Journal of Agricultural Extension Management
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Farmer Participatory Problem Identification: a case study of Karnal District, Haryana
Get PDFAdequate food grain production (212 million tonnes) along with sufficient buffer stock (70 million tonnes) is a testimony of an effective agricultural research and extension system in India. This success can be attributed to the relentless efforts made by the scientists, extensionists, farmers and development agencies towards agricultural development. The ultimate goal of the National Agricultural Research System in India is to develop the most suitable technologies for the end-users through its multi-location research. Further, technological advancement in agriculture is aimed at increasing production efficiency with higher returns to the Indian farmer
Wealth ranking and livelihood analysis for microwatershed development
Get PDFIntegrated watershed management is an interdisciplinary approach aiming at rational utilization of natural resources while achieving equity in socio economic development of all sections of the community for increasing productivity of dry lands on a sustainable basis. (HP Singh and T K Bhati 1993). Emphasis has been laid upon the socio economic status of poor on par with rich in watershed development under OPAP programs of Ministry of Rural development .The study was aimed at assessing the real poor and livelihood patterns of all economic groups through PRA techniques of wealth ranking and livelihood analysi
Changing perspectives in extension management
Get PDFManagement of Agricultural Extension as a key activity has been in formal practice since the last five decades in India. During this period it has passed through various stages of transformation depending upon the requirement of the situation, the personnel managing the systems, the policy makers and their understanding, the programme planners and their capacity to understand, the implementers of the projects and programmes apart from the demands of the farming communit
A Study on Impact of “DAESI” Programme on Input Dealers in Andhra Pradesh
Get PDFThe Public Extension service by itself is not enough to handle the multifarious demands of the farming community and is being supplemented by private extension through agribusiness companies, input dealers, NGOs, farmers\u27 organizations, etc. About 2.8 lakh agri-input dealers are operating in rural areas in the country. Though not equipped with adequate knowledge, they have become one of the important sources of farm information to the farming community. At the all India level the input dealers stand second (13.1 %) in accessibility to the farming community for providing information on modern technologies (NSSO-2003), first being the progressive farmers. Among the states the farm-households accessing information through \u27input dealers\u27 was highest in West Bengal (36%), followed by Andhra Pradesh (30%) and Gujarat (24%) (NSSO-2003
Village Based Seed Banks in Andhra Pradesh: a Case Study
Get PDFThe great majorities of the world\u27s food crops are annual species for which seed must be sown each season to establish a new crop. Consequently, seeds are the fundamental biological component of agricultural production. Agriculture in India is over 5000 years old. Farmers have been breeding, selecting and collecting enough seeds, all these years to meet their requirement. The very survival of Indian agriculture for centuries is a testimony to the sound wisdom on seed production and storage being nurtured by the agrarian community. These systems have been variously called a farmer-managed seed system (Bal and Douglas, 1992); Informal seed system (Cromwell et al 1992), traditional seed system and local seed system (Almekinders et al., 1994). But, constant rising population increased pressure on food grain production, is a great task before the agricultural scientists to achieve. In order to achieve the projected demand, quality seed of improved cultivars is the pre-requisite. Improved seed is a catalyst for making other inputs cost-effective. In spite of many efforts, seed supply particularly of food grain crops is a serious concern till today. More than 80% of crops in developing countries are sown from seed stocks selected and saved by farmers across developing countries (Osborne and Faye 1991; Jaffe and Srivastava 1992; Almekinders et al. 1994) and Banerjee (1984) stated that more than 85 percent of total seed sown in India is produced by farmers. In Semi-arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh, 80% of food-feed crops seed is from farmers own saved seed (Ravinder Reddy et al. 2007). Quality seed availability is only 12 percent of the total seed used for sowing each year. Hence, large area under food grain crops is still sown with seeds saved by farmers. Experimental evidence is there that cereal crops give 10-20 percent less yield per ha when farmers use their own saved seed. With simple calculation, one could say that about 20-30 million tones food grain production may be added in our total production through the use of quality seed of improved varieties and hybrid
Growth of Rice Production in Different Districts of Manipur: a Decadal Analysis
Get PDFRice is the most important crop of India and the second most important crop in the world. India accounts for 24.5 per cent of the total production of rice in the world which is the second highest, the highest being China contributing about 36 per cent (Mishra, 2004). In Manipur, a state in north east India, agriculture is the backbone of the state\u27s economy and main source of livelihood of the people with 69 per cent of the workforce depending on agriculture. Rice is the principal food crop of the state and almost 100 per cent of the population depends on rice for their staple food. Therefore, among the agricultural activities, cultivation of rice is the most important activity of the state. The present yield of rice is around 2 tonnes/ha which is quite satisfactory as compared to the all India level. But the actual yield potential of the state is around 4-6 tonnes/ha, which indicates a yield gap. It is important to know the growth in area, production and productivity of rice so as to formulate an appropriate plan for further improving the production and productivity. Therefore, the present study was taken up to analyze the trend of area, production and productivity of rice in different districts of Manipur for the period 1983 to 200
Impact of Japan International Co-Operation Agency (JICA) Extension Project on Quality Silk Production: a Case Study
Get PDFSericulture, as an agro-based enterprise, occupies an important position in Indian economy due to its high employment potential, low capital intensive and remunerative nature of the production that churns out value added products of economic importance. India is the second largest producer of raw silk, next only to China accounting for more than 13 per cent of the global silk production. The total annual production of raw silk in India was 18.48 thousand MT, of which mulberry raw silk output aggregated to about 16.53 thousand MT during 2006-07. However, the major concern of the Indian silk industry is the low level of quality and productivity as compared to other major silk producing countries such as China and Brazil. The major reason for the above problem is that the silk is produced by the use of crossbreed cocoons for reeling raw silk. The silk reeled out of these crossbreed cocoons produced in India reaches a maximum grade of C by the international standards. This silk is not preferred in the high-speed looms and mill sectors due to less uniformity, short filament length, more winding breaks and high degumming losses as compared to imported silk (Naik and Babu, 199
Effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Communication Skills of Agricultural Extension Officials: a case study in Markazi Province of Iran
Get PDFIn Iran, sustainable agriculture and rural development are two pivotal issues in· the national development programmes. Since food security for the citizens is a constitutional principle to which the entire country is committed, the constitution has given strong emphasis to the key preconditions for national food security such as agricultural development, science and technology, environmental protection, social security, poverty alleviation, protection of women\u27s rights and human dignity. The extension system of the country has the responsibility to attain the above objective
Measuring Readability of Farm Information Published in Newspapers
Get PDFPrint media have been accepted as an important means of communication. Printed words are effective as compared to other mass media because they hold certain merits. These words help the communicator to think, organize ideas and choose better so that the reader can understand the ideas easily (Salunkhe and Sawant, 1984). Printed words are largely used for communicating useful farm information to literate farmers, thus catering to the needs of farming communities. Printed material is being used increasingly with steady improvement in literacy rate in the country (Anonymous, 2002
Resource Use Efficiency in Rice Production,
Get PDFRice is one of the staple food crops in India occupying 43 million hectares with a production of 93 million tones. It is estimated that about 260 million tones (MT) of food grains are to be produced annually by the year 2030 to meet the food requirements of the growing population (Reddy A R and Sen C. 2004). It is projected that India needs to produce 115 mt of rice by the year 2020 to maintain the present level of self-sufficiency. The available evidence suggests that farmers in developing countries fail to exploit the full potential of a technology and or make allocative error