Challenges
Agricultural extension plays a central role in creating and disseminating knowledge and enabling farmers to make decisions. it is generally done as a process and method in which agricultural practices, related information, knowledge and skills are communicated to their farmers through various channels. In order to make the extension more effective, it is necessary to give written or unwritten information to the farmers in simple language. Many new approaches have been adopted by Abhinav , ahrdo .
Abhinav has developed many extension tools and adopting various pathways to promote organic farming technology at mass level, few of them are listed below
- Abhinav Krishi Chintan (Book on Organic farming in Hindi )
- Organic vegetable production ( with Hand in Hand support in Hindi)
- Audio advisory in the Hindi/Marathi/Gujrati/Odia language (< 1 min)
- Flex posters on different components of Organic agriculture ( Hindi / Marathi )
- Biodynamic calendar ( Hindi / English )
- Month wise Crop calendar( Hindi)
- Package of practices of crops (POP) ( Hindi)
- Webinar
- What’s app messages and Movies ( Hindi)
- Movies on organic farming ( Hindi)
- Wall Paintings
- Videos (Chef on wheels, Lectures on You tube etc. )
- Face book platforms
- News papers / Magazines
- Puppet shows
- Street shows (Nukkad Natak)
- Advocacy with government
- Participation in seminars at national and International forum uploaded on face book pages, You tube etc.
- Mega workshop / Jaivik Bhoj , Bailgadi Yatra etc.
- Webinars
- Organic farming education to school and college students
Outcome
Organic farming techniques have been reached to lakhs of farmers through extension tools