Agricultural Resources Information System (AgRIS): An e ...

marketing, pricing, and rural infrastructure (water, roads,
bridges, hospitals and schools). India has concrete policies for
the provision and maintenance of rural infrastructure such as
roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools. This leaves the agrarian
reform program to take care of the more direct agriculture land
and water issues. These are the problems that the farming
households are constantly in conflict with each other, when it
comes to sharing common resources such as land and water.
Strengthening small-scale agriculture and related rural industries
bring vital benefits for rural economy.
13.15 Agricultural Extension programmes need to be
oriented towards enhancing the decision-making abilities of rural
people, especially farmers, by expanding their exposure to
effective organization and management skills, not just new
agricultural production technologies alone i.e. “knowledge-
intensive”. The task of extension would become more challenging
in the wake of post WTO era, which demands a “system of
market-led extension” with specific focus on diversification,
post-harvest management, and export orientation. The
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