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Mandate of KVK :
Technology assessment and refinement refers to a set of procedures whose purpose is to develop recommendations for a particular agro climatic situation or location through assessment and refinement of recently released technology through participatory approach. It refers to the process or a set of activities before taking up new scientific information for its dissemination in a new production system.
The field demonstrations conducted under the close supervision of the scientists are called Front line demonstrations (FLDs) because the technologies are demonstrated for the first time by the scientists themselves before being fed in to the main extension system. The main objective of FLDs is to demonstrate latest crop production technologies and its management practices in the farmer’s fields under different agro climatic regions and framing situations.