Fundamentals of Extension Education (1+1)

Scope/Importance of Agricultural Extension

• The following nine areas indicate the scope of agricultural Extension work

  1. Increasing the efficiency in agricultural production
  2. Increasing the efficiency in marketing, distribution and utilization of agricultural inputs and outputs.
  3. Conservation, development and use of natural resources.
  4. Proper management on the farm and at home.
  5. Better family living.
  6. Youth development
  7. Leadership development
  8. Community development.
  9. Improving Public affairs for all round development.

• The following statements will further amplify the scope of Extension

  1. Extension is fundamentally a system of out of school education for adults and youths alike.
  2. It is a system where people are motivated through a proper approach to help themselves by applying science in their daily lives, in farming, home making and community living.
  3. Extension is education for all village people.
  4. Extension is bringing about desirable changes in the knowledge, attitudes and skills of people.
  5. Extension is helping people to help themselves.
  6. Extension is working with men and women, boys and girls, to answer their felt needs and wants.
  7. Extension is teaching people what to want, (i.e., converting unfelt needs into felt needs) as well as how to work out ways of satisfying these wants and inspiring them to achieve their desires.
  8. Extension is teaching through ‘learning by doing’ and ‘seeing is believing’.
  9. Extension is working in harmony with the culture of the people.
  10. Extension is a two – way channel; it brings scientific information to village people and it also takes the problems of the village people to the scientific institution for solution.
  11. Extension is working together (in groups) to expand the welfare and happiness of the people with their own families, their own villages, their own country and the world.
  12. Extension is a living relationship between the village workers and the village people. Respect and trust for each other, sharing of joys and sorrows, results in friendship through which village extension work continues.
  13. Extension is development of individual in their day to day living, development of their leaders, their society and their world as a whole.
  14. Extension is a continuous educational process in which both learner and teacher contribute and receive.

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