::: LOK BHARTI - A Rural Revolution :::

w	To make up the deficit : In the beginning the institution used to get fixed grant. Then it was 70%. From 1984, 100% grant is being given. From 1953 to 1984 the deficit in the grant was made up from the income of agriculture.
w	Maintenance of the infrastructure: Institutional buildings, repairs thereof, health care, roads, water supply etc. require money to be spent every year. These expenses are expected to be met from the income of agriculture.
w	Practical training of agriculture: In the four educational sections, the main craft is agriculture. Besides the experiments, demonstrations and subject- teaching, a separate agriculture section is necessary.
w	Extension : It is an important task of agriculture section to take new seeds, new methods and systems, new crops etc. produced or researched elsewhere to the surrounding areas as also to make experiments, to hold demonstrations, to sell seeds etc.

Experiments And Demonstrations

In order to acquaint the students coming from all over Gujarat with various crops, and to provide them experience to take care of those crops, many experiment and demonstration are carried out as under

w	Cereal Crops : Bajri, Jovar, Wheat, maize.
w	Pulse Crops : Moong (green grun), Back Grum, Gram, Tuver, Val, Choli.
w	Oil-seeds Crops : Tal, groundout, Soyabean, Sunflower.
w	Cash rops : Cotton, Castor, Mustard.
w	Spicy crops : Cumin, Coriander seeds, Isabgul.
w	Fruit-tree crops : Mango, Chikoo, Coconut, Custard Apple, Berries.
w	Vegetable Crops : Brinjal, Chilli, Tomato, Gourd, Ladies finger, Raddish, Carrot.
w	Fodder Crops : Rajko, Maize, Jowar, Oats, Rajka-Bajari