University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, has
launched the Diploma in Agricultural Extension Services for Input
Dealers (DAESI) course. The course is offered at nine colleges that fall
under the university across Hyderabad Karnataka region, including two
on the main campus here.
Addressing the inaugural
event at the auditorium of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, P.M. Salimath,
Vice-Chancellor of the university, said that the course would help
create skilled manpower to fill the widening gap between agriculture
extension and agriculture research. “The area of agriculture extension
is suffering with lack of skilled manpower while the area of
agricultural research is doing fairly well. Creation of skilled
workforce in the field of extension would facilitate quick transfer of
advanced technologies to the farming community,” he said.
Kurma
Rao, Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat, who inaugurated
the event, said, “Farming sector has seen a sea change over the last
couple of decades. Traditional crops have rapidly been replaced by newer
crop verities that are resilient to climatic change and resistant to
pests as well as being high yielding. Even traditional farming methods
are also replaced by modern methods that have incorporated advanced
technologies.
“The process could be even faster
provided the knowledge about newer technologies is quickly imparted to
the farming community. The course would help this happen.”
S.K.
Meti, Director of Extension, said that the spread of knowledge about
agricultural technologies could be more effective only when dealers of
farm inputs too join hands with the agricultural universities in the
task of knowledge dissemination among the farming community.
Kiran
Kumar, Joint Director of Agriculture, Pramod Katti, Nodal Officer for
DAESI Programme, Amaresh Y.S., and Programme Coordinator, home scientist
M.R. Kammar were present.
Source : The Hindu
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