Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

OBJECTIVES

• To promptly demonstrate the latest agricultural technologies to the farmers as well as extension workers of the State Department of Agriculture/Horticulture, Animal science, with view to reduce the gap between the technology generation and its adoption.
• To test and verify the technologies in the socio-economic conditions of the farmers with a view to study the production constraints and to modify the technologies to make them appropriate.
• To impart training to the practicing farmers/farmwomen, rural youths and field level extension functionaries by following themethod of “Teaching by doing” and “Learning by Doing”.
• To back up with training and communication support tothe district level development departments in their extension programme.
• To develop extension models to be adopted by general extension system for large scale multiplication .
• To get first hand scientific feed back from the fields and passing it to the research system in order to keep the scientists abreast with the performance of the technologies and the farming problems.
• To bring about improvement in agricultural mechanization in the area through entrepreneurship development in agriculture and related aspects and to improve the socio-economic status of the farming community through transfer of economically viable and environmentally sound technologies on various aspects such as crop[ production, mechanization,horticulture, animal husbandry and women in agriculture.