Agricultural extension professionals

Role performance of the Agricultural extension professionals are much required for effective technology transfer and continued adoption by the farmers. A study conducted with 182 Agricultural extension professionals revealed that the respondents had performed better on developing technical competency, communication system, planning, programme implementation and capacity building of the farmers in comparison to community organization and marketing of the produce.

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The present study was conducted at Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, India. Total hundred respondents were randomly selected for the study that is comprised of farmers, input dealers, NGO staff, Bank employees, KVK staff, farmer's club members, SAU, panchayat members, private companies and state extension professionals etc.The personal interview method is followed to collect the information from each and every women stakeholder of the women led agricultural innovation system in the study area.Actor oriented tools like Actor Linkage Map and Actor linkage Matrix were used in this study.

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A good deal of work in establishing closer linkage between research and extension has been done in the last few years. The result of painstaking efforts of research scientists have been carried to the farmers by an army of more than 70,000 village extension workers in the major states where professional agricultural extension system is functioning. As defined by Roling (1988) extension is purposeful communication intervention deployed by an institution to induce change in voluntary behaviours with a presumed public or collective utility.

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Human resources form the bedrock of the agricultural extension system. The agricultural sector requires skilled human resources who are capable of all aspects of work in agricultural and rural centres, including producing, processing and marketing of agricultural products. The present study was carried out in middle Gujarat region and ATMA personnel (Agricultural Technology Management Agency) selected as respondents.

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be a key enabler and a vital component of the new knowledge-based economy and is capable of revolutionizing the process of information dissemination and knowledge management. In such a resilient backdrop, the present study attempts to assess the extent of ICT usage by an agricultural extension professional for guiding the farming community for sustainable agriculture development and restoring social sustainability.

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This preliminary study shows an innovative concept of searching for peat substitutes on basis of renewable raw materials considering the cultivation in extensive land use in Lower Saxony (Germany). Selecting suitable raw material plants against the background of ecological , social and economic issues followed by testing series including those materials should lead on to reliable results for a planned transition through a spatial analysis of potential areas for cultivation with a specific attention on wetlands.

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The history of development intervention is marked by multiple failures at dialogue between analysts and practitioners; an impasse caused in part by the failure to recon- cile disparate professional languages. In Kenya, where critical thought for this book was generated, a cause célèbre in livestock intensification has been the ill-fated Maasai Project of the 1960s and 1970s. The wider East Africa region too is known for its repeated failures to sustain projects in agricultural extension, water manage- ment, and drought preparedness.

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As in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of poor smallholders in Malawi are left out of the agricultural extension and credit systems. These households, characterized by landholdings of less than 1 hectare and very low crop yields, are unable to grow enough food to feed themselves even though they focus much effort on producing food crops, especially maize.

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