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Agriculture Extension and Its Services in India


Dr. Parvani Rekhi
Pages: 29-42
ISBN: 978-93-5834-526-1


Advanced Trends in Agricultural Extension (Volume -7)

Advanced Trends in Agricultural Extension
(Volume - 7)

Abstract

The agriculture extension system connects a farmer's field to research facilities. According to some, agricultural research, education, and extension are most important for boosting farm production and farmer income. In India, the public sector is a key source of extension services, but its reach is constrained. In addition, it is overburdened with non-extension duties like distributing subsidies and inputs, leaving little time for core extension tasks. The article's goal is to evaluate India's agricultural extension system and offer recommendations for improvements. In India, the public extension services are heavily biased in favor of crop husbandry while disregarding related industries. The understaffed extension departments have gotten worse over time. Over time, non-extension labor has become a strain on the understaffed extension departments. The expansion of the High-Value Agriculture industry has outpaced crop output by a factor of two or even three. However, these areas receive very little or no organized agriculture extension assistance. The revenue of the farmer can be greatly increased by recruiting and training a sufficient number of extension specialists in the field. India spent far less than the World Bank's suggested 2 percent-only 0.7% of its GDP for agriculture-on extension and training as well as agricultural research. Without successfully implementing agricultural extension, the government's goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022 would not be achieved.

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