Extension agencies globally face the twin challenges of limited finances and manpower. However, some extension agencies manage these challenges and achieve...
Extension Approaches
Farm Business Advisors (FBA) overcome the last mile distribution gap of agricultural information and technology to small-scale farmers. Of all the iDE country...
The proposed transformation of agriculture into an enterprise needs two significant shifts. Firstly, a conceptual shift in thinking on the role of the state...
Over the years, extension professionals have employed non-profit approaches for entrepreneurship development with non-IPR technologies for transforming farmers...
Though the “diffusion of innovations” paradigm proposed by Everett M Rogers has largely been criticized by many researchers, the current extension curriculum...
“Is it not strange that agriculture in India has transformed itself, while the public extension has lost its way? The supply-driven extension, now regarded as...
Though the Indian National Agricultural Research System has initiated several measures to support commercialisation of agricultural technologies, a lot more...
Extension needs new theories, frameworks and a shift in its current approach if it has to remain relevant. Reverse extension offers one way of reinventing its...
While entrepreneurship has been talked about since many years, agripreneurship is something which we started discussing only recently. Dr Mahesh Chander...
Though agribusiness incubators are important to promote entrepreneurship and commercialization of new technologies in agriculture, the incubators are yet to...