What are the need for agriculture extension
1. Increase agricultural productivity: Extension services provide farmers with the knowledge and skills needed to adopt improved agricultural practices, technologies, and techniques that can increase productivity and maximize yields.
2. Enhance food security: By improving agricultural practices and increasing productivity, extension services help farmers ensure a stable and abundant food supply for their communities and the wider population.
3. Promote sustainable agricultural practices: Extension services can educate farmers on sustainable agricultural practices that conserve natural resources, protect the environment, and promote long-term food security.
4. Improve farmers’ income and livelihoods: By increasing productivity and helping farmers adopt more efficient practices, extension services can help farmers improve their income and livelihoods, reducing poverty and improving quality of life.
5. Support rural development: Extension services play a key role in promoting rural development by empowering farmers with the knowledge and skills needed to improve their agricultural practices, increase productivity, and access markets.
6. Bridge the gap between research and practice: Extension services help disseminate the latest agricultural research findings and technologies to farmers, helping them to adopt new practices and technologies that can improve their productivity and profitability.
7. Provide training and capacity-building: Extension services provide training and capacity-building opportunities for farmers, enabling them to acquire new skills, knowledge, and technologies that can improve their agricultural practices.
8. Promote innovation and entrepreneurship: Extension services can help farmers explore new opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, such as value-added processing, agri-tourism, and organic farming.
9. Improve access to information and resources: Extension services can help farmers access information, inputs, markets, financial services, and other resources necessary for successful agricultural production and marketing.
10. Strengthen community resilience: By working closely with farmers and communities, extension services can help build resilience to environmental, economic, and social challenges, ensuring that farmers are better able to cope with and adapt to changing conditions.