Week-2 Types of education, Extension, research and farmers linkages
Education is aggregate of all the processes responsible for bringing about positive desirable changes in human behaviour.
Formal education is a chronologically graded and structured system of teaching at institutions from primary school to university.
Any organized systematic teaching outside the formal system for groups of people with particular needs. It includes:
1. Agricultural Extension
2. Adult literacy campaigns
3. Instruction in health and nutrition etc.
Informal education is lifelong process by which every person acquires knowledge, skills, attitudes and insight from daily experiences and exposure to the environment.
Course Material
- Week-1 Introduction to Agri. Extension
- Week-2 Types of education, Extension, research and farmers linkages
- Week-3 Brief history/recent trends in agricultural extension
- Week-4 Characteristics and problems of Pakistani farmers
- Week-5 Organizational setup of agricultural extension in Pakistan
- week-6 Rural development, definition, Objectives, importance and indicators
- Week-7 Elements of rural development process
- Week-8 Rural development through agricultural extension work in Pakistan
- Week-9 Current issues and problems of rural development and extension work in Pakistan
- Week-10 Roles and duties of extension workers at various organizational levels
- Week-11 Extension programs and activities since 1947 to date in Pakistan
- Week-12 Role of communication and ICT in Extension and Rural Development work
- Week-13 Emerging trends of rural development in Pakistan Principles of effective extension work
- Week-14 Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations
- Week-15 Agricultural Technology and its application for Pakistani farmers
- Week-16 Basic concept of planning, monitoring and evaluation in Agricultural Extension
- Chapters 16
- Department College of Agriculture
- Teacher
Dr. Muhammad Yaseen
