Strategic Research and Extension Plan of Vaishali District
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STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND EXTENSION PLAN OF VAISHALI DISTRICT Under the Guidance of BIHAR AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT EXTENSION TRAINING INSTITUTE (BAMETI) Rajendra Agriculture University, Bihar, Pusa, Samastipur & MANAGE, Hyderabad 2006-07 FOREWORD A new Centrally Sponsored Scheme “Support to State Extension Programme for Extension Reforms is being implemented through Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) in 11 districts of Bihar in addition to 4 earlier Project Districts under NATP to revitalize the extension services in the State. ATMA has been created in each of the districts to implement the new scheme. The institution of ATMA has facilitated bringing together researchers, extension workers, other stakeholders and farmer who are the principal stakeholder to carry out joint diagnostic action and prepare and carry out plan in terms of whether it is extension or the demonstration or trials for the research purposes. The preparation of District action plan in tune with local needs and situations. To perform this responsibility, ATMA has developed a demand driven, situation specific multi agency oriented Strategic Research & Extension Plan (SREP). This is the basic document that spells out the goals to be pursued, programme service to be accomplished, mode of implementation and effective utilization of all available resources. The SREP has been prepared in consultation with the farmers taking into consideration, their needs and aspirations through Participatory Rural Appraisal methodology (PRA). The programme proposed to be undertaken in the SREP is demand driven, agro-eco situation specific and multi disciplinary in nature. I extend my sincere thanks to the Project Director, ATMA and district heads of all departments in coordinating their efforts in bringing out this valuable document. I appreciate the technical feedback and guidance provided by the Scientists of Rajendra Agriculture University and the Facilitators of MANAGE, Hyderabad in the preparation of this document. I hope this document would go a long way in developing a cost effective and sustainable farming system and shall facilitate the farming community in achieving increased prosperity. N.S. Madhavan Agriculture Production Commissioner Govt. of Bihar Acknowledgement The SREP published by BAMETI, Patna is compilation of facts and realistic assessment of the agricultural scenario and identifies developmental gaps so that it could be used as basis for technical planning of agricultural development programs. I am thankful to the Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperation, Govt. of India and Department of Agriculture, Vaishali for his guidance and explicit support in establishing and Operationalization of ATMA in the district. It will be little to say thanks to the gigantic effort of Director, BAMETI, Dr. K.M. Singh in getting to the conclusion of SREP Preparation of the district. His continuous encouragement and technical advice on complex problems during SREP preparation has helped us to come out with this document. He always shared his experience which helped us in prioritizing the issues in this document. I consider it my privilege to thank Dr. O.P. Agnihotri, Failitator, MANAGE, Hyderabad for his kind encouragement and support in the preparation of the SREP. The training imparted to the AES Team by Dr. O.P. Agnihotri and Sri Anil Jha has helped in collection of data from the Representative Villages by the members of the team. I thank them for the pains he took in conveying the requirements of this process. I am thankful to the National Facilitators of MANAGE Mr. Somesh Kumar for seeing through the SREP and checking the data as collected after PRA exercise. The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sabour has been a great support for identifying research priorities and preparation of research strategies of ATMA programmes in the district. I sincerely thank and acknowledge the immense help extended by Dr. P.K. Singh, Programme Coordinator, Mr. Anil Kumar, Kumari Anupma, Research Associate, KVK, Hariharpur, Vaishali in preparation of the SREP. The help rendered by Mr. Nageshwar Thakur, District Horticulture Officer, Vaishali, Mr. Shiv Shankar Arya, General Manager, DIC, Vaishali , Mr. J.P. Singh, District Fisheries Officer, Mr. Viveka Gayasen, DDM, NABARD, Vaishali, Dr. P.K. Singh, District Animal Husbandry Officer, Vaishali is humbly acknowledged. The unfailing support rendered by the Deputy Project Director, Mr. Girendra Mohan Kumar, Sri Binodh Kumar Assistant Agriculture Officer ( Botany) DAO Office, Vaishali, Sri Shyam Kishor Thakur , Alawalpur, Bhagwanpur , Sri Awadesh singh, Ghoshwar, hajipur Sri Dwarik Sahani, pahitiya, hajipur Sri Abhay nath