About National Institute Of Agricultural Extension Management

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.

MANAGE offers its services in 5 streams. They are:

• Consultancy
• Management Training
• Management Education
• Management Research
• Information and Documentation services

The institute is located on a 16 hectare campus in the serene rural surroundings of Rajendranagar, 15 km away from Hyderabad city. Prominent educational, training and research institutions on agriculture and rural development in close vicinity of MANAGE are the Acharya N.G.Ranga Agricultural University ( ANGRAU ), the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management( NAARM ), and the National Institute of Rural Development ( NIRD ).

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:

• Starting a 2-year Post-Graduate Programme in Agri-business Management open only to the graduates in agricultural and allied technology areas, perhaps the only such programme so far in the country.
• Starting the first ever 1-year Post-Graduate Programme in Agricultural Extension Management.
• Designing the ambitious Distance Learning System for farmers' skill development, integrating the widest possible range of methodologies from direct skills training of farmers to satellite transmission of instruction.
• Developing the first complete multi-media interactive learning packages on Watershed Development and Rainfed Rice Cultivation.
• Developing the completely user-driven diagnostic expert system on Rice Pests and Diseases.