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ABOUT THE BOOK

Present manuscripts is an effort made in the direction of compiling most valuable information from numerous books and journals related with the text and chaptering classified information in the form of a book. The subject matter has been presented with illustrations at every juncture, which could be appreciated by the readers.

This book incorporates information on Extension Education, Agricultural Extension, Sociology and Rural Sociology, Indian Rural Society, Social Groups, Social Stratification, cultural Concepts, Social Values and Attitudes, Social Institutes, Social Organizations, Social Control, Social Change, Leader and Leadership Psychology.

The material presented in this book will be highly useful to the students, research scholars, teachers, planners, administrators, extension workers and all those who are engaged in teaching rural development and doing research on Rural Sociology and Educational Psychology.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Hemlata Saini did her graduation and post graduation in Agricultural Extension from RAU, Bikaner with gold medal. She also secured a gold medal in Ph.D (Agricultural Extension Education) from MPUAT, Udaipur.  Presently, she is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, BACA under Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat. She earned three awards in teaching. She has published two books and four manuals. She has guided three students besides publishing about ten scientific research papers in national and international journals of repute.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Sharma did his B.Sc. (Ag.) from SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner, Jaipur and M. Sc. (Extension Education) and Ph.D (Extension Education) from Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur (Rajasthan). Presently, he is working as Pr. Scientist (Extension Education) at ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research, Bharatpur, Rajasthan. His research and extension specialization includes adoption diffusion process, agriculture communication, Training process, extension management, development of extension tools for study of behavioural aspects of farmers and extension personnel. He organized more than 100 training programmes for farmers and extension personnel of the country. He identified yield gap and constraints in adoption of scientific technology of rapeseed-mustard in different states.  He is working for popularization of scientific production and protection technology among the farmers of rapeseed-mustard growing states. He has developed “School on AIR programme”, Voice based E-learning programme, Training modules for different stakeholders and other extension tools. He is National Coordinator of FLDs on Rapeseed-Mustard.  Published more than 30 research papers in national and international journals. He has presented 25 papers in National and International conferences.  He has been editor of NAAS rated journals, Indian Journal of Extension Education, Rajasthan Journal of Extension Education, Indian Research Journal of Extension Education and Journal of Oilseed Brassica. Several Government organizations / Societies / NGOs/etc have honoured him.

Dr. Narpat Singh was born in the year of 1978 at Bagar District in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. He did B.Sc Ag. (Hons.) & M.Sc Ag. Extension Education from S.K.N. Agriculture College Jobner, Jaipur, Rajasthan. He obtained Ph.D in Extension Education from MPUAT, Udaipur for which he was awarded UGC’s prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship, Young Scientist award and excellence in teaching. He has published five scholarly books in addition to 20-research paper in journals of national and international repute. At Present Dr. Singh is serving as Research Associate at ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research, Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

L.L. Somani is Retired Director Resident instructions, MPUAT, Udaipur. He went To Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia for undertaking Post-doctoral work (1975-77). He has over 400 research and technical articles to his credit. He has authored/edited over 15 dozen of books in various field of agriculture