Agricultural extension is the backbone for rapid rural development through profitable agriculture especially to the rural poor in the developing world. In such situation, extension workers play a vital role in educating farmers to produce better crops and gain more income from farming. The very success of extension programmers depends upon its capability to cater the needs of rural people. It has been observed that several technologies demonstrated and adopted by the beneficiaries could not last longer after withdrawal of the said programmers. This may be due to improper feedback apropos programmes and/or lack of interest on the part of the beneficiaries. In fact, regular feedback from clientele regarding functioning of the programmes offers an opportunity to the planners and implementers fro required functioning of the programmes offers and opportunity to the planners and implementers for required modifications will on time and implementers for required modification sell on time and accordance with the aspiration of the programmes at larger scale. The book explains the concurrent situation of agricultural extension system in India along with new extension approaches for further use. In addition, it elaborates the conceptual background of feedback mechanism with suitable examples. This book also throws light on conducting researches on feedback in extension perspective. The book will be very useful to policy makers, teachers, planners, researchers, agriculturists, NGO personnel and all those engaged in rural development through agriculture and allied sectors. Besides, scholars aspiring for ARS, SRF, JRF and NET can also refer this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shyam Ranjan Kumar Singh
Shyam Ranjan Kumar Singh was born on 7th January, 1973 at Mehda Shahpur, Begusarai (Bihar_. Presently, heis working as scientist (Agricultrual Extension) in the Social Science Section at Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (ICAR), Almore. he obtained his Bachelor Degree in Agriculture from Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu Univeristy, Varanasi (U.P.) in 1997. he Completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Dairy Extension at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnall (Haryana) during 1999 and 2002, respectively. He topped in agricultural Research Service Examination conducted during 1999 in Agricultural Extension discipline and joined service in 2002 at VPLAS, Almore. He received merit scholarship during B.Sc. (Ag), Junior research fellowship in M.Sc. (Dairying), and Senior Research Fellowship during Ph.D. at NDRI, Marnal. The author has published 13 research articles in reputed journals. Persently he is engaged in Research and Extension in hills with speical emphasis on horticultural crops.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sujeet Kumar Jha
Sujeet Kumar Jha was born on 19th September, 1966 at Baraur, Madhubani (Bihar). Presently , he is a Senior Scientist (Agricultural Extension) and faculty member in the Division of Dairy Extension, National dairy Research Institute, Karnal. He completed his B.Sc. (Ag. & A.H.) and M.Sc. (Agricultural Communication and Extension) at GBPUA & T, Pantnagar. He obtained Ph.D. (Extension Education) from IVRI, Izatnagar, Bareilly (U.P). He was recipient of UNDP-ICAR Fellowship during P.G. and Institute SRF during Ph.D. programme. He joined ARS (Agricultural Research Service) in 1919 Batch, and has around eleven years of experience in Research, Teaching and Extension. So far, he has guided four M.Sc. students and published around 40 reseaerch/popular articles in the reputed journals. He has handled two research projects as Principal Investigator, and was associated with prestigiuos projects like Indo-Sdwiss Project, NATP/IVLP, ets. Besides, he has also contributed as Referee for five pristigious journals. He is a life Member of ISEE, ISAPM, AND SEE.
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