Extension Strategies for Agriculture and Rural Development

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. I. Policy initiative in extension education: 1. Major reforms needed for a dynamic agricultural extension system/C. Prasad. 2. The needed shift in agricultural development domains and the commensurate extension strategy for ushering into the era of ever-green revolution and commercial agriculture/P.N. Jha. 3. An innovative approach to field extension Paliganj experience/B.P. Sinha. 4. Preparing extension for emerging opportunities and challenges in agriculture/Baldeo Singh. 5. Stratiform information and participatory extension management: a paradigm for in-tension of ex-tension/Dipak De and Basavaprabhu Jirli. 6. Transgenic crops, biosafety and sustainable development: policy reflection/R.N. Padaria, Baldeo Singh, Leela Ram, Surya and Pankaj Kumar. 7. Conceptualizing agricultural extension management for rural development/A.K. Singh, Shantanu Kumar, Uma Sah and S.K. Singh. 8. Indian agriculture: at the crossroads/D.K. Sujan, K. Ghadei and S. Panigrahi. 9. Strengthening research and extension linkages in agriculture/P. Adhiguru. II. Market led extension and commercial farming: 10. Issues and emerging challenges of agricultural marketing: extension and export policy/Ram Pratap Singh. 11. Demand-driven extension services for farmers/C.S. Arneja and Shabana Yasmin. 12. Market-led agricultural extension/Virendra Kumar Yadav and C.Y. Manikanhaiya. 13. e-Choupal and agricultural marketing/Samir Rajan Dash. 14. Market led extension system in tribal zone: an experiment/C. Satapathy and Sabita Mishra. 15. Farmers' Driven Participatory Pulses Seed Production (FDPSP) for ensuring seed-sufficiency at the village level/S.K. Singh, Shantanu Kumar, S.N. Nigam and A.K. Singh. 16. Dynamics of Ajinkyatara farmer's co-operative: an innovative extension strategy for agricultural development and rural prosperity-a case study/P.G. Khalache, H.P. Sonawane and J.H. Gaikwad. III. ICT application and methodological advances in agriculture: 17. A web based soil health card application: decision support system for agriculture development/M.C. Varshneya, R.S. Parmar, Arun Patel, Kalpesh Patel and Hiren. 18. Community Radio: looking forward at sustainable development/Suchi Gaur and Sarita Anand. 19. Importance of information communication technology in rural development/Prabhjot Kaur and Sahil Garg. 20. Mobile Agricultural School and Services (MASS): the latest technology of extension system in agriculture sector/Vijay Bharat. 21. Role of farm literature as a source of latest agricultural information for agricultural development officers of Punjab/Dharminder Singh and D.S. Dhillon. 22. Utilization pattern of communication sources channels among the rural women/Sonika Gupta, J.P. Singh and R.P. Singh. 23. CCS H.A.U. farmers fair: an evaluation/Pardeep Kumar, A.K. Godara, Reena, Nasib Singh and S.K. Mehta. 24. Impact of Krishi Mahotsav 2007 in TOT at village level in Gujarat State/Nikulsinh M. Chauhan. 25. Quantification of indigenous knowledge on dairying/A. Saha, Swapan B. Mukhopadhya and D. Das Gupta. 26. Construction and standardization of management ability scale for Mango Orchard enterprise/N.B. Jadav, P.R. Kanani and P.S. Gorfad. 27. A scale to measure attitude towards increased retirement age of college teachers/G.L. Bagdi and Anupama Shah. 28. Assessment of adoption gap of potato production technology of potato growers and their adoption level/R.P. Singh, Shiv Kumar, Shakuntala Gupta, Virendra Kumar and Amit Kumar. 29. Evaluation of watershed management programme in Bundelkhand region: a case study/Om Prakash and V.S. Katiyar. 30. Impact of IPM team work on diffusion and adoption of IPM Practices in Pigeonpea crop for sustainable yield in North Karnataka/S.K. Meti. 31. Impact study of Sulphur nutrition on productivity of Soybean in vertisols of M.P./A.K. Dixit, D.S. Tomar and Arvind Saxena. 32. Impact of watershed management on land use pattern and productivity level of different crops of Jamui District (Bihar)/R.B. Prasad, Dilip Kumar, R.K. Sinha and V.K. Singh. 