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agricultural practices that preserve natural resources while
enhancing the productivity.
13.5 The farm is a business and the farm manager (farmer)
needs to optimise the returns from their agricultural investment.
The interactions between agricultural systems and practices,
economics, society and the environment are highly complex.
The Agricultural Extension is medium-term and long-term
investment in the same way as education and research. Resource
commitments for agricultural extension, research and education
have been diminishing over the years (http://www.fao.org), and
especially the public spending on extension is shrinking. There
is ample room for improving productivity, as shown in the Table-
3.
13.6 There are four types of actors involved in the agricultural
extension: public agencies, private agencies (input suppliers etc),
production organisations (POs), and NGOs. Agricultural Extension
and its services involve basic functions such as informal,
dissemination, advisory, and educational. The Agricultural
Extension System Infrastructure in India includes: -
• Agricultural Extension Officials (Full time) in States - 90000
(approximately)
• Extension Education Institutions (EEIs) including MANAGE - 5
• Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in 252 Districts - 261
(Proposed to have one KVK in every district)
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