Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute

Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute, Hisar is a public funded agricultural and farm training and testing institute located at Sirsa road, Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is one of the four such institutes established by the Government of India's Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It had imparted training to students hailing from all over India and 27+ other nations and annual "Krishi Darshan Expo" is held at institute in October.
History.
In 1955, for the adoption of mechanized cultivation a Government of India initially set up the "Central Agricultural Machinery Utilization Training Centre" at Budhni in Madhya Pradesh. Three more
regional Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institutes were set up at Hisar (1963) for the northern region, Garladinne in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh (1983) for the southern region and Biswanath Chariali in Assam (1990) for the eastern region. It is most important farm machinery training centre in the state of Haryana. It has 153.20 hectares campus. It offers testing, training and workshop in farm machinery. Facilities include farm, ~200 equipment, classrooms, library, rest house (8 bed), dispensary and hostel (150 students). It trains nearly 2,000 farmer, managers, academics and students every year.