“Is it not strange that agriculture in India has transformed itself, while the public extension has lost its way? The supply-driven extension, now regarded as...
Extension Approaches
Though the Indian National Agricultural Research System has initiated several measures to support commercialisation of agricultural technologies, a lot more...
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...
While entrepreneurship has been talked about since many years, agripreneurship is something which we started discussing only recently. Dr Mahesh Chander...
Though agribusiness incubators are important to promote entrepreneurship and commercialization of new technologies in agriculture, the incubators are yet to...
Self- medication kills!! and worst is if the advice flows from a mind vested with intention of self-interest. For decades, the farmers have no other go but the...
While everyone would like to see impact of new technologies at a wider scale, very few appreciate the need for adapting new technologies to meet the varied...
BLOG-33: Fostering entrepreneurship through Agribusiness Incubation: Role of extension professionals
Development of competitive agribusiness enterprises is critical for creation of new jobs and promotion of farm livelihood diversification. Though extension...
A few months back, Dr Laxmi Prasad Pant wrote a blog for AESA on learning and innovation competence. Expanding upon the earlier argument on developing...
Even while critical debates on the relevance of public extension systems are on- with propositions that argue for more privatized extension services dominating...