Chapter VI RESEARCH AND EXTENSION EDUCATION

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1. (1) The University shall establish an Agricultural Research Organisation. Subject to the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, the University shall carry on research throughout the State of Gujarat directed primarily to the problems of agriculture and allied sciences for the purpose of aiding the development of agriculture and for the benefit of the rural population of the State.
2. (2) The University through its Agricultural Research Organisation shall be the principal agency of control over agricultural research activities of the State of Gujarat.
3. (3) Jurisdiction over research programmes, facilities, personnel and budgets assigned to the Director of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, State of Gujarat, and to such other agencies of the State Government concerned with research of agriculture shall be transferred to the University according to such plans and on such date as may be mutually agreed upon between the Board and the State Government.

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1. (1) The University shall establish an Agricultural Extension Education Organisation which shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, make useful information based upon the findings of research available to farmers and others to help them solve their problems. It shall conduct demonstration and training programmes for the benefit of students and extension workers, and within the area of its constituent units, for the benefit of cultivators and rural people, as well. Increased agricultural production shall be the principal object of all extension activities and these activities shall be co-ordinated with the other functions of the University and other appropriate agencies of the State.
2. (2) The University shall be responsible for the agricultural extension education activities in the State necessary to communicate and demonstrate to cultivators the findings and development of agricultural research on improved practices essential to improve rural living and to increase agricultural production with special emphasis on food production and utilisation.
3. (3) In order that the University may conduct such educational activities the State Government shall transfer to the University the necessary personnel and funds in accordance with a plan to be mutually agreed upon between the Board and the State Government.
4. (4) The Agricultural Extension Education Organisation shall be developed under the guidance of the Director of Extension Education.

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1. (1) In consultation with the appropriate officers of the University the Vice-Chancellor shall be responsible for taking such steps as may be necessary for the full co-ordination of teaching, research and extension education activities of the University.
2. (2) The Vice-Chancellor shall be responsible, working through the appropriate officers and staff of the University, for seeing that conditions are established whereby there is the maximum feasible progress in the development of new information and technology in the natural, physical and social sciences related to agriculture, and the transfer thereof to the teaching curricula and to the educational programmes, thereby leading to their acceptance and adoption where applicable in practice throughout the State.
3. (3) The Vice-Chancellor shall be responsible, working through the appropriate officers and staff of the University, to see that there is an appropriate inter-relation of the different curricula and courses offered in the different faculties of the University so as to avoid un-necessary duplication of functions between faculties and provide the students with the best course offerings and faculty contacts feasible within the University's resources and talents.
4. (4) The University shall develop its programmes of research and extension education keeping in view the needs of the State and provide the appropriate technical support and consultative advice to State Government departments engaged in agricultural development work.