In this blog, D Alagu Niranjan and Sujeet Kumar Jha elaborate on the importance of Geographical Indications (GI) in protecting producers’ rights and saving...
Extension Approaches & Tools
Misinformation and fake news make it difficult for farmers to identify trustworthy information. With more and more farmers using social media, identifying and...
Effectiveness of famers’ training depends to a large extent on an efficient assessment of their training needs. But quite often, these training needs...
Promotion of public-private partnerships for extension delivery is the only way to bridge the demand for, and supply of, extension services among small tea...
Crop cafeterias, while generating evidence about varietal performance can also be a platform that connects different stakeholders in the seed value chain, and...
Farm Business Advisors (FBA) overcome the last mile distribution gap of agricultural information and technology to small-scale farmers. Of all the iDE country...
Without an extension manual to guide millions of extension interventions, the effectiveness of extension work cannot be improved upon to meet the objectives of...
Without having sufficient knowledge of ‘who is doing what’ in the increasingly pluralistic extension and advisory landscape, the country would fail to achieve...
Farmers can enhance their income if they start branding their commodities. Extension and Advisory Services should support farmers with branding their produce...
Extension needs new theories, frameworks and a shift in its current approach if it has to remain relevant. Reverse extension offers one way of reinventing its...