technology Programme. Accordingly, the department organised demonstrations, off-campus training programmes and other extension activities.

The department also established an Animal Diagnostic and Treatment Centre at village level. Presently, the Department of Extension undertakes several extension activities such as on-campus training, demonstrations, rural camps, Kisan Mela and Kisan Gosthi for the welfare of farmers and for improving direct linkage between the department and field-level livestock farming situations.

Training of paravets, vaccination awareness programmes for the control of contagious diseases, adoption of innovations for socio-economic upliftment of livestock farmers and development of livestock entrepreneurial traits among livestock farmers are other important activities of the department.