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A National Virtual Academy for Indian Agriculture: To promote MOOCs for Agriculture Professionals

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/8704/
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Title A National Virtual Academy for Indian Agriculture: To
promote MOOCs for Agriculture Professionals
 
Creator Dileepkumar, G
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description In 1960s, the early establishment of Agricultural Universities in India, on the pattern similar to that of the Land Grant colleges of the United States, contributed a lot in boosting the agricultural growth in the country and brought the integration of education, research and extension. The model has shown a direction in reorganizing and strengthening the agricultural education system in India and also helped in bringing diverse subjects in the course curriculum integrating provision of hands-on practical exposure to the student. The role of Indian Agricultural Universities has been significant in increasing food grain production from 51 million tons in 1950 to about 257.13 million tons (MT) in 2013-14. However, in the recent years these agricultural universities are failing to attract good number of students’ in comparison to other subjects.
 
Date 2015-02
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8704/1/A%20National%20Virtual%20Academy%20for%20Indian%20Agriculture.pdf
Dileepkumar, G (2015) A National Virtual Academy for Indian Agriculture: To promote MOOCs for Agriculture Professionals. In: 12th Agricultural Science Congress, 2015, 3-6th February, 2015, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India.