Agricultural Higher Education, Research and Extension in India
Contents: 1. History of Indian Agriculture/Debabrata Dasgupta. 2. History and Growth of Agricultural Higher Education in India/Prabuddha Ray and Debabrata Dasgupta. 3. Higher Education in Agriculture at the Cross-Roads/Debabrata Dasgupta. 4. Horticulture Education, Research and Extension: An Indian Prospective/Shankar B. Dandin and Ashok S Alur. 5. Historical Growth and Future Perspectives of Fishery Education and Extension in India/B. K. Das, D. K. Meena, A. K. Sahoo, H. S. Swain and A. Sinha. 6. Agricultural Higher Education, Research and Extension in India – Fisheries/S. Ayyappan and K.M. Shankar. 7. Indian Sericulture: Current Status and Future Needs/Shankar B Dandin and Vijaya Kumari N. 8. Historical Trends of Horticultural Research in India: Achievements and Future Research Thrust/Sisir Mitra. 9. Journey of Agricultural Extension: Institutional Innovations and Reforms/A. K. Singh and R. Roy Burman. 10. Post-Harvest of Agriculture Produce/P. G. Adsule and Sujata Tetali. 11. Present Status of Post-Harvest Technologies and its Future Perspective in India/Pitam Chandra. 12. Nutrient Management Options for Combating Nutrient Mining in Soil-Crop System/Saroj Kumar Sanyal and Indranil Das. 13. Cultivation of Science with Agro-Biotechnology as Frontier Science in Particular: Ethics as the Missing Link/Debabrata Dasgupta.
Indian agriculture, albeit its status as the largest enterprise, has remained as an unorganized sector. Agricultural Situation in India has moved from an era of chronic shortage in food during the 1960s to a level of food-sufficiency, buffer stock and even exports of food from 1990s. To ascertain topmost priority to farm front, a high degree of emphasis was accorded towards developing national capacity wherein along with infrastructure, a far greater role of (i) agricultural higher education, (ii) research in agriculture, and (iii) agricultural extension has been continuously realized and emphasized. Besides, all-pervasive globalization forced us to a paradigm shift to the improvement of efficiency from enhancing production. In this backdrop, 13 chapters have been placed sequentially. The entire Volume thus provides insight into separate but interrelated aspects on “AGRICULTURAL HIGHER EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND EXTENSION IN INDIA”. It is assumed to be an authoritative outcome of much needed for recent time. Each aspect has been discussed with meticulous details and much precision.
