3. INTRODUCTION
• Agricultural education is an important tool in ensuring increased agricultural
productivity, sustainability, environmental and ecological security, profitability, job
security and equity.
• In India, Randhawa Committee (1922) recommended the Rural Agriculture Work
Experience (RAWE) Programme for imparting quality, practical and productive
oriented education for the agriculture degree programme.
• Based on these recommendations RAWE programme was included in the curricula
of agriculture graduate degree programme at G.D. Goenka University, Gurugram.
4. OBJECTIVES
• To develop among the students an understanding of rural community life and different
situations prevailing in villages with special; reference to agriculture.
• To help students to get familiarity with the socio-economic conditions of farmers and their
problems
• To gain knowledge and experience on the operational aspects of agricultural technology
being used by the farmers;
• To develop communication skills in interns by effective use of extension methods to make
them better extension worker.
• To help the interns to understand and appreciate the agricultural problems of the village
with special reference to constraints in the application of the latest farm technology.
