Training farmers for farm mechanization : need for institutional collaboration
Abstract
Effective utilization of farm machinery
requires more than transfer of information.
New skills have to be built among farmers,
especially those introducing machinery for
the first time.
Building such skills requires
infrastructure, trained personnel and time.
The total capacity to train of the Farm
Machinery Training and Testing Institutes
of the Government of India at Budni,
Hissar and Garladinne as well as the 20
agricultural universities in the country
amounts to only about 7,000 a year
compared to a need of about 25,000.
Girja Sharan discusses how interinstitutional
collaboration can help bridge
the gap to enable farmers to realize the full
benefits of mechanization
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