individual contact method in extension education

INDIVIDUAL CONTACT METHOD

Submitted to,Dr. Rupasi TiwariSr, Scientist

Submitted by,Balaraj BLM.V.Sc 5076

DIVISION OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

ASSIGNMENT ON

INDIVIDUAL CONTACT METHOD:- Direct contact of the extension worker with an individual person or farmer or farm women or youth for specific purpose.

Extension worker maintains regular contact with individual farmers. Practically, this method poses a challenge to extension workers in terms of the number of individual farmers to be covered.

Farm and home visit Office call Telephone calls Personal letters Result demonstration Email Video calling Counseling Correspondence course ()

Types in individual contact method:-

Face to face individual contact by the extension worker with the farmer.

Objectives of this method:-Good relation and confidence.Firsthand information.Discuss individual problem.Identify local leader and demonstrator.Not reachable farmers can be met .

FARM & HOME VISIT:-

Visit should have the definite purpose.

Punctual.

Allow the farmer to talk more.

Use simple language with famer.

Avoid argument with the farmer.

Record the visit, it will help for the follow up.

IMP POINTS TO BE REMEMBERED

Costly and time consuming

Only limited number of farmer were contacted.

Extension worker may do favoritism & other will blame for it.

tendency to visit same farm or home again and again.

LIMITATIONS:-

It is a call made by a farmer or a group on the extension worker at his office for obtaining information or other farm-helps needed.

The number of office calls is related to the degree of public interest in the programme of extension service.

Relationship depends on the accessibility of office to rural area.

OFFICE CALLS:-KVK

ATIC

ADVANTAGES:- Economic use of extension workers time and energy. Farmers in the reception stage of mind ready to follow

new practice. It reinforce other method. Proper recording helps in follow up activity and one of

the measure for public participation.

LIMITATION:- Not able to get detailed first hand knowledge of farmers

problem. Limited contact with the farmer.

It is a personal or individual letter written by extension worker to a farmer in connection with extension work. In practice personal letters are used to answer enquired from farmer regarding specific farm problems, supplies and services.

Personal letter:-

points to be considered while using personal letter method:-

1. Extension worker should give reply to queries as early as

possible. “information delayed is information denied”

2. Writing should be complete, concise, clear, correct with courtesy nature.

3. The writing should be neat, free from over writing, striking, spelling mistake and grammatical mistakes.

4. There should be easy readability.

ADVANTAGES:-

Individual problem can be easily solved. Economical method. Useful to educate farmers. Percentage of adaption is very high. Best method to reach the farmers who could not

reached by farm & home visit and office call. Extension worker will get first hand information

about rural problem.

Time consuming method.

Majority of the farmers are illiterate this method has limited usage.

It is very difficult for the extension worker to answer each and every individual problem.

Only few persons can be contacted.

LIMITATIONS:-

It is the contact between Extension worker and farmer over the telephone for one or more specific purpose connected with extension.ADVANTAGE:-For fast dissemination of the information like First aid treatment during emergencies.LIMITATIONS:-We cannot see the farmer and his farm directly.

PHONE CALL:-

Kisan Call Center # 1800 180 1551

PHONE CALL:-

Helpline Phone # 0581-2311111)

It is demonstration conducted by a farmer under direct supervision of an extension worker to provide the worthiness of a recommended practice or combination of practices, in this the new practice is compared with old one of the farmer. Farmer learn by seeing and doing.

Types of result demonstration:-1. Short duration:- deworming2. Long duration:- cross breeding3. Single practice:- debeaking

Result demonstration:-

it gives extra assurance farmer. It will increase the confidence level in both. More number of the people understand easily. Useful for introducing new technologies in field. Contribute to discover the local leaders.

LIMITATIONS:- costly and time consuming. Difficult to find good demonstrator. Unfavorable weather may destroy the value.

ADVANTAGES OF RD:-

Electronic mail, commonly known as email, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the Internet or other computer networks.An email message consists of three components, the message envelope, the message header, and the message body.

Email:-

A visual communication between two people it is also called as Video-telephony comprises the technologies for the reception and transmission of audio-video signals by users at different locations, for communication between people.

Skype popularized video calling, which enables any two individuals in the world who have access to computer, internet and web camera .

Video calling

Is an interactive learning process between counselor and client, in which counselor approaches in a holistic way, to solve social, cultural, economic and emotional issues.

Counseling involves talking with a person in a way that helps that person solve a problem or helps to create conditions that will cause the person to understand and/or improve his behavior, character, values or life circumstances.

COUNSELING:-

Distance education. It has been described as "a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance.

Correspondence course:-

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