Agricultural Extension System (PDF)

by Sarthak Chowdhury, Debabrata Mondal

Agricultural Extension System analyzes India’s major reform initiatives implemented to create a broad-based demand-driven, and holistic agricultural extension system. The book presents latest innovations and reforms in agricultural extension as well as transfer of technology to the rural people. It provides a conceptual clarity and highlights trends of changes in extension work and gradual evaluation of the profession. It contributes to the ongoing debates on technology-productivity-growth with equity, with a detailed analysis of the complexities of the Indian extension system placing the farmer at the centre of the study.