Self-Directed work teams for sustainable linkages

a new approach for Agricultural development

Abstract

Agricultural extension in India has undergone several transformations since independence. The focus of extension reveals a steady progression towards technology transfer within the policy framework of food security. A significant development was the Training and Visit (T & V) extension management system in the mid-seventies. However, there has been a growing recognition that though T & V approach has made an important contribution to agricultural development it needed to be overhauled in meeting farmer~' technology requirements during 2ist century. It was recognized that extension needed to broad base its programmes by utilizing a Farming System Approach, allow for greater location specify in programmes, secure greater farmer participation and ~strengthening linkage between research, extension, farmers and marketing