singh Sectary Jagriti Kala Kendra pachdamiya, lalganj has been a source of great help. For this, I whole heartedly thank him for assisting me in preparation and processing of data and identifying key research and extension activity for the district. Ganesh Ram DAO-cum-Project Director ATMA, Vaishali INDEX CHAPTER CONTENTS Pg. No. I Introduction II Methodology III Background Information of the District IV Description of Ongoing Extension & Development Schemes of the District V Identification, Description & Analysis of Existing Farming System in each AES VI Proposed Extension Strategies VII Proposed Research Strategies VIII Activity Schedule of Extension Strategies IX Activity Schedule of Research Strategy X Baseline Data & Vision Chapter 1 Introduction Agricultural extension has a crucial role to play in the context of growing demands of agricultural production in a sustainable manner. Reforms in the system envisage an extension service more broad- based and holistic in content and scope, thus beyond agricultural technology transfer. Its normal task of transferring and disseminating appropriate technologies and agronomic practices would not be sufficient. Extension agencies, services and functionaries will need to exercise a more proactive and participatory role, serve as knowledge information agents, initiating and facilitating mutually meaningful and equitable knowledge based transactions among primary producers, agricultural researchers and trainers. All this needs to be done in an effective and cost efficient manner. ATMA is mandated to develop a demand driven, situation specific, multi-actor oriented Strategic Research and Extension Plan (SREP) to accelerate agricultural development in the project district. The SREP is the basic document, which not only guides the development activities that are needed to be carried out, but also the manner in which and by whom it has to be done. The need for reforms in Agricultural Extension has been explicitly raised in the National Agriculture Policy; the report of Expenditure Reforms Commission as well as the Tenth Plan Approach paper. Keeping the recommendations of these policy initiatives in view, and to provide policy directives for extension reforms, a broad Policy Framework for Agricultural Extension (PFAE) has been developed by the Ministry of Agriculture. The five Major Guiding Elements of the Policy Framework are as follows: 1. Reforming Public Sector Extension. 2. Promoting private sector to effectively complement, supplement and wherever possible to substitute public extension. 3. Augmenting Media and Information Technology Support for Extension. 4. Mainstreaming Gender Concerns in Extension. 5. Capacity Building/ Skill up-gradation of farmers and extension functionaries. “Support to State Extension Programmes for Extension Reforms” is the main scheme to operationalised agricultural extension reforms across the county. Under the scheme, funding support shall be provided to the States/ UTs for undertaking extension reforms within the broad purview of the PFAE, complying with its key areas/ norms, and shall be operated based on Extension Work Plans prepared by them. Strategic Research and Extension Plan (SREP): During the last decade a number of management tools have been developed which are helpful in facilitating farmer involvement in an effective manner. Based upon these tools a participatory methodology has been worked out for preparing SREP at the district level. The ultimate objective of both research and extension system is to increase agricultural production. Formulating extension and research agenda based on producers’ requirement results in technology that will be more acceptable to users. This also helps in allocation of resources to both extension and research activities to be taken up in the district. Therefore, the Strategic Research and Extension Plan (SREP) for each district is the need of the hour to address specific problems of the farming community, especially resource poor and other disadvantaged groups. What is strategic planning? Strategy is defined as a pattern of purposes, policies, programs, action, decisions or resource allocations that define what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. Strategies can vary by level and by time frame. Strategic planning is a management task concerned with the growth and future of an organization. Its job is to ensure that the organization keeps moving in the right direction. The following are some of the characteristics of strategic planning: A process in which the stakeholders of an organization (and others they invite to be associated to) join in strategic thinking and acting to create the best fit between the organization and its environment It is planning from outside in and from inside out. It gives detailed attention to strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in terms of the organization,