Extension Education System in India and U.S.A.

In the present context of liberalized economy and globalization of agriculture time has come now for extension education to cope up with the changing scenario. Whatever the nature and complexity of extension system, it tends to deal with the practical information that is useful to rural people in helping to solve their daily problems, especially those relating to agriculture production. The extension system make the farmer equipped with practical scientific know-how and through the change system prepare the farmers for call for components according to their situation. Agriculture extension education systems tend to vary from place to place around the world, and yet certain commonalities are found in all of them. This is also true in the case of comparative study of Haryana Agricultural University to that of Rutger’s University of New Jersey State of U.S.A. This book achieved its purpose to give you a comparative out look of the two extension education systems, availability of financial and man-power resources and the monitoring and evaluation pattern being followed. It also spell out the areas and aspects in which the system can be improved and thus provide new directions to extension systems. This beautifully illustrated, grippingly readable book from Dr. Kundu is expected to be of much help to the scholars, trainers and scientists in the field of agricultural extension and allied sectors in general and agricultural development administrators, policy planners and technology transfer personnel in particular.