Contextual reasoning approach:
The Institution Village Linkage Programme was conceived by ICAR as part of a broader push, through the 1990s, to make farm research more participatory by testing technologies directly in farmers' fields instead of only on research stations. This shift coincided with the wider adoption of participatory and farming-systems research approaches in Indian agricultural extension during the mid-1990s, well after ICAR's earlier station-based Lab-to-Land programme of the 1970s and 80s, but before the more formal Agricultural Technology Management Agency framework that emerged around 2005. Placed on this timeline, IVLP's launch fits the mid-1990s, specifically 1995, rather than the earlier 1987 or the later 2000/2005 dates tied to subsequent extension reforms.