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The document discusses the purpose and significance of livestock extension education, emphasizing its role in providing knowledge and skills to livestock owners for better production and problem-solving. It highlights the need for organized communication and leadership development among livestock owners, as well as the importance of supportive infrastructure and policies. The objectives of extension education focus on problem analysis, leadership development, technology adoption, and communication between researchers and the community.

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The document discusses the purpose and significance of livestock extension education, emphasizing its role in providing knowledge and skills to livestock owners for better production and problem-solving. It highlights the need for organized communication and leadership development among livestock owners, as well as the importance of supportive infrastructure and policies. The objectives of extension education focus on problem analysis, leadership development, technology adoption, and communication between researchers and the community.

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LECTURE-1

Purpose and Significance of Livestock Extension Education

The term extension was first used in the United States of America to connote the extension of
knowledge from the Land Grant Colleges to the farmers through the process of informal
education. The term 'Extension' is derived from the Latin roots, 'tensio' means 'stretching' and 'ex'
means 'out', thus the term 'extension education' means that type of education which is stretched
out into the villages and fields beyond the limits of the schools and colleges.
Livestock extension involves systematic and organized communication with livestock owners
with a view to helping them in such a way that the livestock owners

 obtain a better insight into their present and future position as livestock owners;
 acquire sufficient knowledge and skills necessary to increase production or reduce cost of
production;
 develop positive attitudes of livestock development
 able to choose feasible and optimum objectives;
 able to identify problems, look for solutions, solve the problems identified;

The subject matter delivered should be directly applicable to the livestock owners, which is
necessary for livestock development. This could be accomplished by designing the training
programme based on needs of the livestock owners. It is also equally important for the extension
agencies to help the development of leadership among the livestock owners. Development of
appropriate local leaders helps the extension agencies in several ways.

There are no means by which a large number of livestock owners spread throughout the length
and breadth of the country can be forced to practices animal husbandry in a specific way. Such
attempts usually meet with passive and even at times active form of resistance. The better option
could be is to influence their decision making through livestock extension so that their decisions
will be to their own and to their society’s advantage. Livestock extension alone is seldom
sufficient to increase animal production. Livestock extension cannot operate in stand-alone
situation as it needs the support of various institutions and several groups of people. In addition
to livestock extension, the other elements required for increasing animal production are;

1. remunerative market
2. assured water and electricity supply
3. local availability and accessibility of inputs such as feeds, medicines, vaccines, technical
services and equipments
4. roads, transportation and storage facilities
5. credit supply
6. appropriate policy on animal
The domain of knowledge covered by Livestock Extension are;

Technical problems such as selection of livestock, improved breeding, better feeding, housing
and management

1. farm economics and organizational problems which include importance of culling of


animals, labour management, labour saving equipments (milking machines, meat
processing equipments) acquisition of credit and its repayment, farm plans How to reduce
cost of production of milk, meat or eggs etc. is forms an important aspect for the
livestock owners. ?
2. issues pertaining to globalization and WTO regulations

The change must be

1. felt by the livestock owners as important


2. significant economically and socially to a relatively large number of people
3. related to the primary needs of the people

People must undergo change because

1. it is the people who must make changes in farming, home-making, health, community
that contribute to development
2. change in people, educationally, is a pre-requisite to the attainment of other changes in a
free society
3. Changes in the mind (Head) and heart of people precede changes in actions (Hands).

Objectives of Extension Education


The objectives of extension education are the expressions of the ends towards which our efforts
are directed. In other words, an objective means a direction of movement. Before starting any
programme, its objectives must be clearly stated, so that one knows where to go and what is to be
achieved. The fundamental objective of extension education is the development of the people.
The Extension in our country is primarily concerned with the following objectives:
1) To assist the people to discover and analyze their problems, felt and unfelt needs.
2) To develop leadership among people and help them to organize groups to solve their
problems.
3) To motivate the people to accept the technology and put it into practice.
4) To keep the researchers informed about the people's problems and to ensure solutions.

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