Year: 2014 | Month: December | Volume 3 | Issue 4
Agricultural Extension Roles of Farm Scientist: An Empirical Study
Chandan Kumar Panda
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Abstract:
Farm scientists working in a university must have to work with the goals of the organization. As per the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), farm scientists have to perform extension role along with teaching and research. The extension roles includes number of activities starting from writing farmer friendly literature to conducting training, visiting the farmers field and so on. The farm scientists are the driving force for the agricultural transformation. Keeping these in view, the present study was under taken among the farm scientists of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya of West Bengal. The result, of this empirical study revealed that, farm and home visit, training of farmers, demonstration in the farm fields were the major extension activities that were performed by the farm scientists on a regular basis. The major perceived constraints were inadequate modern scientific equipments, inadequate transport facilities, non-availability of labours during trial and demonstration, paucity of funds for research and lack of co-ordination among the scientists of various disciplines.
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