Extension Education and Socio Economics Section

1. About Section:

• This section plays important role in capacity development of stakeholders and dissemination of technologies and scientific practices developed by Institute since 1979. It has a sanctioned strength of four scientific posts (one senior scientist (Veterinary Extension Education), two scientists (Veterinary Extension Education) and one scientist (Agriculture Economics).

2. Objectives:

• To conduct research in Extension Education and Socio economics studies.
• To organize national training programmes on various aspects of goat production.
• To organize/ participate in exhibition/ kisan mela at various places of the country.
• To organize Transfer of technology program and other extension education activities.

3. Major Activities :

• Provide training to farmers through national training programme and sponsored training on scientific goat farming
• To organize/ participate in goat fair/ farmers fair/ exhibition
• Provide advisory services to farmers through telephone and farmers single window
• Organise field days/ farm days/ health camps
• Arrange on and off campus training program for goat farmers in adopted villages
• Conducting demonstrations, organising group discussion/ meetings etc
• Arranging farmers and students visits to various farms and sections of CIRG and replying to technical correspondence through letter and E mail

4. Major achievements :

During last three years (2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18),

• About 1200 farmers and other stakeholders were trained on scientific goat farming.
• About 12000 farmers/officers/staff/ students and other stakeholders visited the farmers single window/ EESE section to get benefit of scientific knowhow of goat production technologies.
• We have participated in more than 25 exhibitions/mela in different parts of country to showcase Institute technologies.
• We have been receiving hundreds of call/queries from different stakeholders on our HELPLINE service per month.
• A total of 3582 help line calls and 338 numbers of technical correspondences were replied in last three years.

5. Services offered :

• Providing trainings to farmers and other stakeholders through conduction of six numbers of national training programmes on scientific goat farming each year of eight days duration on payment basis.
• Organising sponsored training programs for different stakeholders.
• Providing advisory services to farmers through farmers� single window and telephone helpline (0565-2763320) as well as replying to various technical queries through letter and E mail.
• Arranging farmers/ students/ other stakeholders� visits at Institute.
• Providing consultancy services to entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.
• Disseminating scientific technologies and practise of goat rearing by using different mass media tools.

6.Infrastructure/ facility :

• Farmer s single window having telephone helpline facility to address the different issues of farmers/stakeholders.
• A class room having well equipped facility to train farmers.
• A museum to display all technologies and practices developed by Institute.

7. Scientific staff :

Name of Scientist	Designation	Discipline	Mobile No	Email
Dr. A.K. Dixit	Principal Scientist & In charge	Agricultural Economics	0565-2970999	anupam.dixit@icar.gov.in
Dr.Khushyal singh	Senior Scientist	Agriculture Extension	0565-2970999	khushyal.singh@icar.gov.in

8. Technology/ product developed:

• Methodology developed to access the economic loss due to PPR disease in goats
• A tool to assess the preliminary cause of morbidity and mortality in goats
• Developed a statistical model to find out relation for abortion in goats due to Brucellosis and other than that.
• Developed more than 100 posters/model of Institute technologies.

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