Role of MANAGE in Agriculture Development

MANAGE was established in 1987, as the National Centre for Management of Agricultural Extension at Hyderabad, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India as an autonomous institute, from which its acronym MANAGE is derived. Its status was elevated to that of a National Institute in 1992 and re-christened with its present name - the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management. The pioneer institute deals with management education in the field of agricultural and its practices. The institute offers degree course for post graduate aspirants, viz., Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Extension Management (PGDAEM), Diploma in Agricultural Extension Services for Input Dealers (DAESI) and Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agri Business Management) – PGDM (ABM). The NIAEM/MANAGE is an autonomous institute located in the knowledge hub of India – Hyderabad. MANAGE is an ISO 9001:2008 certified institution. This institute supports agriculture and focuses on the current plight of farmers. MANAGE has highly learned professionals as faculties who preach the students and inculcate in them values of ethics and integrity. MANAGE is the Indian response to challenges of agricultural extension in a rapidly growing and diverse agriculture sector. The policies of liberalization and globalization of the economy and the level of agricultural technology becoming more sophisticated and complex, called for major initiatives towards reorientation and modernization of the agricultural extension system. Effective ways of managing the extension system needed to be evolved and extension organizations enabled to transform the existing set up through professional guidance and training of critical manpower. MANAGE is the response to this imperative need.