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Revamping the Technology Dissemination Process through Farm Science Centre

K. Pradhan and Kuntal Mukherjee

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As concerns about environmental protection, natural resource stewardship, and the India’s ability to feed evergrowing populations continue to mount, the sustainability of agriculture and natural resources is emerging as a central theme among the public and policymakers alike. In the changed scenario, with the vertical expansion of the agricultural innovation, agricultural extension system in India is more of informative extension or knowledge intensive extension embedded with the traditional social system than emancipatory extension. The paradigm shift of demand driven extension from supply driven extension gives rise to a new institutional, single window extension system of Farm Science Centre. In such a research climate, the present paper envisages the general impact of a remmandated farm science centre, situated at Cooch Behar district in the light of developing attitude, gaining knowledge and increasing exposure to communication sources. It also identifies the correlates in characterizing the impacts of the farm science centre for revamping the existing farm level technology dissemination process. The study was conducted at Coochbehar II block of Coochbehar District in West Bengal. The study revealed that the attributes cosmopoliteness, training received, risk orientation and adoption leadership of the adopted farmer had effective contribution in characterizing the impact of remmandated farm science centre

Keyword: Environmental protection;

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