Agricultural Extension

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

Agricultural extension education plays a crucial role in boosting agricultural productivity, increasing food security, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting agriculture as an engine of pro-poor economic growth. Agricultural extension is a professional methods of non –formal education aimed at inducing behavioural changes in the farmers for increasing their income through increased production and productivity by establishing firm linkages with research for solving farmer’s problems ensuring adequate and timely supply of inputs and usage proven methods of communication for speeding of the process of diffusion and adoption of innovations.

Importance

  1. Extension uses democratic methods in educating the farmers.

  2. Extension Helps in adoption of innovations.

  3. Extension helps in studying and solving the rural problems.

  4. Extension increases farm yields and improve the standard of living of farmers

  5. Extension makes good communities better and progressive.

Specific Objectives

  1. To provide knowledge and help for better management of farms and increase incomes.

  2. To encourage the farmers to grow his own food, eat well and live well.

  3. To promote better social, natural recreational intellectual and spiritual file among the people.

  4. To help rural families in better appreciation of SWOT in the village.

  5. To open new opportunities for developing talents and leadership of rural people.

Education

Department of extension education offers following courses to B.Sc Agriculture students in the Shriram college of Agriculture, Paniv.

Sr. No.

Semester

Course No.

Credits

Course Title

1

I

EXTN 111

2(2+0)

Rural Sociology & Educational Psychology

2

II

EXTN 122

3(2+1)

Fundamentals of Agricultural Extension Education

3

II

EXTN 123

2(1+1)

Communication Skills and personality Developments (Common Course)

4

IV

ELE EXTN 244

3(2+1)

Agricultural Journalism

5

V

EXTN 355

2(1+1)

Entrepreneurship Development and Business Communication (Common Course)

Non credit courses

6

I

DEG 111

1(1+0)

Democracy, Elections and Good Governance

7

I

HVE 111

1(1+0)

Human Values & Ethics

Department Activities

The various activities was organized by extension education department such as poster presentation, farmers rally, farmers melava etc . Also organize different study tour related to course practical.

Staff Detail

Name

Dr.Shaikh Jabina Imam

Designation

ASST.PROF.OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

Specialization

Extension Education

Teaching Experience

1 year

Qualifications

M.Sc (Agri), PhD in Agricultural Extension

Mob.No

9730393505

E –Mail Id

mehjabin1323@gmail.com

 

Name

Dr.Kavita Uddhav Deshmukh

Designation

ASST.PROF.OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

Specialization

Extension Education

Qualifications

M.Sc (Agri), PhD in Agricultural Extension

Teaching Experience

2 year 5 month

E –Mail Id

kavita11deshmukh@gmail.com

Mob.No

7709343238

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