T. Rathakrishnan
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The book participatory Technology Development: A Technique of indigenous technical knowledge refinement comprehensively presenting in depth about participatory technology development, experimentation, indigenous wisdom of the farming community, perception aspects of farmers, scientists and extension personnel towards PTD and technology transfer process. This will enable the different category of users namely the researchers, field extension workers, NGO ...
"Extension education is no more an out -- of -- school education alone. The science and practice of extension has been found useful for environment, health, education, small industries as well. There have been many changes in the way extension should be organized. Privatization of extension is seriously being considered, extension has also been added as the third dimension of general universities as well, participatory methods of extension are being tried ...
"Newer technologies for increasing agricultural production are now becoming available at a much faster rate. But the mechanism for transferring them to the uneducated and small producers in an effective manner does not exist. There is an urgent need for a communication network at the service of the poor farmers in our country like the global communication net work which makes the latest findings available without delay to research workers in any particular ...