Institutional Capacity Building in Horticulture
Horticultural crops have already demonstrated their role in terms of their potential in increasing income per unit area, generating additional employment opportunities, providing sustainable income to small, marginal and tribal farmers and earning sizeable foreign exchange through exports and savings through import substitution. Increasing agricultural produce is a challenge to meet the growing population. Over the years, horticulture has emerged as one of the potential agricultural enterprise in accelerating the growth of economy.
The goal of Institutional capacity building not only to train scientists, but also to improve the effectiveness of research and innovation systems in developing and delivering new technologies and management practices to farmers producing horticultural crops.
The role of extension education is the country’s nutritional security, poverty alleviation and employment generation programmes is becoming increasingly important. It offers not only a wide range of options to the farmers for crop diversification, but also provides ample scope for sustaining large number of Agro industries which generate huge employment opportunities.
For strengthening local capacities and institutions IHT has emerged as a premiere Institute for capacity development which refers to a process of change in which people, organizations and institutions improve their activities for dissemination of innovative technologies for Horticulture crop production.
IHT undertakes extension programmes which are important to create the necessary changes needed in horticultural systems. We use training programmes, seminars, symposia, workshops, on field demonstrations, media and printed bulletins for extension programmes.
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