Roles and duties of extension workers
The role of extension worker while living among rural people is to bring necessary change in individual and collective behaviour and motivating them. For this, extension worker is required to have knowledge about psychological factors, extension related training and technological knowledge.
Course Material
- Agricultural extension, its definition, objectives and importance
- Education and its types
- Brief history/recent trends in Agri. Extension
- Organizational structure (Hierarchy) of Agricultural Extension in Punjab
- Characteristics and problems of Pakistani farmers
- Rural development, its definitions/concept, objectives, importance and indicators
- Rural development and Agricultural Extension
- Current issues and problems of rural development in Pakistan
- Roles and duties of extension workers
- Role of Agri. Extension in technology transfer
- Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations
- Role of ICTs in Extension and Rural Development
- Planning in Agri. Extension
- Chapters 13
- Department College of Agriculture
- Teacher
Dr. Gulfam Hasan,
