Many agencies are experimenting with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for enhancing the capacities of rural communities and knowledge intermediaries. MOOCs...
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New courses related to socio-economic faculties including extension needs to be developed and promoted in forestry education, argues Dr Binoo P Boney. ...
Producer Organisations often need continuous hand holding support to emerge as viable and effective organizations and quite often this kind of support is not...
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...
While basics of extension remain the same, livestock extension needs different treatment. It is time to relook at livestock extension and bring about a...
Farmers like to watch quality videos, just like anybody else. However, lack of availability and distribution of quality videos on agriculture in local...
These days everywhere you turn, you see and hear about seminars, conferences and workshops. But very few of these add value by contributing to improving the...
Though extension scientists in the NARS can potentially engage in useful research that can influence the technology development process, they are mostly...
Public delivery of extension services has not kept pace with the emerging expectations and challenges faced by farmers. Administrative, structural and legal...
In his previous blog “it is time to influence the 13th Plan” Shri Suresh Kumar discussed the elaborate policy framework behind the national planning process in...
