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Agricultural Extension System analyzes India’s major reform initiatives implemented to create a broad-based demand-driven, and holistic agricultural extension system. The book presents latest innovations and reforms in agricultural extension as well as transfer of technology to the rural people. It provides a conceptual clarity and highlights trends of changes in extension work and gradual evaluation of the profession. It contributes to the ongoing debates on technology-productivity-growth with equity, with a detailed analysis of the complexities of the Indian extension system placing the farmer at the centre of the study.
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| Publisher | CBS Publishers |
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| Binding | Paperback |
| Size | 28X40/16 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 1/e |
| Pages | 160 |
| Author | Sarthak Chowdhury | Debabrata Mondal |
| Subject | Agricultural |
| About the Author | Sarthak Chowdhury is an erudite personality in the academic world of social science and related discipline. He was Principal (Adhyaksha), Palli Siksha Bhavana (Institute of Agriculture), Visva-Bharati, and also Head, Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Statistics, Visva-Bharati. He started his academic career as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Banaras Hindu University. He has more than three decades of teaching, research, extension and management experience. He has supervised the work of 10 PhD scholars of different disciplines of social sciences. He has to his credit 10 books including 3 edited volumes and over 150 research and other professional papers. He has organized a number of national conference and chaired several scientific sessions. His areas of specialization are development communication, project appraisal and farming situation-based extension.
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