Sunday, August 8, 2010

Agriculture Extension

India is primarily an agricultural country. Nearly 65 percent of the population earns its livelihood directly from agriculture. Agriculture provides food, raw materials for our agrobased industries and products for export. India has 51 percent of land under cultivation.
As whole of our country's food regulation sysytem as well as exports are dependent on our country's agriculture sector, agriculture extension is being introduced in the farmers. It is a kind of application of scientific research and new agricultural practices through farmer education. It organises the activity programmes for rural people which are conducted by professionals about the new techniques that should be adopted by the farmers to increase their production and soil fertility, it guides them about the new machinery that would make their work more easy, the use of fertilisers to protect their crops from pests.

There are many agriculture extension practices that are being intoduced for the welfare of farmers. Few days back, a YSR's IT application programme has been introduced by six software engineers who invested their own money to take agriculture research to farmers through information and communication technology in Andhra Pradesh.

Under this project each farmer was given advice on the latest agriculture technology according to the size of their land, soil quality of the seeds, suitable crops to be sown and the quality of the seeds to be sown. During the first phase of the project, farmers not only incresed their earnings but due to the good quality of the crops also received orders from Singapore and several retail orders from other harvests.

Agriculture Extension has helped farmers improving the quality of crops and also have helped in the increase of farmers knowledge, which would result in good production of food all over the country whereas it will improve our export rate also.
Source: Search engine Google and artice in Indian Express Newspaper

1 comment:

  1. simarjot,good. i wish rather than the definition you had given more information on the application program and how is it done as well as what crops are grown according to information supplied.

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