RAWE Internship 2019-20

RURAL AGRICULTURAL WORK EXPERIENCE

In India, Randhawa Committee (1992) recommended the RAWE Programme for

imparting quality, practical and productive oriented education for the agriculture degree

programme. In fact experiential learning is exactly what the name implies learning from

work experience. Effective work experience training strategies incorporating rural

agricultural experiential learning approaches provide opportunities for a student of the

last year to engage in field work activity, to review and analyze critically this work

experience activity and to draw some useful conclusions, decisions, from this analysis

and apply the result in actual practical life and field situation.

It (Rural Agricultural Work Experience) is a programme for impairing quality,

production and practical oriented education for agriculture degree. 

Allotted village- Hatyadeli,  District- Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh

It helped us to know the real issue of farmer and small trials of suggestion to

them which only we heard about.

 The query and feedbacks of farmers were interesting .Most of the section of

the questionnaire section helped us a lot because of the expertise of farmers.

 This village attachment programme to the Hatyadeli village provides a

practical oriented opportunity and hands on experience in acquiring knowledge

and skill. The real socio-economic situation of village and problems at field level

is known to us.

 The farmers of villages are well known to the various ITKs , new technologies

and some are developed as they are very much eager to know about the latest

techniques and come in contact with government officials frequently and their

production particularly vegetables is more due to more knowledge and

availability of irrigation water.

ACTIVITIES LISTED BELOW:

VILLAGE ACTIVITIES

 Survey of village

 Agronomical Interventions- Study of Farmer’s practices

 Fruit and vegetable production interventions- Study of status of

Horticulture in Hatyadeli and Cultivation of horticultural crops by

Balaram Patidar

 Soil improvement- Study of soil status of Hatyadeli and learn about soil

testing and soil health card, water conservation demonstration.

 Animal production interventions- study of status of livestock of

hatyadeli village

 Plant protection interventions- study of disease and insect pest

incidence in kharif season in Hatyadeli and farmer’s practices to control

damage.

 Extension and transfer of Technology- Suggesting and making farmers

aware about improved package of practices, making of soy milk, social

awareness activities( SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN at schools and

homes, ECO FRIENDLY GANESHA IDOL MAKING, AWARENESS AGAINST

MALARIA DISEASE) plantation etc.

Agriculture Science Centre (KVK) JHABUA ACTIVITIES:-

 Field visits: study of different crops ( soybean, maize, urd bean,

pigeonpea, tuar)

 Experience of Sowing, weeding and thinning

 Learned about different units present:

- Azolla unit,

- Dairy Unit,

- Orchard,

- Polyhouse,

- Storage house,

- Goatery of Barberi breed,

- Kadaknath Poultry,

- Soil testing laboratory

 Attended various Guest lectures and conference meetings with farmers

organized by KVK.

EDUCATIONAL VISITS:-

1. Anganwadi training centre

2. DMO (District Marketing Office)

3. Warehouse

4. MP agro

5. State Horticulture Department

6. Cooperative Bank

7. Sanchi Milk Processing Plant

8. Sarangi- Balaram Patidar’s Farm

9. Alirajpur- KVK and Bhagat ji’s Farm

Thus, RAWE helped us through its learner-centered approach of exposing undergraduate students of

Agriculture college by using principles of “learning by doing” and “seeing is

believing” to provide direction to think and act on our own.