Building Self Reliant INDIA Through Techno-Rich Extension System in Agriculture and Allied Sectors

Contents: 1. Agricultural Extension at the New Age of Change for Accelerating Inclusive Growth/R.K. Samanta. 2. Pluralistic Extension: Concept, Context, Learning and Challenges/Swagata Ghoshal and Debabrata Basu. 3. Gap Analysis for Low Adoption of Technology/Souvik Ghosh and Darshan N.P. 4. Dimensions of Social Science Research for Self-Reliant Agriculture: Aligning Extension Research to Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan/Bharat S. Sontakki, R. Venkattakumar and Partha Pratim Pal. 5. Strengthening Fisheries Extension - The Aquaculture Field School Way/H.K. De and G.S. Saha. 6. Role of Extension Workers in Raising Income of Small and Marginal Farmers in Changing Agricultural Perspectives in India/Prabhat Kumar Pal. 7. Institutional Extension Mechanism for Dissemination of Farm Technologies: A Case of Potato in Hills and Plain Situations in India/S.K. Dubey, Uma Sah, N.K. Pandey, R.R. Burman and Atar Singh. 8. Technology Dissemination Using Social Networks: Learning of Farmer-to-Farmer Approach/Uma Sah, S.K. Singh and S.K. Dubey. 9. Skill Development and Capacity Building of Rural Youth: An Effective Tool to Rebuilding the Nation/Aparna Roy. 10. Extension Service for Enhancing the Income of Smallholders: An Overview/Shamna A and Archana Raghavan Sathyan. 11. Eco-friendly Technology to Assess Jute Product for Self-Reliant Jute Industry/B. Saha. 12. Changing Scenario of Extension System and New Trends in Advisory Services: An Overview/Madhumita Jena, S.K. Roy, J. Udgata and P.P. Pal. 13. Harnessing Multimedia based ICTs for Disseminating Need-based Technologies to Farming Community/R. Roy Burman, Girijesh Singh Mahra, Sonali Mallick and Sushmita Saini. 14. Biofortification - A Sustainable Agricultural Strategy for Self-sufficiency in Micro-nutrient Malnutrition Management/Kasturi Majumder, Rambilash Mallick and P.K. Ghosh. 15. Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: A Brief Note for the Beginners/Poulami Sen, Sanchayeeta Misra, Suvangini Das, Pingala Paul, Satabdi Saha and Rupak Goswami. 16. Re-focusing on the Upsurging Need for Skill Development and Capacity Building of Rural Youth in Agriculture and Allied Sector/Kausik Pradhan and Biman Maity. 17. Divulging the Potentiality of Dairy Extension for Achieving Rural Prosperity: An ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ (Self-reliant India) Perspective/Asif Mohammad. 18. Krishi Vigyan Kendra - A Prime Mover for ATMANIRBHAR in Agriculture Sector of India/Singh, S.S. and Ananth, P.N. Agricultural extension plays an important role in boosting agricultural productivity, increasing food security, improving rural livelihoods and promoting agriculture as an engine of pro-poor economic growth. Over the time, it has also mended itself as a crucial system that provides support services to rural producers meeting the new challenges confronting agriculture like climate change, marketing and other associated attributes. The very genesis of agricultural extension, followed by its transformation for the upliftment of farming community needs a systematic deliberation to understand the multifarious role played by this discipline. Accordingly, this book has incorporated almost all the changes taken place over a period of time for bringing visible changes in agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery in a systemic manner for the students and professionals associated with agriculture and rural development activities. This book has also highlighted the areas like women empowerment, agribusiness development for the rural youths and other significant arena closely linked with the dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat. Various strategies have also been suggested to make agriculture extension as the driver of agriculture development with the use of advanced ICT tools that may go a long way towards achieving the goal of self-reliant India through agriculture and allied sectors.…