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Dr.
M.A. KAREEM Ph.D (Agril. Extn.) |
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Present Work Working in Extension Reforms Project for Development and Operationalization of Reforms in Agricultural Extension by way of developing Strategic Research and Extension Plans (SREPs) for each district by involving all the stakeholders including farming community. Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India has taken a decision to upscale this project to 262 districts under Extension Reforms during 2005-07 and 300 districts during 2007-08, thus covering the all the development districts in the country. Worked as Field Coordinator in the Participatory Adaptive Research Project for Tribal Development. Involved in finalisation of farmer wise action plans; responsible for grounding and monitoring adaptive trials in different crops at all the three centers viz. Utnoor (Adilabad district), Bhadrachalam (Khammam district) and Rampachodavaram ( E.Godavari district). Liaison with the researchers , Commissioner of Tribal Welfare, NGOs and others. Guiding and supervising of Sectoral Officers, Adaptive Research Officers and liaison workers in the technical aspects. Conducting training programmes for the ITDA staff and others stakeholders in the project.Experience Developed the concept of distance learning for imparting skills training to the farmers in various new technologies viz. hybrid rice seed production; hybrid castor seed production; poultry; IPM and groundnut etc. The distance learning concept was tested and implemented through several NGOs.Involved in the development of the concept situation based extension for different crops or commodities. FSBE mainly focuses on the development of technical package for crops or commodities taking a microlevel agro-ecological situation and the farmer’s constraints. Based on this a strategy was developed. The FSBE was widely accepted in different states and a number of training programmes were organised to build capacity in this area. Interested in Farming System Approach .Methodology and models for different farming systems were evolved and a number of training programmes were conducted. The expertise was used in the preparation of Strategic Research and Extension Planning under National Agricultural Technology Project and Participatory Adaptive Research Project of Tribal Development. Training Attended
Total work experience of 17 years in MANAGE. Conducted training programmes for the international delegates from Sudan, Syria, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Uganda besides training agricultural field staff on FSBE and distance learning. Publications Production of Distance learning reading material on Hybrid Rice seed production. Production of Distance learning reading material on Hybrid Castor seed production. Contact Details National
Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) E-mail: makareem@manage.gov.in
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