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Main Function

Agriculture Extension Services Sindh has responsibility to advise / educate growers / farmers in modern crop production practices and technologies, so as to increase over all farm production and improves yield per unit area. To achieve the goal, the Agriculture Extension Worker are performing their duties to disseminate the timely seasonal information amongst the growers for cultural practices; proper seed requirement, timely sowing, balanced and efficient use of fertilizer, efficient/judicious use of irrigation water, pesticide use, effective crop management, harvesting, threshing and storage / marketing etc.
   
To disseminate the information concerning to growing, management and marketing of crops through personal, group contact and various means of mass media.
To educate and train farmers in modern techniques of sowing, irrigation, fertilizer application, insect pest disease & weed control, and harvesting & threshing of crops.
To serve as resource base for agricultural knowledge and provide information to growers on issues like insect pest out break, environmental changes etc etc.
To introduce new crop and crop varieties and farm machinery & tools among growers as and when developed / recommended by Agriculture Research and Agriculture Engineering Wings.
To introduce the use of fertilizer, pesticide and weedicide to increase the yield per hectare.
To coordinate with input supplying organization for their timely availability.
To prevent adulteration of pesticides and fertilizers.
To implement area and production targets and collect agricultural statistics for sowing position in the province.
To implement the Cotton control Act.
To supervise Agricultural Marketing Organization in implementation of Agriculture Produce Market Act.
To co-ordinate with the Federal Agencies.
   
Activities
New technologies, compost mannuring, EM technology, integrated pest management, laser leveling, cultivation on ridges, bed and furrows etc. are being disseminated among farmers.
Use of zinc and boron in cotton and zinc in rice has been popularized.
Technology of optimum use of water in cotton was popularized in cotton areas.
In view of water shortage, replacement of rice by cotton was introduced in district Larkana, Shikarpur, Jacobabad & Kashmore.
Coordinated with private seed companies to ensure availability of certified seed.
Pest scouting program launched in cotton and rice growing districts.
Integrated Plant Nutrient & Soil Management technology is being disseminated in the area of Water Boards under World Bank Assisted Project Sindh On Farm Water Management Project.
To minimize the use of pesticides; with the collaboration of PARC, an IPM programme has been launched in cotton, mango, vegetables and rice crops.

Agriculture Extension Through Mass Media
T.V. Programmes
TV spots telecast on KTN, Sindh TV, PTV National on watercourses, cotton, rice and laser leveler subjects.
Special TV Scrolls about agricultural messages hare being telecast on Sindh TV.
Telecast messages through KTN and Sindh TV on various topics. i.e. clean cotton, sprinkler irrigation, wheat crop.
Daily Radio Programs from Radio Pakistan, Hyd. & Khairpur Stations are being broadcast.
Live Radio programmes once in a week on four Radio Stations.
Newspapers Advertisement was published in various newspapers particularly in Sindhi newspapers about watercourses, radio programmes, seed grading facility, banana, wheat, cotton, mango, subsidy on fertilizer & other subjects.
A supplement on Agriculture has been published in the Daily Dawn Karachi.
Publication of Sindh Zara’at Magazine.
Print & distribute booklets and leaflets on various crops and farming technology among the growers.
Film shows through Mobile Audio Video vans.
Press Releases.
Articles etc.
Other Programmes
Individual contact with farmers,
Field farmer days / seminar at various places,
Village level farmers training programmes,
Demonstration of the technology through laying out demonstration plots at farmers field,
Publicity through sign board, burgees etc,
Adulteration in pesticide & fertilizers is being checked.
 
OBJECTIVE
Introduce new crop-technology and crop varieties/ fertilizers / pesticides/ weedicide, farm machinery & tools and collection of statistics.
Provide information to growers on urgent issues like insect pest outbreak, climatic changes, weather forecast.
Introduce new crop-technology and crop varieties/ fertilizers / pesticides/ weedicide, farm machinery & tools and collection of statistics.
Provide information to growers on urgent issues like insect pest outbreak, climatic changes, weather forecast.
Prevent adulteration of pesticides and fertilizers.
To disseminate technologies concerned to all aspects of crop growing, management & marketing to growers at their doorsteps through personal contacts and various means of mass media.
 
INFRA-STRUCTURE
Agriculture Training Institute at Sakrand & Jacobabad.
Radio Units at Hyderbad & Khairpur.
Pesticide Lab at Hyderabad, Rohri, Mirpurkhas and Larkana.
District Officers/Offices at District level.
DDO Officers at Taluka level.
Field Assistant Offices at Tappa level.
Agriculture Officer/Offices at Circle level.
 
AGRICULTURE EXTENSION FARMS
 
Sr. No. Name of Farms
Total Area (acres)
1 Agri Research Farm Pangrio Badin
866.13
2 Seed Farm Dadhurko Badin
866.13
3 Seed Farm Kumb T.M. Khan
389.16
4 Seed Farm Niabaran Hyderabad
562.12
5 Farmer Extension Service Center Reherki Ghotki
60
6 Farmer Ext Service Center Katcho Bindi Ghotki
96
7 Farmer Ext Service Center Kohistan Thatta
148
8 Farmer Ext Service Center Kashmoire
104
9 Farmer Ext Service Center Kandhkot Jacobabad
113
10 Farmer Ext Service Center Karampur Jacobabad
151
11 Farmer Ext Service Center Gosergi Sukkur
50.08
12 Farmer Ext Service Center Ruk Shikarpur
100
13 Extension Farm Kot Ghulam Muhammad Mirpurkhas
30.09
 
Total:-
3201.58