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Approaches in Transfer of Technology for Agricultural Development

Volume : 68
Issue: Nov-nov
Pages: 1 - 4
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Adoption of technologies by large number of farmers pave way for agricul-tural development of an area. Various approaches are followed by extension agencies for transmitting new ideas and motivating farmers to adopt them. In the District of Thanjavur, a predomi nantly rice growing area, the production of rice was stepped up from 0.92 million tonnes to 10.6 million tonncs between 1968 and 1971. Three major approa-ches used by the extension agency of the department of agriculture which, among other things, enabled substantial gains in agricultural production in a short time are explained briefly in this article

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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