Journal of Agricultural Extension Management
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Capacity Building of Extension Workers and Farmers in Extension Education
Get PDFIn India, the income from agriculture is about 29% to GDP and is considered as the backbone of Indian economy. Since India is one of the important partner in business through World Trade Organization (WTO), new challenges are being faced by Indian economy in general and agricultural economy in particular. Since more than 65% population of this country is engaged in agricultural, it requires a serious thinking, rigorous planning and sincere execution of the policies in this regard. The days of subsistence agricultural have gone. With the implementation of WTO agreements since 1995, the whole world has become a village market, where quality and quantity of any products effects the prices in the whole world market. The socio-cultural conditions in India do not allow to become the player of WTO. However in present circumstances, no country can develop while remaining in isolation. Moreover, the Indian industrialists and farmers-have become very lethargic in performance and production. Most of the goods produced in India are of poor qualit
Information Revolution in Indian Agriculture
No full textIndian agriculture contributes 32% to the G.D.P. and after 53 years of independence about 64% of Indian population still depend on agriculture. About 8 years are over when economic reforms were started in the country. Accordingly each and every sector has changed their strategies in view of global competition but for information dissemination at farmers level still age old concept of grassroot level worker and adopted villages & localities is continuing where after introduction of technology, years together you have to wait for its percolation to the remaining farm population. Even in adopted villages people take interest only till the project/programme is there, after project is over they again come to the point from where they had started, and despite providing free of cost extension services, so far, only 25-30% technologies have reached to the farmer’s fiel
Innovations in Training for Team Work
Get PDFThe concept of team work is as old as the civilization of mankind. Looking back into most of the adventures like conquering the mighty Mount Everest or winning the most difficult wars or the construction of the wonders of world like the Taj Mahal or the giant Pyramids, team work remained in focus as a process to achieve success while carrying out these adventures & tasks. Perhaps the strength & value in working together for a common cause by the prehistoric man might have been realized while hunting wild animals for food. Working together with selected people having strength, interdependency, required knowledge and skills might have given the concept of group. Literature on ~groups\u27 suggests that the essential characteristics of a work group may be - a definable membership, group consciousness, sense of shared purpose, inter dependence, interaction & ability to work in a unified manne
Women\u27s Empowerment for Sustainable Agriculture Development
No full textIn a stratified society like ours access and empowerment of different section of the societies are becoming serious concerns and to address it planners, managers, social scientist all over the world have started deliberating and devising way out like anything. In this direction genders issues are dominating over other vulnerable issues like poverty, class conflicts, communities, ethnic issues etc. In ensuring an egalitarian development gender equity still remains as a pertinent question as it has been for the thousands of years of human civilizatio
Performance Appraisal in RBEDS
Get PDFIn the management of extension organization two mam mechanisms are involved. One is quality of extension service i.e. value of the work to meet the clients\u27 accelerating expectations and the other is the management of personnel. This study on the functioning of Rubber Board Extension Delivery System (RBEDS) is concerned with "Quality of Extension Service and its Performance" (QESP). The objective of QESP has shifted from the traditional evaluation, where the organisation is assessed merely as a mechanism to control employees by taking administrative action in respect to overall impact of the organisation. The true measure of an organization’s effectiveness is quality of its service and the performance, as a whole to delight custome
Market-led Agricultural Extension Challenges & Future Strategy
Get PDFIndian agriculture has made rapid progress / strides in the last half century by augmenting the annual food grain production from 51 million tonnes in the early fifties to 209 million tonnes in 1999-2000 and steered the country to a status of self sufficiency. It has been successful in keeping pace with the rising food demand of a growing population. Food grain production quadrupled in the last 50 years while population nearly tripled from 350 million to one billion during this period. Significantly, the extension system had played its role untiringly in transfer of production technologies from lab to land besides the agricultural scientists, farmers and marketing networ
India’s Traditional Water Conservation and Harvesting System: A solution to combating Water Scarcity
Get PDFWater has been harvested in India since antiquity. Evidence of this tradition can be found in many age-old ancient texts, scriptures, inscriptions, local tradition and archaeological remains. Traditional systems are the specific response to the ecology and culture in which they have evolved, they are more durable and have satisfied certain needs of local people in environment friendly manner. These systems emphasize the eco logical conservation in contrast to environmental exploitation by the modern systems. These have benefited from collective human experience since time immemorial and in that li e their bi guest strength. Traditional systems are low cost, user friendly techniques and community-based systems, which contribute to social cohesion and se lf-reliance. Often the responsibility of taking decision s and actions was left to individuals, groups and local communities working together. This encourages economic independence and optimatisation of local resources at micro-leve
Comparative Analysis of Formats and Readability of Articles published in a News Paper and A Farm Magazine
Get PDFIn India there are several media disseminating the recent agricultural technologies to farmers. Among them, print media play a vital role in disseminating the recent technologies to literate farmers. Agricultural Journalism in India came into existence just five decades ago. It is now gaining importance, particularly after the establishment of State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), the technical information needs to be provided to the farmers at the right time in a right way, so that the productivity can be increase
Cost Price Analysis in Sugarcane: A Study in Tamil Nadu, Southern India
Get PDFIndian sugar industry has a unique, intrinsic and symbolic relationship with the livelihood of the rural masses and contributes around 2 per cent to the national gross domestic product. It employs over 40 million cane growers and their families, constituting 7 per cent of the rural population and about 3.5 lakh skilled and unskilled labourers. As a raw material, sugarcane is transported from farms to sugar mills and hence the service sector like transportation is getting developed in addition to rural road development. Sugarcane is the basic raw material for gur making, and gur making is one of the important cottage industries that provides employment to the rural folk, particularly in harvesting, transporting by head load to crushing unit from the field, crushing and gur preparation. Thus, the sugar industry as a whole helps in uplifting the lives of the rural masses. Being the second largest agro-based industry, only next to cotton, it plays a dominant role in promoting the development of both agricultural and industrial economies of the countr
Opinion of Farmers About Functioning of Rythu Bazaars
Get PDFThe major objective of rythu bazars is to provide remunerative price to the produce of farmers, cheap and fresh vegetables to the consumers by the elimination of middlemen. Has more than 2 years have elapsed since the establishment of RBs, it is essential that a study is conducted aimed at assessing the functioning of RBs from the producers point of view and eliciting their responses in order take RBs amore functional. The present investigation has been conceived, planned and conducted with the following specific objectiv