Vol. 9 (1) : January-February 2018 issue
Green Farming Vol. 9 (1) : 106-111 ; January-February, 2018
An assessment of agricultural extension service providers in the pluralistic ecosystem in Dryland areas of Telangana
JAGRITI ROHITa1* and SARAVANAN RAJb2
aTOT, Section ICAR–Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Santoshnagar, Hyderabad - 500 059 (Telangana),
bDirector, Agricultural Extension, MANAGE, Rajendranagar - 500 030 Hyderabad (Telangana)
Designation : 1Scientist *(jags.rohit@gmail.com), 2Director
Subject : Agriculture Extension Education
Paper No. : P-7126
Total Pages : 6
Received : 03 January 2018
Revised accepted : 25 January 2018
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Citation :
JAGRITI ROHIT and SARAVANAN RAJ. 2018. An assessment of agricultural extension service providers in the pluralistic ecosystem in Dryland areas of Telangana. Green Farming Vol. 9 (1) : 106-111 ; January-February, 2018
ABSTRACT
Agricultural extension has evolved itself from being only transfer of technology vehicle to demand driven and pluralistic extension. There is also renewed interest by the government in extension by recognising its potential in reducing poverty. In the background of pluralism, this is a descriptive study undertaken to assess the working of different types of extension service providers in Rangareddy district, Telangana which comes under dryland. Both public and private sector organizations were selected for the study. The schedule was based on the worldwide extension assessment questionnaire. The data was collected by interviewing the representative of the organizations. This paper discusses the working of the organizations providing extension services with its strength and weakness. The paper shows that the public extension is still dominates the extension with more human resource and quantity of work but the private/NGO's though less in human resource, had focused on making extension more accountable to the farmers and providing marketing facilities to the farmers. progressive farmers bias was present in public system of extension services but NGO's were working hard not to get trapped in it as they were making there programme targeted towards the small and marginal farmers. The paper concludes with making extension as “convergent pluralism” than just pluralistic extension.
Key words :
Agricultural extension services, Dryland agriculture, Pluralistic extension, Transfer of technology.