Agriculture Extension and Sustainable Rural Development

Contents: Preface. I. Rural Youths and skill development. II. Farming systems and approaches to sustainability. III. Extension management and support for rural employability. IV. Rural management of agribusiness. V. Gender empowerment and mainstreaming. The agricultural scenario is rapidly changing with a host of challenges due to degradation of natural resources, climate change and socio economic factors on one hand and other hand with an emerging potential apportunities arising due to changing food preferences, increasing demand of secondary agriculture and enhanced access to domestic and international market. In view of this, agricultural extension has to be more vibrant to address the challenges and exploit potentialities by the concerned stakeholders. Realizing these requirements this book has been devised with five thematic areas 1. Rural youth and skill development, 2. Farming systems and approaches to sustainability, 3. Extension management and support for rural employability, 4. Management of agribusiness and 5. Gender empowerment and main streaming in which learned extension experts from all over India have contributed their experiences. . (jacket). …