What it does: The aim of the institute is to instil managerial and technical skills to Extension Officers, managers, scientists and administrators in the agricultural economy, to enable them to provide support and services to farmers and fishermen for practising sustainable agriculture.
Vision: To be counted among the most pioneering, innovative, user-friendly and self-supporting agricultural management institutes in the world.
Mission: Facilitating the Acquisition of Managerial and Technical skills by Extension Officers, Managers, Scientists and Administrators in all sectors of the Agricultural economy to enable them to provide the most effective support and services to Farmers and Fishermen for practising Sustainable Agriculture.
MANAGE was established in 1987, as the National Centre for Management of Agricultural Extension at Hyderabad, by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India as an autonomous Institute, from which its acronym ‘MANAGE’ is derived. In recognition of its importance and expansion of activities all over the country, its status was elevated to that of a National Institute in 1992 and re-christened to its present name i.e., National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management. MANAGE is the Indian response to challenges of agricultural extension in a rapidly growing and diverse agriculture sector. The policies of liberalization and globalization of the economy and the level of agricultural technology becoming more sophisticated and complex called for major initiatives towards reorientation and modernization of the agricultural extension system. Effective ways of managing the extension system needed to be evolved and extension organizations were enabled to transform the existing set-up through professional guidance and training of critical manpower. MANAGE is the response to this imperative need.