The spread of COVID-19 and the resultant lockdown have already started to affect agriculture and food security in Nepal. In this blog, Ram Hari Timilsina and...
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The unprecedented floods of August 2018 adversely affected Kerala’s agriculture. Rema K Nair, in this blog, reflects on how extension services came forward to...
Increasing farm distress and the resulting farmer suicides are areas that need urgent attention. A key aspect of any suicide prevention strategy is our ability...
Breaking the barriers of space, time, and cost, MOOCs redefined the global educational landscape by making content more universal. Though the debate is still...
In August 2015, the Government of India, renamed Ministry of Agriculture as Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW), explicitly recognizing...
As the year 2017 draws to a close, Sreeram Vishnu and Onima V. T. analyze the contents generated by the AESA web portal over the past five years (2013-2017)...
To remain relevant and to support addressing the rapidly evolving challenges in agriculture, extension professionals need to upgrade their competencies...
The recent demonetization exercise by the Indian Government has impacted farmers adversely, at least in the ‘short run’. At the same time, has it also opened...
Farmers can enhance their income if they start branding their commodities. Extension and Advisory Services should support farmers with branding their produce...
Among teaching, research and service in extension, teaching remains the most neglected. If we want to bring improvement in all these different dimensions of...
