Innovations in Agriculture Extension Services!!!

Innovations in Extension Services!

Adult learning is not widely practiced in the extension services which are predominant in our country.

Farmer are often told what is right ("modern techniques") and what is wrong ("traditional practices"), what to grow ( often, cash crops), and where and when to market their produce.

This approach to extension promotes dependency on outside inputs and expert advice (self-concept). It denies farmers the choice of what they want to learn (motivation). It does not focus on the farmer's most immediate need to grow more food for their family (time perspective). Nor does it take into account a farmer's accumulated experience of the environment where their crops are grown.

Perhaps the most important is to try and ensure success by promoting only those innovations whose results have been thoroughly tested under local conditions. Less costly innovations (e.g. timeliness, seed selection or better spacing techniques) are preferred and in cases where cash inputs are required, risk is reduced if they are readily available to all classes of farmers.

As we come up with our package of innovations, we kick-start this season in order to de-risk farmers and fetch better economic rewards for them....

PS: As we kick-start this Rabi season, from now on all our agriculture activities would be covered under the brand name of SUMअर्थ

#DeshKaCultureAgriculture #SUMअर्थ

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