Lohardaga district of Jharkhand was selected as ATMA district under extension reforms programmes Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. An autonomous institution registered under society act in the name of Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) to Carry out the project activities in collaboration with different line departments like Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries Plant protection along with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, NGO and representative of various stoke Holder of the agriculture production system the strategic research and extension plan for Giridih was prepared fallowing the participatory methodology to reflected the issues needs and expectation of farming community .the main steps fallowed for preparation of Strategic Research and extension Plan (SREP) are as fallows.
The strategic research extension plan basically has two Sections namely “Diagnostic” section and ‘Strategic section’. The diagnostic section has two subsections namely information and analysis. In the information sub section, information from the different line departments gathered and recorded along with the detailed data of the representative village under each AES.
