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HISTORY OF Madhya Pradesh Amateur Archery Association

Modern FITA/Olympic Archery came to India in 1970 before the game had been chosen as part of the Olympic discipline in Munich, West Germany in 1972. Madhya Pradesh Amateur Archery Association has come to existence on 8th August, 1973 with the objective to organize, encourage, promote and control the Sports of Archery in India and to provide ancillary facilities to Archers for training. Right from its inception, Madhya Pradesh Amateur Archery Association is engaged in the upliftment of this ancient game in India.

 

The first National meet under FITA rules was organized in New Delhi in 1973 in which 50 Archers participated. They used bamboo Bow and Arrows made in Meghalya and West Bengal. The Bengal Archers were to the fore with their superior techniques. It took roots in India through the sincere efforts of the then Chief Executive Councilor of Delhi, Prof.Vijay Kumar Malhotra.

 

Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Secretary General Shri Gopesh Mehra introduced Archery in Asia and Asian Archery Federation was formed in Bangkok during the Asian Games in 1978. Shri Malhotra was elected as the first President and Shri P.N. Mukherjee as first Secretary General. India organized the maiden Asian meet in Calcutta in 1980. The game progressed in leaps and bounds until mid-80s when it received a shot in the arm with most archers acquiring modern sophisticated equipment. The taste of frequent International competitions and the interest shown in this and other games by the Sports Authority of India, a number of talented and promising archers emerged on the scene drawn mainly from the rural belt of India. Archers like Smt Krishna Ghatak, Limba Ram, Shyam Lal, Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Lalrem Sanga Changte have brought laurels for the country. They performed well in the Olympic Games at Barcelona (1992) where Limba Ram won ranking among top six archers of the world.

 

 

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1. Assessment, refinement and demonstration of technology/ methodology/products.
2. Collaborate with the State Agricultural University/ Scientist of the Regional Research Station (Saheed Gundadhur Agriculture College and Research Station, Jagadlpur), the state extension personnel in "On-farming testing", refining and documenting the technologies for developing region specific sustainable land use systems.
3. Organize trainings to update the extension personnel within the area of operation with emerging advances in agricultural research on regular basis.
4. Organize long-term vocational training courses in agriculture and allied vocations for the rural youths with emphasis on "learning by doing " for generating self-employment through institutional financing.
5. Organize front-line demonstrations in various crops to generate production data and feedback information


Activities

1. On farm testing to identify the location specificity of technologies in various farming systems
2. Frontline demonstrations to establish production potentials of newly released technologies on farmers’ fields and provide feedback.
3. Training of farmers and farmwomen to update their knowledge and skills in modern agricultural technologies and training of extension personnel to orient them in the frontier areas of technology development.
4. Work as resources and knowledge centre of agricultural technology for supporting initiatives of public, private and voluntary sector for improving the agricultural economy of the district.
5. Create awareness about frontier technologies through large number of extension activities like Farmer fair, Field day, Strategic campaign, Ex-trainees meet, etc.
6. The seed and planting materials produce by the KVKs also be made available to the farmers.
   
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