Agriculture Extension and Sustainable Rural Development

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The agricultural scenario is rapidly changing with a host of challenges due to degradation of natural resources, climate change and socio economic factors on one hand and other hand with an emerging potential apportunities arising due to changing food preferences, increasing demand of secondary agriculture and enhanced access to domestic and international market. In view of this, agricultural extension has to be more vibrant to address the challenges and exploit potentialities by the concerned stakeholders. Realizing these requirements this book has been devised with five thematic areas 1. Rural youth and skill development, 2. Farming systems and approaches to sustainability, 3. Extension management and support for rural employability, 4. Management of agribusiness and 5. Gender empowerment and main streaming in which learned extension experts from all over India have contributed their experiences.

Contents: Preface. I. Rural Youths and skill development. II. Farming systems and approaches to sustainability. III. Extension management and support for rural employability. IV. Rural management of agribusiness. V. Gender empowerment and mainstreaming.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR U S Gautam

U.S. Gautam (Born on 23rd January 1963) is Zonal Project Director, ZPD, Zone VII, ICAR, JNKVV Campus, Adhartal Jabalpur, (MP). He was Head, Socio Economic and Extension Research Programme (2001 to 2004) at ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, Bihar. He started his career as Assistant Extension Specialist, Agriculture Extension from Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishwa Vidhyalaya, RRS and KVK at Kullu in Nov. 1989, after completing his Ph.D. in Dairy Extension from NDRI, Karnal in Nov. 1989.

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Title
Agriculture Extension and Sustainable Rural Development
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788176223713
Length
xiv+413p., Tables; Figures
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