Farmer led extension i

University extension must design Farmers' Led Extension Programme for better participation of farmers and execution of programme.

1. Farmer Led Extension: Concept
R P Singh
Associate Director Extension

2. Agricultural Extension Prog.
•Plant Protection Programme
•Organic Farming Programme
•Crop Insurance Scheme
•Agriculture Credit Scheme
•Soil and Water Conservation
Programme
•Technology Transfer scheme
•Micro Watershed Development
Program

3. Horticultural Extension
•Horticulture Technology Mission
•Food Processing
•Tea Garden Development
•Harbal Research and Development
•Sericulture Development
•Litchi Export Zone
•Apiculture
•Organization of Horticultural produce
Marketing

4. Animal Husbandry Extension
•Veterinary Clinics and Disease
Control
•Poultry Development
•Sheep and Wool Development
•Angora Rabbit Rearing
•Piggery Development
•National Cattle and Bulow Breeding
Project
•Integrated Wool Development
•Employment Generation through
Animal
•Fodder Development
•Dairy Development

5. Fisheries Extension
•Fishery Development
•Fishery Rearing Development
Agency
•Fingerling Production
•Coldwater fishery Development
•National Fishermen Welfare Scheme
•Database Information and
networking
•Conservation of lakes and ponds

6. Cooperative extension
•Farmers Housing Scheme
•Farmers Protection scheme
•Integrated cooperative
Development Scheme
•Establishment of Mini Banks
•Cooperative Participatory
Scheme

7. National Schemes
•RKVY
•Jawahar Rojgar Guarentee Scheme
•Agricultural Technology
Management Agency
•Krishi Vigyan Kendra
•Hariyali Scheme
•Watershed Development
•Forest Conservation and
development

8. Participation of Farmers
•Participation requirement
•Participation position
•Participation level
•Physical Participation
•Economical Participation
•Mental Participation
•Complete Participation

9. Empowerment of
farmers
•Farmers opportunity
•Farmers decision
•Farmers organization
•Market information to the
farmers
•Farmers managed research
•Farmers based Extension

10. Farmers role in
Research
RR FF
RF FR

11. Changing Role of
Farmers
•Beneficiary
•Facilitator
•Decision Maker
•Manager
•Executor

12. Extension Strategy of 21
st
Century
•A primary goal is how to reduce investment in
agricultural extension while maintaining food security.
•India is in the process of privatizing its input system to
improve farmer access to purchased inputs and to
create a more efficient input supply system.
•Indian extension system will likely shift its attention to
pressing natural resource management problems, while
leaving the task of transferring crop management
technologies to private sector dealers.
•To make extension and the overall technology transfer
system more demand-driven and responsive to farmer
needs.
•Privatizing the input supply system increases its
efficiency as well as farmer access to improved
technology.

13. FARM SCHOOL

14. FARM SCHOOL

15. FARM SCHOOL

16. FARM SCHOOL

17. Farmer Field School
•The Farmer Field School is evolved from the concept
that farmers learn optimally from field observation and
experimentation in 1989 (Indonesia).
•In this cyclical learning process, farmers develop the
expertise that enables them to make their own crop
management decisions.
•Farmers Field Schools (FFS): A Group Extension
Process Based on Adult Non-Formal Education
Methods.
•If I hear it, I forget it. If I see it, I remember it. If I
discover it, I own it for life.
•Technically strong facilitator
•Based on crop phenology and time limited
•Group study
•Field School Site
•Activity flow in IPM
Training of Trainers F F S Community Action

18. Farmer to Farmers visit
•With in District
•With in State
•Inter State