Given the daunting challenge of feeding over one billion population and to give agriculture the desired boost, Government of India came up with large scale projects such as Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, National Food Security Mission, National Horticulture Mission and Ushering Green Revolution in Eastern Region to name a few. With the funds being made available for development of agriculture, the issue remains of effective execution, as organisations in the State Government are short of manpower to alone handle large scale intervention projects. It therefore underlines the need for undertaking large projects under the above schemes.
Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development, which is a large national non Governmental organisation in agriculture and rural development and whose Management Board is headed by Dr. MS Swaminathan, has come forward to propose major interventions in agriculture sector in different States under various Central and State schemes in collaboration with public research and development institutions, wherein the front role being played by public institution, to execute development projects to ensure that accelerated pace of growth in agriculture.