Department of Agriculture Extension Education
Introduction
The term extension was first used in the United States of America in the first decade of this century to connote the extension of knowledge from the Land Grant Colleges to the farmers through the process of informal education. Extension education as the means to achieve objective & all round development of rural people.
Extension education is an applied behavioural science, the knowledge of which is applied to bring about desirable changes in the complex behaviour of human beings usually through various strategies & programmes of change & by applying the latest scientific & technological innovations.
Extension education has now developed as a full-fledged discipline, having its own philosophy, objectives, principles, methods & techniques which must be understood by every extension worker & others connected with the rural development. It might be mentioned here that extension education, its principles, methods & techniques are applicable not only to agriculture but also to veterinary & animal husbandry, dairying, home science, health, family planning, etc. Based upon its application & use, various nomenclatures have been given to it, such as agricultural extension, veterinary & animal husbandry extension, dairy extension, home science extension, public health extension, & family planning extension.
Importance:
- Extension uses democratic methods in educating the farmers.
- Extension Helps in adoption of innovations.
- Extension helps in studying and solving the rural problems.
- Extension increases farm yields and improve the standard of living of farmers
- Extension makes good communities better and progressive.
- Extension contributes to national development programmes
Scope:
It includes all activities of rural development. So extension programmes should be dynamic and flexible. The areas indicating scope of Extension are listed below:
- Increasing efficiency in agricultural production.
- Increasingefficiency in marketing, distribution and utilization of agricultural inputs and outputs
- Conservation, development and use of natural resources.
- Proper farm and home management
- Better family living.
- Youth development.
- Leadership development.
- Community and rural development.
- Improving public affairs for all round development.
Specific Objectives
- To raise the standard of living of the rural people by helping them in right use of their resources.
- The dissemination of useful & practical information relating to agriculture, including improved seeds, fertilizers, implements, pesticides, improved cultural practices, dairying, poultry, nutrition, etc.
- The practical application of useful knowledge to farm& home.
- To provide facilities for better family living.
- To provide knowledge and help for better management of farms and increase incomes.
- To encourage the farmers to grow more food, eat well and live well.
- To promote better social, natural recreational intellectual and spiritual file among the people.
- To build rural citizens who are:
- Proud of their occupation
- Independent in thinking.
- Constructive in outlook.
- capable, efficient and self-reliant in character
- having love of home and country m their heart
Courses Agricultural Extension Education
Agril. Extension Education
| Sr. No. | Semester | Course No. | Credits | Course Title |
| 1 | I | EXTN 111 | 2(2+0) | Rural Sociology & Educational Psychology |
| 2 | II | EXTN 122 | 3(2+1) | Fundamentals of Agricultural Extension Education |
| 3 | II | EXTN 123 | 2(1+1) | Communication Skills and personality Developments (Common Course) |
| 4 | IV | ELE EXTN 244 | 3(2+1) | Agricultural Journalism |
| 5 | V | EXTN 355 | 2(1+1) | Entrepreneurship Development and Business Communication (Common Course) |
List of Books
| Sr. No. | Name of Book | Author |
| 1 | Education and Communication For Development | O. P. Dahama |
| 2 | Text Book on Agricultural Communication: Process & Method | A. S. Santhu |
| 3 | An Introduction to Extension Education | S. V. Supe |
| 4 | Extension Communication & Management | G. L. Ray |
| 5 | Rural Sociology in India | A. R. Desai |
| 6 | Introductory Rural Sociology | J. B. Chitamber |
| 7 | Educational Psychology | C. E. Skinner |
| 8 | Hand Book Of Extension Education | O. S. Rathore |
| 9 | Text book of Entrepreneurship & Rural Development | S. Mandal |
| 10 | Agriculture Extension Impact & Assessment | A. K. Singh |
| 11 | Objective Fundamentals for Professions Extension Education | N. Pavel |
| 12 | Communication Skill for Extension Work | P. N. Kalla |
| 13 | Fundamentals of Rural Sociology & Educational Psychology | Tidake/ Kote |
| 14 | Dimensions of Agriculture Extension | Mendhe/ Tekale/ Ghadekar |
| 15 | Transfer of Agricultural Technology | Chole/ Kapse/ Deshmukh |
| 16 | Extension Methodologies for transfer of Agricultural Technology | Rajlaxmi Prakashan |
| 17 | Entrepreneurship Development And Communication Skill | Chole/ Kapse/ Deshmukh |
| 18 | Journalism Farm Journalism Communication Skill | G. L. Ray |
| 19 | Objective Agriculture Extension | Penu Arya |
List of Equipment
| Sr. no. | Name of the Equipment |
| 1 | Sound System |
| 2 | LCD Projector |
| 3 | Overhead Projector |
| 4 | Camera |
| 5 | Digital cum video Camera |
| 6 | Smart Board |
| 7 | Radio |
| 8 | Television With Set top Box |
| 9 | Tape Recorder |
| 10 | Slide projector |
| 11 | VCD/ DVD player |
| 12 | Demonstration Material (Posters, Leaflet, Booklet, etc.) |
List of charts
| Sr. No. | Items |
| 1. | Extension teaching |
| 2. | Extension communication system |
| 3. | Steps in programme planning |
| 4. | Adopter’s category |
| 5. | Extension organization in Panchayati Raj setup |
| 6. | Types of projection |
| 7. | Factors affecting intelligence |
| 8. | Difference between formal and informal education |
| 9. | Innovativeness |
| 10. | Learning and element s of learning situation |
| 11. | Principles of learning |
| 12. | Educational psychology |
| 13. | Result demonstration |
| 14. | Classification of teaching methods |
| 15. | Film projector |
| 16. | Slide projector |
| 17. | Getting to now camera |
| 18. | Method demonstration |
| 19. | Types of graphs |
| 20. | Leadership |
| 21. | Communication model |
| 22. | LCD projector |
| 23. | Social stratification |
| 24. | National Extension system |
| 25. | Forms of culture |
| 26. | Learning situations |
| 27. | Sociology |
| 28. | Structure of culture |
| 29. | Personality |
| 30. | Intelligence theory |
| 31. | Innovation decision process |
| 32. | Development with social justice |
| 33. | Women development programme and agriculture development programme |
| 34. | Group discussion- conference |
| 35. | Characteristics of an entrepreneur |
| 36. | Development programmer in pre independence and post-independence era |
| 37. | Relative effect of extension teaching method |
| 38. | Organizational pattern of training and visit system of agriculture Extension |
| 39. | Difference between Extension education and community development programme |
| 40. | Normal distribution of intelligence level |