Suggestions Offered by Unreached Farmers, Scientists and Extension Functionaries for Reaching the Unreached Farmers of Tamil Nadu State

In a country like India, agriculture is a major source of income. As reported by many organizations and institutions India stands first and a major producer in many products like fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, important spices, jute, millets etc. More than 70 per cent of population is depending on agriculture for sustainable livelihood and about 60 per cent of total net sown area is under rainfed agriculture (GK Today, 2014) and stands first in value of rainfed products. Around 17 per cent of the total world population is residing only in India. Population increased many fold over a period, to feed every stomach it is essential to cultivate more area from the available land especially small and marginal farms. Government of India and state governments intervened in different aspects to increase production by effectively utilizing all the possible resources. Majority of Indian farmers are still unreached to modern technologies because of various reasons even after all possible interventions were made by the government. From the present study on „Suggestions offered by unreached farmers, scientists and extension functionaries for reaching the unreached farmers of Tamil Nadu State‟ we could find many suggestions as provided by the unreached farmers, extension functionaries of the state department of agriculture of Tamil Nadu and extension scientists of state agricultural universities. The suggestions (30 numbers) offered may be considered to enhance the production by effective utilization of available resources of small and marginal farms along with progressive farmers.