Extension Education Topics
Individual topics from the Agricultural Extension syllabus, each written to the depth the ASRB paper asks for and linked to the unit it belongs to.
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What is Extension Education?
Where the word came from, the definitions the examiner wants attached to the right name, and how the subject differs from classroom education.
Diffusion of Innovations: Rogers' Theory
The single most examined topic in the Extension paper. The four elements, the five attributes, the decision process and the curve.
Extension Teaching Methods
How the message is actually delivered, how the methods are classified, and how to choose between them.
ATMA: the Agricultural Technology Management Agency
India's district-level extension reform: what it is, how it is put together, and the criticisms the examiner expects you to know.
Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)
The farm science centre: origin, mandate, the four mandated activities, and how one is staffed and run.
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
The methods that hand the pen to the villager, the principles behind them, and how PRA differs from RRA.
ICT in Agricultural Extension
What the technology actually does for advisory work, which Indian initiatives you are expected to name, and where it stops working.
Extension Programme Planning
Building a programme from situation analysis to evaluation, and the vocabulary the examiner expects you to use precisely.