Realizing the growing importance of information in agricultural development, the Agriculture Information Section (AIS) became operational in 1965 as a separate unit in the Department of Agriculture. This section was renamed as Agriculture Communication Division (ACD) in 1990. In course of restructuring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives in 2000, it was given its current name of Agricultural Information and Communication Center (AICC) and was attached to the Ministry as one of its central units with greater role and responsibility.
AICC is a professional wing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives entrusted to produce agricultural information relevant to farmers, traders, entrepreneurs and professionals and to communicate the information through Radio, Television and Print media. The Center also bears the additional responsibility and challenge of managing and using digital information generated recently by the growing application of personal computer, internet and mobile telephone in modernizing agricultural development in the country.

Vision

Building an organization driven by information and communication technology (ICT) capable of ensuring timely, faster and relevant access to information to facilitate agricultural stakeholders and practitioners for building knowledge based farm communities.

Mission

Serving as a full-fledged Center founded on ICT culture to motivate communities to adopt knowledge-based agricultural systems by fostering greater organizational efficiency and interrelationships among farmers, extension workers, researchers and entrepreneurs.

Organizational Objectives

1. To fulfill the information needs of agricultural practitioners and farm communities through the use of modern information and communication technology.
   
2. To identify, capture, document and disseminate agricultural information and knowledge resources for professionals, stakeholders, producers, processors and traders in easy, transparent and faster ways.
   
3. To motivate farmers and growers using media
   of mass communication to adopt modern farm
   practices in order to increase farm productions.
   
4. To develop networks of agricultural information and communication systems to enhance information sharing within and among stakeholder organizations.
   
5. To help close the digital divide between rich and poor farmers, urban and rural areas through innovative use of ICT in a way to ensure food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable agricultural development.

Major Functions

• Production and broadcast of farm radio programs and agricultural news,
  
• Production and broadcast of video documentaries, agricultural programs and news from Nepal Television,
  
• Publication and distribution of bimonthly agricultural magazine, diary, calendar, booklet, folder and print works.
  
• Agricultural information collection, documentation, maintaining digital library and website updating.
  
• Acquisition and completion of programs that are available under working fund act (WFA).