VISION

Be a leading Centre of Excellence and Resource Agency in the region, in the areas of participatory agro-biodiversity conservation, promotion of genetic literacy, climate and nutri-smart agriculture and sustainable NRM-based livelihoods.

MISSION

Promote sustainable livelihood and food & nutrition security of rural community through developing and demonstrating models for replication, leveraging agriculture for nutrition, women empowerment, grass-root Institution building, training, capacity building and awareness creation, convergence and policy advocacy.

Objectives of the Centre

  • To promote sustainable agriculture and enhance productivity of agriculture crops for livelihood security.
  • To document, characterize and conserve the bio-diversity through promotion of in-situ and ex-situ conservation and peoples biodiversity register.
  • To establish village knowledge centre and village resource centre to disseminate government entitlements and technologies.
  • To demonstrate and train farming communities with low cost appropriate technologies for crop improvement and management.

Goals of the Centre

  • Improvement of socio-economic condition of tribal people.
  • Production enhancement and soil health management in dry land agriculture.
  • Conservation of genetic resources, maintain genetic purity, and safe guard the Intellectual property rights.
  • Skill and Knowledge up-gradation on sustainable agriculture and livelihood security.
  • Reducing food and seed scarcity and maintain nutritional security to reduce malnourishment.