Agriculture for Poverty Alleviation: The Changing Role of Agricultural Extension in Developing Nations

Abstract

Agriculture is the basis of rural economy and livelihood of developing nations. In developing nations, most of the farmers are small and marginal categories/smallholder category. As per the World Bank report smallholder farmers are the future of world agriculture and they are shouldering and would continue to feed world population. Developing nations‟ agriculture had three contrasting divergence viz. Irrigated agriculture, Rainfed agriculture and Dryland agriculture, however, agriculture is considered as the best mean to reduce the rural poverty.