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Training |
Large number of training programmes were organized by Directorate of Extension Education during 2004-05 for different levels of clienteles. The details of the number of OFF campus and on campus training programmes organized by the Directorate of Extension Education are given below.
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a) Off Campus Training |
The following Topics were covered during Off Campus training programmes arranged by the different departments for the farmers.
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b) On Campus Training Programme |
Agri-Clinic and Agri-Business Management |
One training programme for unemployed graduates of Agriculture and allied disciplines on Agri-clinics and Agri-Business management were organized by the Directorate of Extension Education during the period under report. The main objective of the training was to motivate the unemployed graduates to set up their own Agri-Clinic and Agri-Business centers and offer professional extension services to farmers. |
Supervisor's Training Programme |
This is a central sector scheme sponsored by Ministry of human resource development, Govt. of India, New Delhi . The programme started from the year 2000 with objective to generate resource persons in the field of Horticulture and build capabilities to adopt Horticulture as a means of self-employed. Twenty five students having the qualification of intermediate or equivalent were trained during the period under report. |
c) Training under women's employment programme under N.A.T.P. |
Farm women are considered to be the most crucial working force in agriculture. Very little attention has been paid till now to develop their skills. They provide physical labour in crop and animal production, post-harvest operations including processing, and contribute income to the household as well as participate in decision making, however, they are largely “invisible” because, no systematic effort has been done to reflect their economic contribution in agriculture. Simultaneously, the technological changes have bypassed women by denying them in imparting knowledge, skill, training and extension support services. This has raised several gender issues and concerns in agricultural development, which requires to be addressed through appropriate strategies for rural women's empowerment. |
Training is a powerful means of empowerment. Farmer's training is a kind of learning process where selected group of individuals undergo learning experience to internalize the skills, resulting in the modification of behavior towards specific job experience. Thus training is viewed to be the process of developing or augmenting knowledge, skill and attitude which leads to empowerment. |
Keeping these facts in view, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) sponsored a special training programme for empowerment of women in agriculture under the National Agricultural Technology Project(NATP), Consequently, Department of Extension Education, Birsa Agricultural University , Ranchi (Jharkhand) put up a project proposal. The proposal was approved by the Council for conducting 5 no. of location-specific and need-based training programmes. The programmes were conducted during 2004-2005 in selected villages of Namkum Block in Ranchi district.
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