Böcker av M M Adhikary

The present book has been designed to cover the undergraduate syllabus of Agricultural Heritage as per ICAR 5th Deans' Committee report. It covers the entire syllabus in one concise volume, which is spread over in 16 chapters viz. introduction to Indian agricultural heritage, ancient agricultural practices and present day agriculture, past and present status of agriculture and farmers, astronomy: prediction of monsoon, ancient soil classification and soil fertility, irrigation and water harvesting, description of Indian civilization and agriculture by travellers, Indian agriculture from past to modern era, plant protection through indigenous traditional method, crop voyage in India and world, history of rice, sugarcane and cotton, gardening in ancient and medieval period: arbori-horticulture orchard, vegetable farming: floriculture perfumes and medicinal plants, crop significance and its classification, importance, scope, researches and national agricultural setup, current scenario of Indian agriculture. Presentation of the book is simple, lucid and unambiguous for easy understanding of the subject matter. It is hoped that this book will be greater use for undergraduate students of agriculture, teachers, extension workers and all other interested in agricultural heritage.

The book "Perspective of Extension Education" has certainly been a selection by the time itself, not by the choice of the author himself. The book has accommodated all possible innovative aspects of extension sciences along with its basic and classical contents. The book has been in full compliance with the UG & PG students' course guidelines as delineated by the ICAR, New Delhi. The chapterisation being: Part I- Basis of Extension Education: Fundamental of Extension Education; Modern Agricultural Extension; Managing Human Resource Planning within Extension; Training and Evaluation in Extension; Gender Analysis in Agriculture; Extension Role in Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development; Monitoring and Evaluation for Agricultural Extension Programmes; Role of Extension in Sustainable Agricultural Development and The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Extension, Part 2- Society with Sociology and Psychology: Rural Sociology; Rural Government; Society with Sociology; Culture and Society and Educational Psychology, Part 3-Rural Development, Rural Development; Developmental Programmes of Pre-independence Era and Post-independence Era; CDP; Organization Set Up in Agricultural Development Programme; Basic Elements of Rural Development; Reorganized Extension System, Part 4- Participatory Development, Participatory Technology Development and Participatory Extension and Participatory Research, Part 5 - Training and Development, Training; Methods of Training; Trainer's Role and Responsibility; The Process of Learning and Training Module, Part 6 - Communication and Diffusion of Innovations, Concept and Element of Communication; Models of Communication; Principles of Effective Communication; Theories and Functions of communication; Barriers to communication; Some Relevant Terminologies in Communication; Agricultural Communication & Journalism; Diffusion and Innovation, Part 7 - Audio-Visual Aids, Meaning and Classification of AV Aids and Part 8 - Research, Teaching and Extension, History of Agricultural Research in India; Establishment of the ICAR; Agricultural Universities; KVK; ATMA and Different Extension Programmes in India. The book will be welcome by a galaxy of scholars and professionals and keep generating valuable feed back in reconstructing it in due course of time.]

The present book has certainly been a selection by the time itself, not by the choice of the author himself. The book has been in full compliance with the course guidelines delineated by the ICAR, New Delhi. It will certainly be followed by the UG & PG students, research scholars, academicians and the teachers of all the Universities across the country and abroad. The book has accommodated all possible innovative aspects of training of extension sciences along with its basic and classical contents. The chapterisation being: Part: I- Training: 1. Training and Development; 2. Methods of Training; 3. The trainer's role and responsibility; 4. Training Aids; 5. Training Evaluation; 6. Training Module or Course Evaluation and 7. Organizing and managing a training course Part: II- Training Process: Ideas and Outlining, 8. Assess and agree training needs; 9. Create Training or Development Specification; 10. Consider Learning Styles and personality Howard Gardner"s Multiple intelligences 11. Erikson's Psychological Development theory; 12. Johari Window; 13. Plan training and evaluation; 14. Design materials, methods and deliver training; 15. Meeting and 16. Writing tips Part: III- Methods of Delivery, 17. Presentation & lectures; 18. Interactive mini-lecture; 19. Small group exercise; 20. Discussions; 21. Group discussions; 22. Role Play; 23. Who are the Trainers and can you became a Trainer?; 24. The demonstration method of presenting; 25. Develop the training programme and 26. Logistics Part: IV- Capacity Building Programme, 27. Capacity building; 28. Organisational capacity building; 29. Capacity building in developing countries; 30. Capacity building and training development programmers and 31. Capacity building in government Part: V- Human Resource Development, 32. Human resource development; 33. Training needs assessment: An important HRD functions; 34. Role of HRD in facilitating learning in the organisations and 35. Labour management Part: VI- Human Resource Management, 36. Human resource management 37. Human resource planning; 38. Personal management; 39. Talent management; 40. Knowledge management; 41. HRM environment in India and 42. e-HRM. The text retained and described in different chapter have delivered the present need and directions of extension education going to serve the purpose of multilevel stakeholders performing their specified roles along and across the domain of agriculture, developmental studies, methodological researches, policy formulation and management applications. We hope the book will be welcome by scholars and professionals and keep generating valuable feed back in reconstructing it in due course of time.