INSTITUTION VILLAGE LINKAGE PROGRAMME (IVLP)

Technology Assessment and refinement through Institution Village Linkage Progamme (IVLP) is one of the recent programme of the ICAR emphasizing on technology transfer, refers to the process or a set of activities that must happen it new scientific agricultural information is put to use in any farm production system. In view of three districts types of agriculture, viz. commercial green revolution and complex, diverse and technology assessment and refinement with the emphasis on stability and profitability with environment concerns for well defined farm production system and appropriate for value addition in case of commercial for production system. Thus, IVLP is a programme for generating appropriate technologies by refining and assessing innovation generated by scientists knowledgeable about their respective disciplines however, various factors operating in the farm production system of small farmers hitherto not considered by scientists, affect adoption process. IVIP, therefore, has following specific objectives:

1. To introduce technological intervention with emphasis on stability   and sustainability along with productivity of small production system.
2. To introduce and integrate the appropriate technologies to sustain technological interventions and their integration to maintain productivity and profitability taking environmental issues into considerations in comparatively well defined production systems.
3. To introduce and integrate the appropriate technologies to increase the agriculture productivity with marketable surplus in commercial farm production systems.
4. To facilitate adoption of appropriate post - harvest technologies for conservation and on - farm value addition of agriculture products, by products and wastes for greater economic dividend and national priorities.
5. To facilitate adoption of appropriate technologies for removal of drudgery increased efficiency and higher income of farm woman.
6. To monitor socio-economic impact of the technologies intervention for different production systems.
7. To identity extrapolation domains for new technology modules based on environmental characterization at meso and mega levels.

The IVLP is being implemented through ICAR institute headquarters, SAU_S headquarters, and Regional Research Stations, Zonal Research Stations of the ICAR institute, SAVs and KVKs. The centers selected for the purpose have required infrastructural facilities, viz. in terms of team of scientists, laboratory, transport; each centre has to adopt a village or cluster of villages representing of the district.