Though mobile phones promise new opportunities for reaching farmers with agricultural information, its potential remains unutilised due to several...
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Though public extension has played a key role in transferring technologies in agricultural crops, its role in promotion of horticultural technologies in India...
ICT enabled extension offers new opportunities for bridging the knowledge gap in Indian agriculture. But several critical challenges still remain. Instead of...
Skill development is not merely meant for farmers and entrepreneurs. It is also about having the needed skills among field practitioners. For instance, the...
Farmers are organizing their own support systems including extension delivery through forming their own organizations to access information, advice and support...
Recent initiatives such as the National Skill Development Corporation have begun to address some of the needs related to skill development in various sectors...
Participatory Irrigation Management could be an effective model of community based extension, if extension engages more effectively with water user...
Agricultural extension services should tap the energy and creativity of rural youth to transform agricultural sector, argues Dr Mahesh Chander. CONTEXT India...
Unless the entrepreneurship competencies are added to the extension capabilities, the application of extension may not bear expected results, argues Dr S...
The focus of skill development in India by default is oriented towards industry and micro enterprises. Skill development in the farm sector is yet to receive...
