1. Segmenting CSISA’s Training
Priorities (dealers, service providers,
state extension and KVK’s) and
Potential Role of Certification.
BR Kamboj and Virender Kumar
CIMMYT-India office

2. Training priorities for input dealers
• Trainings should relate to input use
– Seed treatment
– Varietal selection
– Weed management
– Fertilizer management
– Pesticide spray equipments and application technology
– Pest management including insects and diseases
• Training on these aspects should be crop wise
– Rice, wheat, and maize
• Training should be organized twice in a season
– Before onset of season: on first 5 aspects
– During season: pest management
• Literature
– 1 pager/crop on above mentioned aspects in local language
– Monthly message on key management practices of that month through
SMS/email/web (common message developed by KVK’s, SAU, and CSISA
etc.)
• Field exposure to show the performance of best bet crop management
practices through travelling seminar
• Yearly trainings on latest update with respect to
machineries/technology/inputs/crop management etc

3. Training priorities for service providers
• Trainings should focus on
– Machinery operation, handling,
maintenance and repair
– Key management aspects of technology they
are involved in providing services
– Business opportunities/entrepreneurship
• Literature
– 1 pager/technology wise in local language
• Provide contact details of key technical
persons

4. Training priorities for State Department
• Detailed trainings on technical aspects of
key CA-based entry point technology
including machineries and management
• Training on key reasons of yield gaps and
technological interventions to overcome
these gaps
• Trainings on new innovative extension
modules/approaches
• Travelling seminars

5. Training priorities for KVK’s
• Trainings on the aspects identified by
SWOT analysis
• Trainings/on-station experimentation on
cropping system optimization and
component technologies
• Trainings on new innovative extension
modules/approaches
• Travelling seminars

6. Potential role of certification
• Knowledge
• Confidence
• Recognition
• Credibility
• Respect
• Better quality services to the farmers at their door steps
• Business opportunity/professionalism
• Connect to different knowledge sharing
centers/agencies/institutions
For effective implementation, government agencies should be part of
certification process.

7. Potential role of certification
• Knowledge
• Confidence
• Recognition
• Credibility
• Respect
• Better quality services to the farmers at their door steps
• Business opportunity/professionalism
• Connect to different knowledge sharing
centers/agencies/institutions
For effective implementation, government agencies should be part of
certification process.