Jagatsinghpur District is located in the East Coast of Odisha, surrounded by Kendrapada District in North-East, Puri District and Bay of Bangal in South, Cuttack District in West and Bay of Bengal in East. This District is situated in between latitude of 20 degree to 21 degree North and longitude of 84 degree to 87 degree 3’ East. The District is also surrounded by River system the Mahanadi and Paika in North and Devi in the South West. Due to its geographical situation, the District is congenial and prone to occurrence of various natural calamities like Flood, Cyclone or both and even Drought. The incidence of drought situation is also experienced in occasional year due to erratic behavior of Rainfall. It is one of the thickly populated costal Districts
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra Jagatsinghpur was established during the year 2005. The center is working as district level resource center for technology assessment, refinement and demonstrates the need based location specific technology and popularizing the same among the farmers of the district. The KVK is also performing its activities in association and in coordination with different agencies working in the district. It also plays vital role for the capacity building of farmers, farmwomen, rural youth and field level extension functionaries through skill oriented training. Krishi Vigyan Kendra Jagatsinghpur is also supplies qualitative seeds and planting materials to the farmers for boosting agricultural people. Due to the sincere effort of scientists of the
