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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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This is Dr. Kumaran again. 

Thank you for enriching all of us through the e-conference and it is innovative.

A few points I wish to make in general.

- Extension personnel are mostly busy with implementing welfare schemes. Should this job be assigned to a non-technical people in the department OR make an 'employee segmentation' by providing this job alone to a selected few and the remaining people can concentrate only on technical service provision ?

- Budgeting for extension work should be there specifically.

- Economically viable farming modules are expected by the younger generation farmers and otherwise it is difficult to retain them in farming. Hence, location specific, sector specific (agri, horti, animal husbandry, fisheries), farmer specific (small, medium, large), economically viable farming models are the need of the hour. Researchers and extension workers should jointly develop such models and demonstrate. Market intelligence is a core area the extension personnel need capacity enhancement. Branding of products (local and regional) is very important for their unique and niche position.

- Professionalism - scientifically explaining and convincing the concept - is very much needed for the extension workers. The personal appearance, outlook of extension personnel needs a radical change. Even a dress code can be thought of for extension workers.

- Engaging press and media for information dissemination and getting visibility/show case the 'good extension work done' is also very important and keeps the subject in the front line.

- Networking of extension professionals and e-conferences like this are important to give proper perspective to the discipline, exchange of field experiences and sometimes counter the unworthy criticisms on the discipline per se.

Thank you all for the nice intellectual get together.

Dr. M. Kumaran
Principal Scientist (Agricultural Extension) 
Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), 
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), 
Chennai, 
India
e-mail: mkumaran (at) ciba.res.in

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