Welcome to Sasya Shyamala Krishi Vigyan Kendra

Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) have been established in India starting from 1978 as a grassroot level Technology Dissemination and Delivery system to the farmers. KVKs are effectively contributing to increasing production and productivity of crops and livestocks and developing entrepreneurship among rural youths. However, it was found to be difficult for a KVK to cover a whole district, particularly the larger districts. In this backdrop, Govt.of India decided to establish additional KVKs in the larger districts of the country. On January 20, 2009 the then Union Agriculture Minister Shri Sharad Pawar announced at the National KVK Conference held at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology to establish 50 additional KVKs in the 50 larger districts in the first phase. Out of these 50 additional Krishi Vigyan Kendras, three were proposed for West Bengal – South 24 Parganas, Burdwan and Murshidabad. However, until 2013, no additional KVK was established. At this juncture, the Director General of ICAR Dr. S. Ayyappan, requested Swami Atmapriyananda ji Maharaj, the then Vice Chancellor of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University – RKMVU (later renamed as Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute – RKMVERI) to establish an additional KVK in the South 24 Parganas district under the aegis of RKMVERI. The MoU for this KVK was signed on February 28, 2013 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi which initiated the establishment of this KVK.

Sasya Shyamala Krishi Vigyan Kendra is located at Arapanch, PO Sonarpur, Dist. South 24 Parganas, Kolkata 700150, four kms away from Sonarpur Railway Station by the side of the Sonarpur – Ghatakpukur Road. Established with enthusiastic and dedicated Subject Matter Specialists in different disciplines SSKVK is now actively engaged in dissemination of technologies to the farmers, farm women and rural youths and development of farm sector in South 24 Parganas district. This is the first of its kind in the Zone-II in order to facilitate providing better technology service to the farming community of the district. It has been vested upon important responsibilities of developing socio-economic condition of farming community of South 24 Parganas district through its mandated activities on organization of on-farm trials based on farmers’ problems, vocational training in agriculture and allied enterprises, frontline demonstration on major cereals, oilseeds, pulses and other enterprises related to agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, animal husbandry, quality seed and planting material production for the farmers.

Jurisdiction of Sasya Shyamala Krishi Vigyan Kendra:

Out of 29 blocks of South 24 Parganas following 14 blocks are under the jurisdiction of ‘Sasya Shyamala’ KVK for its intensive activities: