I am Prakashkumar Rathod again, responding to Dr. Purushottam Sharma (Message 39). With huge infrastructure, public and private sector agencies are struggling to educate the farmers on scientific practices. Although heavy investments are made on generation and transfer of technologies, very few of them are adopted by farmers and very few of them are aware about the same. It is interesting to note that the majority of farmers in India are not connected to any organizations or producer organizations (POs) for accessing the information. The population of farmers who require information or who never search information is more as compared to farmers searching for information. Hope, this requires an effective capacity building by the extension and advisory services. The questions that can arise are: 1. Do we have need-based information to satisfy the needs of different categories of farmers based on their socio-economic conditions (may be for small, marginal etc.)? 2. Do we have appropriate and field-relevant technologies for different categories of farmers based on their socio-economic conditions (may be for small, marginal etc.)? Dr. Prakashkumar Rathod Research Scholar Division of Extension Education, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar India e-mail: pkrkvafsu (at) gmail.com [To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] For further information, see http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/news/detail/en/c/264776/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RAS-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=RAS-L&A=1