In order to adopt improved agricultural technology there is a need of trained manpower, education and training for the rural youth, entrepreneurship development for self-employment and to achieve these objectives University has established Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Shirgaon (Ratnagiri) and Karjat (Raigad) with the financial assistance from Indian Council of Agriculture Research – ICAR, New Delhi. Both the KVKs are helping the farmers to solve their problems.

In the district where there is no KVK, the concept of remandating ZRSs for taking up the additional functions of KVK was operationalised. Resultantly, there are such 53 remandated ZARS-KVKs in the country. With the view to strengthen the Zonal Research Stations, to take up the additional functions of KVK, a remandated KVK has been established in January 2000 under National Agricultural Technology Project at Zonal Agricultural Research Station, Karjat, Dist. Raigad. It is one of the four such ZAR-KVKs, in Maharashtra.