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Atari Address- ICAR-ATARI Zone-I Ludhiana PAU Campus Ludhiana, Punjab

Host Institute Name- G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Dist.Pantnagar, Uttarakhand

Pin Code- 244713

Preview- "The agropedia team from IIT-Kanpur organized a training programme at KVK Kashipur on 28 September 2011. The agropedia team aims to create awareness on two websites KVK-Net (Krishi Vigyan Knowledge-Networks) and vKVK (virtual Krishi Vigyan Kendra) especially designed for the KVK experts. We are distinguishing between a social network and a knowledge network. At Kashipur, 5 KVK  experts participated in the training programme. The agropedia team included two agricultural experts Dr. Sharwan Shukla and Suneel Pandey.

Suneel Pandey of IIT-K gave demonstration on KVK-Net portal (Krishi Vigyan Knowledge -Networks) and vKVK (virtual Krishi Vigyan Kendra). KVK-Net is an Agricultural Knowledge sharing platform which is sponsored by ICAR and is developed by ZPD-4 and IIT- Kanpur. It is meant for the experts at KVK and has interaction tools like Blogs, Discussion Board, Event, Community, Chat and Private message. KVK-Net is a platform designed for the experts at KVKs for sharing information and experiences and where the experts of one region can interact with the experts of other region. Currently, it is launched in U.P and Uttaranchal region only. After, its success it is planned to extend to the other states of India also. On the other hand, vKVK is a platform that connects KVKs with farmers through internet and mobile technology. It has SMS and Voice messages facility which facilitates effective and efficient functioning of KVKs as an agro-advisory service provider."