Enhancing Resilience: Integrated Pluralistic Agricultural Extension Approach-Blueprint for Agricultural Transformation

Mathuabirami V, Karthikeyan C, Nirmala Devi M, Paul Mansingh

2024

Abstract

The Extension advisory systems have been playing a crucial role at the frontline of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in rural areas. In Tamil Nadu for implementing agriculture related schemes, policy and to deliver extension advisory services to farming community there is separate wing called State Department of Agriculture. The activities of state department of agriculture were supplemented through other stakeholders such as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), private sector, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), farmer groups for delivering extension advisory services to farmers. The EAS provider has proven very instrumental for national and local governments as well as for rural communities during the pandemic in bridging the information gap. Service providers such as state department of agriculture and its line departments, KVK, input dealers, FPO and NGO worked together for delivering EAS to the farming community in order to combat the challenges raised during the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering the importance of EAS provided by various service providers during pandemic it is required to propose an integrated pluralistic extension approach i.e., method of using public and private organization, NGOs/ Voluntary organization for delivering service to the farming community in response to pandemic. So far there is no pluralistic extension approach for delivering services to the farming community during COVID 19 pandemic and also some unanticipated pandemic. Therefore the pluralistic approach developed through this study would be helpful for farmers, policymakers, extension professionals and the scientists to cope with not only COVID-19 pandemic situation but also any unanticipated pandemic in future that affect their normal mode of delivering extension advisory and developmental services to farmers. IPAE refers to the collaboration of extension service providers ie., State department of agriculture and its line departments, Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), input dealers, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and Non Government Organizations (NGOs) to provide forward and backward linkage to farmers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

V M., C K., M N. and Mansingh P. (2024). Enhancing Resilience: Integrated Pluralistic Agricultural Extension Approach-Blueprint for Agricultural Transformation. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: ICEISA; ISBN 978-989-758-714-6, SciTePress, pages 168-179. DOI: 10.5220/0012886100004519

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceisa24,
author={Mathuabirami V and Karthikeyan C and Nirmala M and Paul Mansingh},
title={Enhancing Resilience: Integrated Pluralistic Agricultural Extension Approach-Blueprint for Agricultural Transformation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: ICEISA},
year={2024},
pages={168-179},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012886100004519},
isbn={978-989-758-714-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: ICEISA
TI - Enhancing Resilience: Integrated Pluralistic Agricultural Extension Approach-Blueprint for Agricultural Transformation
SN - 978-989-758-714-6
AU - V M.
AU - C K.
AU - M N.
AU - Mansingh P.
PY - 2024
SP - 168
EP - 179
DO - 10.5220/0012886100004519
PB - SciTePress