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.
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