Strategies to overcome the challenges in dairy extension

Abstract

Dairy extension ensures steady flow of information and technology to the client system. Its role in future food, nutrition, livelihood and environmental security becomes indispensable in lieu of daunting challenges especially demand for skilled manpower, resource priorities and quality final products. Research, teaching and extension reforms warrant recalibrated strategies in order to realise sustainable and profitable dairying in the years to come. Extension should play crucial role in bringing informal stakeholders who are still outside the purview of development process and suggest integrated sustainable rural approach. Further, its contribution in popularizing the commercialized dairy innovations and their impact analysis would augment the dairy productivity and vibrancy of dairy sector. This paper discusses improvements in pedagogical approaches, demand driven field extension methodologies and data analytics which would yield greater dividends for future dairy stakeholders.