Participatory Knowledge Sharing among Agricultural Extension Professional on Organic Farming Practices

The present study evaluates the participatory training programmes conducted on organic farming methods for the agricultural extension professional of Medak district, Telangana. The extension workers cutting across 46 mandals of the district covering State Agricultural Department and voluntary organisations working at the grassroot level were purposively sampled and the knowledge levels were studied before and after these participatory trainings by a structured questionnaire. Based on the findings, the middle aged extension professional i.e age group of 31–45 yrwere mostly playing a key role in disseminating the agricultural information at the grassroot level of the district and still there is a need of frequent up gradation of their knowledge. This study had shown that extension professionals with hierarchically superior designation found to be dealing extension matters in a better way and were promoting extension methods better, than any other professional.