The Extension Education Institute (EEI), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, established in 1962, is a premier regional training institute dedicated to enhancing the competencies of middle-level extension personnel across Southern India. It is financed by the Directorate of Extension, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, and functions under the administrative control of Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural University (PJTAU).
EEI offers efficient, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to address the emerging challenges in agriculture and allied sectors by designing and fine-tuning need-based training programmes for officials of the line departments in its client States and Union Territories. The Institute specializes in catering to the training needs of middle-level extension functionaries from the agri. and allied departments—Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Sericulture, Agricultural Engineering, Forestry, Industries, Agricultural Marketing & Agril. Business, Soil & Water Conservation, Seed and Organic Certification, ATARIs, Sugar, State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), and State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institutes (SAMETIs)—of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, and the Union Territories of Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep. In addition, trainers from Farmers Training Centres (FTCs), Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), and Master Trainers from PJTAU are also trained at this Institute.
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Smt. Shije Varghese has developed an innovative technique- ‘Bio hi-tech oyster mushroom cultivation house’ which ensures year long production of mushroom without any microbial contamination. “2 hours of work every shed of about 500 square feet can earn a decent income of Rs. 10000/- a month”.
A resident of Nuthimadugu village, Kambadhru mandal of Ananthapur district, Andhra Pradesh says that “We have grown many crops in our 2.5 acre farm which yielded very low. Slowly our economic condition deteorated in that crisis, officers from department of Sericulture encouraged us to start sericulture and department has given subsidies for construction of rearing hourse, verandah and shoots etc.
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