Journal of Agricultural Extension Management
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Empowering Women through Natural and Social Resource Management
Full text linkFor people who live in fragile eco-regions such as forests, hills, arid and semi-arid plains, agriculture and animal husbandry are the main sources of income. Besides, they depend heavily on natural resources for their survival. For example, they collect fire wood for cooking, fodder for cattle feed, roots, tubers and wild fruits for human consumption. In addition to this collection and selling of bamboo, gum, mahau flowers, tamarind, honey, beedy leaves, palm leaves, sal leaves, blackjamoons, spices, broom sticks and herbs forms an important source of income to these people. In all these, women play a central role. Gathering, processing and storing, utilization and management and marketing the forest products is mainly the job of a woman. They contribute 70 percent of the work and the rest only by men. Even if there is no male member in the family the woman does everything but rarely we find a man doing the work of a woma
MANAGE: A Case of HRD in Government
Full text linkThe National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) is an apex level autonomous body set up in 1987 under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government oflndia. It is the Indian response to the challenges of management in a rapidly growing and diverse agricultural sector. An organization like MANAGE has three important elements which have a direct bearing on the performance of the individual’s viz., structure, culture and processes. Structures in the organizations are generally given and the amendments in them are rarely done as it involve decisions at the topmost level. However, bringing changes in the culture and processes, are well within the authority of head of the organization and also at the command of the individuals at different levels. Realizing this fact, in MANAGE, lot of innovative initiatives are taken with an eye on positive changes and performance raise in the organization. This process of change aims at becoming responsive institution ready to meet the demands and challenges of the 21st century organizatio
World Trade Agreement – Its Impact on Indian Agriculture
Full text linkIndia is a founder member of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) established in 1948 along with 22 other nations. World Trade Organization (WTO) was established on 1st January 1995 with 110 membership nations including India. The present membership strength is 144 and 30 other nations are actively considering membership. The 8th round summit of GATT at Uruguay (19986-91) finalized the draft, Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) which became effective from 1st July 199
Message Design for Community Wall Newspaper: Participatory Approach
Full text linkThe role of media in agricultural development is catalytic. Among them, the print is considered as powerful media for development. The unique advantage of print media as the development communication system that it all owns the reader to control the occasion, pace and direction of chang
Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension warrants as much preference as given to Research
Full text linkThe acceptance or rejection of a new technology in Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Sector by the livestock rearing community depends upon the characteristics of that innovation, the quality and density of Veterinary Extension Personnel, the clientele knowledge, accessibility to technical inputs and services essential for adoption of technology (Rao et al. , 1995). The ultimate decision to adopt a particular technology depends to a great extent on the farmers\u27 perceptions about the technology, socio-economic factors and the need for the technology. Veterinary Scientists time and again observed that, in the teeth of availability of ameliorated Animal Husbandry technologies, the speed of their adoption in the field is very slow. Lately, it has been realised that the lack of awareness on the part of the researchers regarding the farmers\u27 perceptions and priorities, has led them to address the wrong problems resulting in technologies which are not suitable or relevant to the end users for whom the technologies were evolved. With the sequel, that most of the innovations developed through research remain in the laboratories without being utilised by the farming community. The researchers are given full credit to the inroads so far been made in the animal food production front and are called upon to further increase the production to meet the balance the needs of the growing population and their food habit
Agricultural Marketing in the wake of the World Trade Agreement
No full textFor India and the other developing countries, liberalization is an advantage. Initially, many economists were optimistic about being apart of the global village. As time panes, more challenges are coming up leading to more confusion. Given this backdrop, it would be appropriate to collate the relationship between two and its interlinked opportunities in view of open trade polic
Indigenous Technical Know how of Coastal Fisher folk of Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra
Full text linkIndigenous knowledge is the knowledge that people in a given community have developed over time and continue to develop. It is based on experience, often treated over centuries of use, adopted to local culture and environment and is dynamic and changin
Performance of Farm Women in Agriculture and Income Generating Activities
Full text linkIt is a well known fact that women\u27s income in a family is of paramount importance for nutritional, economic and educational upliftment of the family. Since women constitute almost half of the population in India, the burden shared by her for the socio-economic development is of two folds - one on the domestic front and the other on the economic front. However, the employment opportunities in rural areas are low because of the fact that the employment opportunities in rural areas are low because of the fact that the agriculture is of seasonal in nature. As a result of scarce employment opportunities and life supporting activities, women are tend to migrate to other areas seeking for livelihood (Leelamma, 2001
Knowledge Networking in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS) for Women in Agriculture and Rural Development
Full text linkThe importance of information and of technologies to transmit and disseminate information for development is well recognized. However, there has been little research done on women\u27s information needs and access to appropriate information in developing countries. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a diverse set of technological tools and resources to create, disseminate, store, bring value-addition and manage information. ICT does not include only the Internet but a gamut of other tools which could be used individually or in convergence with each other to catalyse the process of change in a manner which reduces the skew in knowledge distribution between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, rural and urban, and men and women. The convergence technologies include community radios, Internet radio, local area networks, tele-centres, information kiosks, mobile phones, WAP applications etc. They often enhance the reach and penetration of the IC
Influence of performance appraisal system on overall climate of agricultural extension organizations
No full textIn the entire process of individual development and organisational effectiveness, performance appraisal plays a vital role. Performance appraisal mechanism is intended to maintain a satisfactory level of work environment, job performance and employee development in the organisation (Rao, 1992). Employee growth and satisfaction with the job, individual productivity improvement and overall climate in an organisation are expected to be influenced by the performance appraisal system (PAS) in operation. A positive approach towards performance appraisal results in higher productivity (Kumar et al., 1993). Considering that the quality of the human resource in an agricultural extension organization is a determining factor in its success or failure, performance appraisal is a critical management function and an effective way to improve performance of extension personnel (Davis, 1993). The effectiveness of extension workers in promoting and speeding up the dissemination of new agricultural practices depends on the interaction factors between organizational climate and performance appraisal system. With the ever increasing complexity of challenges facing extension organizations, extension personnel need to play proactive and strategic partner roles. Keeping these above-mentioned facts in view, the present study aims to assess the performance appraisal system and organisational climate along with exploring the relationship between the