IMPACT OF TANUVAS FRONTLINE EXTENSION SYSTEM IN TAMIL NADU
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2022
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In India, livestock sector is one of the important livelihood options for the rural section. Livestock extension along with other services has been playing a crucial role in sustaining livestock associated livelihood. Now, the extension services become more of pluralistic in nature and it is in paradigm change based on the context of farming, content and methods of delivering information. In the backdrop of above and importance of livestock based livelihood necessitates understanding of TANUVAS frontline extension system.
Ex-post facto research design was adopted for this study. A sample of 138 beneficiaries and 138 non-beneficiaries of TANUVAS extension centres in Tamil Nadu and 23 TANUVAS extension centres were selected for studying the impact of extension system.
All the extension centres of TANUVAS had its own building except Melmaruvathur but cent per cent of the centres had vechicle facility. While 95.65% of the extension centres are functioning with basic permanent infrastructure facilities. Among the existing teaching staff members of the centres during the survey period, 41.66% were specialized in production followed by health (29.16%), extension (20.83%) and basic science (8.34%) subjects.
On an average, TANUVAS frontline extension system delivered services to 139310 farmers in a year. Out of this, 66.70% were contacted through individual contact methods and 33.30% were contacted through group methods. More than half (55.65%) of the individual contact method was delivered through office calls followed by telephone calls (35.14%), farm visits (7.72%) and e-mail (1.49%). In addition to this 808 paid farm visits were conducted per annum with an average of 35 farm visits per centre in a year.