33. Impact analysis of apiculture training programme: an evaluatory study of Samastipur District in Bihar/Anuradha Ranjan Kumari, Meera Singh and Sudhir Das. 34. Impact assessment of potato technologies in Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains of Bihar/Barsati Lal, Anil Kumar, T.K. Sinha and N.K. Pandey. 35. Constraints in adoption of technologies by farmers of watershed areas in different agro-ecological regions of India/Om Prakash and Y.V.R. Reddy. 36. Extension gap and impact of FLD on oilseed pulses crops conducted by KVK Janjgir-Champa: a case study/R.N. Sharma, Manish Kumar, N.K. Toorray, M.K. Chandraker and S. Shantaiya. 37. Adoption and level of knowledge of farmers regarding biofertilizer in Agra District (U.P.)/Rajeev Chauhan, J.P. Singh and R.P. Singh. IV. Entrepreneurship development and innovative approaches in extension education: 38. Strategies for accelerating technology adoption to improve rural livelihood: prospect of North Bihar/G. Trivedi and Ashok K. Singh. 39. Constraints faced by the programme coordinators and suggestions offered by them for effective management of KVKs in India/N.M. Chauhan. 40. Improving livelihood security through farmer participatory pulses based interventions: experiences from rainfed Bundelkhand region  of India/Shantanu Kumar Dubey, S.K. Singh, Uma Sah and A.K. Singh. 41. Extent of adoption of recommended production technology pigeonpea by farmers/A.P. Dwivedi, B.P. Singh, R.P. Singh and Mamta Singh. 42. Entrepreneurship development: concept and new approaches/B.K. Mandal, Sarvesh Kumar and P. Saroj. 43. A comparative analysis of entrepreneurial behavior of farmers in irrigated and dry land areas of Raichur District of Karnataka: an analytical study/S.K. Meti. 44. Productivity enhancement in Soybean-wheat cropping pattern through on farm trials in vertisols of Malwa Plateau/U.S. Gautam and D.K. Paliwal. 45. Constraints with regard to improved vegetable production technologies/R.S. Suman. 46. Entrepreneurial behavior of Mango Orchard Growers in Junagadh District of Gujarat State/N.B. Jadav, M.N. Popat and D.V. Patel. 47. Entrepreneurship in vegetable growers/Rakesh Jain and M.M. Patel. 48. Livelihood security through adoption of frontier technology in Soybean/Seema Naberia, U.S. Gautam and S.S. Chauhan. 49. Participatory irrigation management: an impact study of Mehsana District of Gujarat State/R.F. Thakor and P.J. Joshi. 50. Innovative extension strategies for farmer's adoption towards salinity management practices in coastal area of Western Gujarat/N.B. Jadav, M.B. Viradiya, K.A. Khunt and R.L. Shiyani. 51. To study the extent of knowledge level and profile of the beneficiaries towards Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) Programme/S.M. Kenchanagoudra, S.K. Meti and S.K. Dolli. 52. Knowledge and awareness about mushroom cultivation under macro-mode-management project/Dayaram and Ashok K. Singh. 

"In the wake of globalization, the concept, philosophy and methodologies of extension system has gone under rapid change. In order to face the emerging challenges, there is need to develop synergistic and coherent strategy for enhancing crop productivity and providing livelihood options to the rural masses. For the purpose, an initiative was taken to document the salient contributions and approaches of esteemed personalities who are involved in agricultural and rural development process as the scientific expert, policy planner and stakeholders. This book entitled "Extension Strategies for Agriculture and Rural Development" devoted on five sub-themes (i) Policy initiative in extension education (ii) Market-led extension and commercial farming (iii) ICT application and methodological advances in agriculture (iv) Entrepreneurship development and innovative approaches in extension and; (v) gender mainstreaming farming system.

The topics covered in the book have got tremendous variation and move around with the strategies and recent approaches by which agriculture can become more productive and income generating enterprise leading to turn economically viable and socially acceptable profession. This book is more useful for the scientists, development professionals, teachers, extension workers and policy planners who are involved in the area of agriculture and rural development." (jacket)