The National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, popularly known as MANAGE, is an apex national institute set up in 1987 as an autonomous society under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. MANAGE is the Indian response to the challenges of management in a rapidly growing agricultural sector. As a management institute, MANAGE has a mandate to assist the State Governments, the Government of India and other public sector organizations in effective management of their agricultural extension and other agricultural management systems. MANAGE is a nodal institute for conducting International Programmes and organizing study visits for foreign delegates in the above areas.
Within our overall mandate, we at MANAGE regard our mission as Facilitating the Acquisition of Managerial and Technical skills by Extension Officers, Managers, Scientists and Administrators in all sectors of Agricultural economy to enable them to provide most effective support and services to Farmers and Fishermen for practicing Sustainable Agriculture. The task of facilitating the modernization of India's agricultural extension system is far beyond the capabilities of a single institution. As an apex institution, therefore, MANAGE functions as a pace-setter, developing system designs and models of professional activities for other, state level institutions to adopt. Sharing these experiences to enable other institutions to adapt and adopt these innovations is one of our core concerns. To be counted among the most pioneering, innovative, farmer-focused and self-supporting agricultural management institutes in the world. We strive constantly to actualize these values in our functioning. It may perhaps be useful, as a brief summing up, to have a quick look at
how we seek to attain these core values embedded in our vision. We are proud of being pioneers in:
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Our collective creativity has brought about several innovations in the design and development of each of our pioneering activities. Even in our regular activities, we have applied our core values of user friendliness and self-sufficiency and overcome physical and financial constrains through innovative approaches and methodologies such as:
Our concern for farmer-focus reflects in the approach to all our professional services.
Our determination to achieve financial self-reliance is an outcome of our own need for functional autonomy and the Government's policy to encourage self-sufficiency by institutions hitherto fully funded by the Government. We hope that in a few years we would be able to generate internal resources sufficient to meet all our operational costs. To this end, we have taken the following steps:
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