Journal of Agricultural Extension Management
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Utilisation of Information Sources by the Tribal Farmers in Rampachodavaram Agency Area : A Micro Study
Get PDFCommunication plays a vital role in all social changes. Studies in India and elsewhere have pointed the need for an \u27Effective Communication Strategy \u27 to enable research results to reach the farmer\u27s fields without much time lag. It is obvious, therefore, that the change from traditional to modern ways of life essentially involves communication of new ideas and their unhesitating acceptance by people. For this purpose, various communication media ranging from the sophisticated TV to the common and casual ones like interpersonal channels have to be utilize
Strategies for Management of Change in Agricultural Extension
Get PDFChange is the only constant in our lives. The end product of managing change in agriculture is to increase the capacity of extension education clientele to respond to the changes impacting them and their businesses and organization
Problems Faced by Farm Women in Managing Enterprises
Get PDFThe contribution of women in the family and to the national economy has been grossly under estimated and even unrecognised. The Human Development Report (UNDP, 1995) revealsd that women\u27s economic contributions are undervalued to the tune of US$ 11 trillion a year internationally. Sen (1987) argues that the perceived contribution of women as perceived by both men and women is often lower than their \u27actual contribution\u27 on account of social norms, the form and nature of work and the perception of legitimacy. In both rural and urban areas of developing countries, women are important contributors to the economic support of their households. Data from man y countries show that the poorer the households, the more the women work for income, and the larger the proportion of household income derived from women\u27s earnings. In some landless households in India, for instance, women are often the major or even the sole income earners in their households (Agarwal, 1988). The rise in the number of households supported solely by women is an important variable explaining the \u27feminisation of poverty\u27 among rural poo
Role of institutions and institutional constraints in watershed programmes : a case study of Karkara watershed, Hazaribagh, Jharkand
Get PDFA watershed programme is a multi-disciplinary programme. Such programmes requires an integrated approach because they include components that are the responsibility of several agencies. Problems of land mismanagement occur on upland areas because of the inappropriate use of farming technology. Cultivation of steep slopes should be tolerated to some extent because of over population, but appropriate technology should be introduced to poor farmers who live in the remote areas of upland watershed. Bench technology and alley cropping, for example, can be introduced in a practical way on model farms which will encourage their adoption by upland farmers in expansion area
Farmers’ preferences for extension technologies under social forestry and farm forestry in Karnataka
Get PDFThe forest cover in India is dwindling at an alarming rate. The indiscriminate plunder of forests has reduced India\u27s forest cover from 23 per cent of total land area in 1951 to 10.7 percent today, the reasons being the increasing population and that of cattle head and their pressure on forests for food, fuel and fodde
Establishing and strengthening farmers organizations
Get PDFHistorically, extension has mainly involved technology transfer, with the village extension worker (VEW) transferring knowledge from research stations to farmers by using individual, group and mass media methods. More recently, extension has been asked to play a "Technology development role" by linking research with community group needs and helping to facilitate appropriate technology development. It is in the historical context that many government agencies developed national polices for rural development and designed a policy framework to help rural people become organized so that the delivery of services could be channelled through various types of farmer organizations or groups. Well-meaning policies also provided blue-print structures for farmer organizations (FO) in the form of co-operatives and commodity organizations in order to provide various input making and educational services to the farmer
Perceived Characteristics of Innovation affecting the Adoption of Agricultural Technology among Farmers of Osun State, Nigeria
Get PDFAgricultural technologies are generated by agricultural institutions for onward transmission to the farmers for their use. The agricultural technology being developed and promoted are in the area of farm machinery, new breeds of livestock, new varieties of crops, new farm chemicals and new techniques of productio
Excel-Parle-Farmers: a case of Partnership
No full textEven after 59 years of independence, the quality of life of the Indian farmer has not improved as much as expected. The reasons for such a situation are not too far to seek. The terms of trade have never been favourable to agriculture and hence there has been no capital formation in the sector, which eventually resulted in lack of infrastructure creation leaving agriculture as a non-remunerative enterprise with absolutely stunted growth. Under these circumstances it is only towards the end of 10th plan period, the first time in the history of independent India, that the growth in Agriculture has recorded a rate of 1.8 percent against the projected annual growth rate of 4 percent. Thanks to the green revolution (37 years ago in late sixties) the country is able to reach self-sufficiency in food grains. In the last one decade the number of farmers\u27 suicides have risen, water table has dropped, crop yields are stagnant, cost of farm inputs, implements, diesel have increased, land holdings fragmented and credit flow is scarce clutching the farmer in an all-round tra
Relative Effectiveness of Extension Teaching Methods in retention of knowledge by Farm Women
Get PDFResearch institutes and other organizations engaged in agricultural research give out many ideas, new technologies and innovations of interest to the farming community. An innovation may be a new variety of a crop, breed of animal/ poultry, a new implement or a method to prepare a processed product. These technologies cannot be locked within the four walls of the laboratories, where they originated. They need to be transferred to the ultimate users of the technology, i.e. farmers or homemakers. However there is a wide gap between technology development, dissemination and adoption (Khanna, 197
Utilisation of Agricultural Research and Extension Services by Rainfed Farmers
Get PDFAgricultural research and extension are the two main interventions introduced in the country for transforming the agricultural sector over the last six decades. A massive infrastructure of research and extension, with central Institutions, Agricultural universities, KVKs and the departments of agriculture, has been created across the country to develop and transfer the technologies suitable to the farming communities. However the crucial aspect is the extent of utilization of these technologies and services by the farming community. This is especially important considering the fact that a majority of the farmers operate rainfed farming systems in critical, diversified, risk prone zones. Keeping these aspects in view the present study was undertaken with the following objective