*International Agribusiness Management Institute
**Indian Institute of Forest Management
Online published on 6 December, 2013.
The presented review paper discusses the role of extension services and trend of extension development in India, along with the advances in agriculture. This would also cover the trend of agriculture growth and several extension development programmes undertaken before and after independence. Role of extension has to be understood even more than simply transfer of technology. This would also help us to know the information that are needed by the farmer as well as sources of those information that would help in spread of new extension information ultimately leading to agriculturally prosperous nation.
Extension, Agriculture development, transfers of technology, extension development programmes
