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VIGYAN ASHRAM (Indian Institute of Education)
•Volunteer organization working with motto of “ Education through Development
& Development Through Education”.
Focused area :
• Educational Philosophy based“ Learning While Doing” methodology
•Development of appropriate technologies and dissemination to rural community
Technology
Education
Rural
Development
Through
Education
Rural
Development
Enterprise
Development
Technology innovations
Project
Project Title
Training rural youth (farming) in Research
Techniques to prove use of appropriate farming
technologies.
Objective :
 To train rural youth from community in research
methodologies.
 To use scientific knowledge and research techniques
for improving agricultural productivity.
 Use of new ICT tools & social media to make a simple
system of record keeping.
• Thousand of
technologies
available to
improve package
of practice.
• Government /
NonGovernment/
Privet institute
available for
providing training
• Even small
technology
intervention can
help to improve
productivity
MISSING LINKS IN ADOPTIONS
ROLE OF APPROPIATE TECHNOLOGIES
PRESENT SCENARIO
• Source of livelihood
with 70 %
• 17 % Contribution in
GDP
• Average land holding
> 2 He
• Less productivity
due to traditional
(non-scientific)
agricultural
practices.
• Neo-literate farming
community .
• Farmers are not
involved in
development and
dissemination of
technologies.
• Not able to judge
benefits of
technology
adoption.
• Don’t know
research
methodology &
imp of data
recoding
• Don’t have hand
holding support
Project need & Scope
• Small technology intervention can make big difference.
• Thousand of technologies available
• Technology adoption needs scientific approach and
adoptive changes.
• Proper record keeping & hand holding support for
action research can change scenario!
Research Methodology
Selecting
appropriate
technologies
Selecting
young
farmers
Training
farmers in
scientific
adoption and
record keeping
methodologies
Using mobile
based social
media tools to
for continuous
feedback and
hand holding
support during
adoption
Prove role of
appropriate
technologies
in improving
agricultural
productivity.
Desire outcomes
• Developing ‘Action Research’ methodology for
marginal income farmers.
• Testing efficiency of selected technologies
directly on farmers field.
• Involving farmers in development , modification,
adoption of useful technologies.
• Developing simple yet effective on-filed data
recoding system by using mobile based
applications/tools.
• Developing farming researchers community
capable of finding solutions to their needs!
Expectation from workshop
To explore
applications of
‘Learning through
Research’
methodology for
rural Indian
community
To learn skills of
conducting action
research and
experimental
design.
To explore use of
new tools like
mobile apps, social
media platform in
action research
To network with
leaders &
professionals of this
field