The book provides an introductory knowledge about education extension education and agricultural extension by incorporating their definition meaning concepts objectives and principles which is basic to learners of extension education. The concepts have been depicted through adequate number of tables and figures to facilitate a structured reading and effect a functional understanding by the learners.
This book also provides basic knowledge about the concept objectives principles importance philosophy and problems limitation achievements strengths and weaknesses of various community or rural development programmes implemented from time to time for the benefit of rural mass both prior to independence and after the independence. The book also deals with the objectives and salient features of various agricultural development programmes viz.
This book has been written to serves as a Handbook of Extension Education for Horticulture forestry fisheries dairy science and allied disciplines in all the SAUs and extension education institutes planners administrators policy makers NGOs extension workers etc. involved in rural development in general and agricultural development in particular.
This book is expected to equip and arm the learners of extension education with the Dimensions of agricultural Extension to promote virtual education in agriculture and rural development. The virtual education would proceed from class room education to mass education and would cover distance learners from unreached communities including farmers and farm women.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR L L Somani
Dr. L L Somani (b. 1945) did his graduation and Ph.D. from the University of Udaipur, Udaipur. He had all through a brilliant academic career and also holds Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism. He was awarded Post-Doctoral Commonwealth Fellowship (1975-77) to undertake research at Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide (Australia). He has also served the Gujarat Agricultural University. He is currently working as Professor at S.K.N. College of Agriculture, Jobner. He has been honoured by the 'Dhiru Morarji Memorial Award' (1984) for agricultural Science by the Fertilizer Association of India. He has published over 200 papers and articles in national and international journals of repute. He is associated with several academic societies. Besides being the editor, compiler of monumental Dictionary of Agricultural and Allied Sciences Series, Dr. Somani has published many other outstanding books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR O P Sharma
Dr. Omprakash Sharma, Associate Professor in the Department of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur has an undergraduate teaching experience of more than twenty six years in the field of Limnology, Fisheries and Aquaculture. He has guided four Ph.D. and 16 M. Sc. (Ag.) in Limnology and Fisheries M.F.Sc. (aquaculture) students.Dr. Sharma has to his credit more than 40 research publications published in reputed national and international journals and proceedings as well as several articles on fishreises and aquaculture. He has been awarded Dr. Gopalju Srivastava merit certificate for best note in “Matsya”, a journal of Indian Society of Ichthyology, Madras.
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