Established in 1986 under the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Extension Project (NAEP), CTI serves as the nodal point of KAU’s HRD activity and is mandated with training administration, documentation, negotiation, liaison, exploring scope for national and international training programmes. The training programmes undertaken by the institute are generally classified into:

Sponsored training - where the course fee is paid by the sponsoring agency

Vocational training - where the course fee is paid by the individual candidates