Agriculture extension services

Gender issues and gender inequality still exist in many countries, especially in remote and poor rural areas. Rural women often suffer from economic disadvantages, low self-confidence in the family and community, and limited access to health, social services, and extension services, which leads to lesser decisionmaking roles in the production and business of households and in leadership at work.

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This paper examined glutinous rice farming in households, as a food and for cultural security, and the extension services in areas producing glutinous rice. Data were collected from 400 local farmers based on interview schedules and statistical analysis using the percentage, arithmetic mean, and hypothesis testing with logistic regression.

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Fourth Industrialization phase is flooded by technologies. Information Communication and Technologies (ICTs) has rooted up in every field. Agriculture, considered to be the mainstay of our country has started to deploy ICT’s in every aspects. The quality of information and timeliness of information and reliability of information were the three important aspects that have to be considered seriously to meet their requirements and prospects in the coming years.

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This review paper attempts to bring together different use of organic formulation in crop production and protection. It has been argued that organic formulation in crop production is productive and sustainable, but there is a need for strong support to it in the form of manifestation of subsidies, agricultural extension services and research.

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The present study regarding the Job satisfaction of Agricultural Extension Functionaries (AEFs) for dissemination of information was carried out in three purposively selected Sub-Divisional Agricultural Offices namely Baramulla, Sopore and Rohama in district Baramulla of Jammu & Kashmir.

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Village adoption is a scientifically proven method for effective extension service to the farmers. The extension interventions in the village can be planned by considering the Socio economical and agricultural situations prevailed in the village. An attempt was made to understand the village especially the existing crop nutrient management practices of the farmers. Seetharampuram village from Warangal Rural district of Telangana is selected by Regional Agricultural Research Station, Warangal (PJTSAU) to impart technical advices the farmers.

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Women in Agriculture are generally not able to access extension services. The present research study was undertaken to study the knowledge and utilization of diagnostic services provided by the State Department of Agriculture, Rajasthan among farm women and also to find out the constraints faced by farm women in utilization of these. The study was conducted in four villages of randomly selected Mavli panchayat samiti of Udaipur district of Rajasthan.

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The study indicated that 46.67 per cent of the farmers belonged to old age group of above 45 years and were illiterate (36.70 %). Majority (51.70 %) of them had dairying and agriculture as their primary occupation and had more than 10 years of farming experience. Majority of the farmers had medium categories of cosmopoliteness and livestock possession (85.00 % and 68.33 %) respectively. The major constraints faced by the respondents were lack of awareness about latest technologies, scarcity of grazing land and water in dairy farming and lack of veterinary extension services at field level.

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The role of women farmers in agricultural production has long been debated while their role continues to remain largely unrecognized by the extension machinery of the state and developmental programmes. The present study is aimed at studying the gender division of labour in agricultural production with reference to three villages in rural Purnea district of Bihar.

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The objective of the present study was to ascertain the attitude of farmers towards the agricultural extension system of the State Department of Agriculture. The sample consisted of randomly selected 90 farmers from 09 villages of three subdistricts of Udaipur who were regularly in contact with the department functionaries for the last 3 years. For measurement of attitude, Thurston’s equal appearing interval technique was used to construct the scale.

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This paper focuses the capacity building of 167 young extension functionaries of Odisha state by means of organizing a series of 8 training programmes on "New Dimensions In Agricultural Extension Management" during 2014-15 at EEI Good Learning effectiveness of the learners by means of gain in knowledge and skills acquired with appropriately designed and administered instrument was the major outcome of the paper.

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The analysis results showed that the level of satisfaction of the farmers was significantly influenced by the quality of the agricultural extension service and the agricultural extension service quality was influenced by factors such as farmers’s adoption of technological innovations in agriculture, the extension staff’s clear presentation.

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The present study was an attempt to measure the e-readiness level of the farmers as a part of PhD research work at the Division of Agriculture Extension, IARI, New Delhi using e-readiness index developed for the purpose. Data were gathered from about 435 farmers (270 users and 165 non users of ICT based extension service) from Andhra Pradesh (includes parts of present Telangana), Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka states. Results shown that, majority of the mobile advisory beneficiaries (95.00%) and community radio listeners (93.30%) were less e-ready.

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Ex-post facto research design was followed for carrying out the study in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Sample comprised of 120 farmers selected randomly from four randomly selected mandals of Mahaboobnagar district which was a purposive selection.

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Ex- post facto research design was followed for carrying out the study in the State of Andhra Pradesh. Sample comprise of 120farmers randomly from four randomly selected mandals of Mahabunagar district which was a purposive selection. Two parameters namely extent of utilisation and extent of adoption were considered for the construction of utilisation index. To study the relevance of different aspects of each of DAATTC services judges were contacted. The aspects under each of the services whose values were more than one were finally selected.

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India has been experiencing major changes in agricultural extension system since the beginning of the 21st century. The reforms included both demand and supply side measures. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a global tool often used by individuals, organizations, governments and inter-governmental organizations for personal or official activities. Its application cut across all fields of human endeavor like medicine, commerce, engineering, architecture, education, library services, and agriculture.

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The study was conducted to assess the knowledge level of the teachers working in the University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore and this university consists of 4 campuses viz., College of Agriculture GKVK, College of Agriculture Hassan, College of Agriculture Mandya and College of sericulture, Chintamani. Population of the study consists of teachers, researchers and extension personnel working in UAS-Bangalore. Proportionate random sampling method was employed for selecting the sample. Thus the total sample size was 45. Ex-post-facto research design was followed.

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ATMA focused on a bottom-up planning process in order to make the entire extension system farmer-driven and farmer accountable. This has helped to strengthen research and extension capabilities, restructure public extension services and test new institutional arrangements for technology transfer with the involvement of all the stakeholders of Government and Non-Governmental agencies at the district level. The state of Uttar Pradesh is having 75 districts. Out of these districts, district Barabanki were selected purposively for study.

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The subsidy based credit linked Agriclinic and Agribusiness Centres (ACABC) scheme was launched in the year 2002 with an objective of providing employment opportunities to the agricultural graduates and also for strengthening the agricultural extension services to the farmers with the support of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

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Livestock sector plays important role in Indian economy. The dairy industry can go a long way in augmenting the income of the farmers. The present paper focuses on the factors affecting farm income. The study was conducted in the two agroclimatic zones of Punjab state i.e. kandi and plain zone. From each zone two districts, one block from each district and further three villages from each block and fifteen farmers from each village were selected randomly. The data was collected with personal interview method. The annual income realized by farmers varied a lot in both the regions.

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