Education Technology Adoption and Agricultural Productivity

The recent strategy of agricultural development in India has focused mainly on the transfer of new knowledge of science and technology to the farmers for raising farm productivity. In other words technological innovations involving intensive rather than extensive use of land are assumed to play a vital role in accelerating the rate of agriculture growth. In the process of such change supporting services like agricultural research and extension credit marketing input supply etc. are very important. The role of agricultural extension services and extension education is to carry the knowledge of science and technology from research laboratories and experimental station to farmers. (Haque and Sirohi 1986).