Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
Extension

Student READY Programme

The Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana) programme aims to provide rural entrepreneurship awareness, practical experience in real-life situation in rural agriculture and creating awareness to undergraduate students about practical agriculture and allied sciences.


To reorient graduates of agriculture and allied subjects for ensuring and assuring employability and develop entrepreneurs for emerging knowledge intensive agriculture, the component envisages the introduction of the programme as an essential prerequisite for the award of degree to ensure hands on experience and practical training.



B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture

The students will undertake student READY program during the seventh semester for a total duration of 20 weeks with a weightage of 0+20 credit hours in two parts


  • Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE)&

  • In-Plant Training/Agro Industrial Attachment (AIA)


It will consist of general orientation and on campus training by different faculties followed by village attachment/unit attachment in University/ College/ KVK or a research station. The students would be attached with the agro-industries to get an experience of the industrial environment and working. Due weightage in terms of credit hours, will be given depending upon the duration of stay of students in villages/agro-industries. At the end of RAWE & AIA, the students will be given one week for project report preparation, presentation and evaluation. The students would be required to record their observations in field and agro-industries on daily basis and will prepare their project report based on these observations.



Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) Credits: 16 (0+16)


Objectives


  1. To provide an opportunity to the students to understand the rural setting in relation to agriculture and allied activities.

  2. To make the students familiar with socio-economic conditions of the farmers and their problems.

  3. To impart diagnostic and remedial knowledge to the students relevant to real field situations through practical training.

  4. To develop communication skills in students using extension teaching methods in transfer of technology.

  5. To develop confidence and competence to solve agricultural problems.

  6. To acquaint students with on-going extension and rural development programmes.



Component- II


Agro-Industrial Attachment (AIA) Credits:4 (0+4)


Technology and globalization are ushering an era of unprecedented change. The need and pressure for change and innovation is immense. To enrich the practical knowledge of the students, in-plant training shall be mandatory in the last semester for a period of up to 3 weeks. In this training, students will have to study a problem in industrial perspective and submit the reports to the college. Such in-plant trainings will provide an industrial exposure to the students as well as to develop their career in the high tech industrial requirements.In-Planttraining is meant to correlate theory and actual practices in the industries. It is expected that sense of running an industry may bearticulated in right way through this type of industrial attachment mode.


Objectives


  1. To expose the students to Industrial environment, this cannot be simulated in the university.

  2. To familiarize the students with various Materials, Machines, Processes, Products and their applications along with relevant aspects of shop management.

  3. To make the students understand the psychology of the workers, and approach to problems along with the practices followed at factory

  4. To understand the scope, functions and job responsibilities in various departments of an organization.

  5. To expose various aspects of entrepreneurship during the programme period.


Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) & Agro Industrial Attachment (AIA)

No.

Activity

Credit(s)

Maximum Marks

Component - I Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE)

1

Survey of Village

0+1

50

2

Agronomical Interventions

0+3

50

3

Plant Protection Interventions

0+2

50

4

Soil Improvement Interventions(Soil sampling and testing)

0+2

50

5

Fruit and Vegetable production interventions

0+3

50

6

Food Processing and Storage interventions

0+1

50

7

Animal Production Interventions

0+1

50

8

Extension and Transfer of Technology activities

0+3

50

Component - II Agro-Industrial Attachment (AIA)

9

Agro-Industrial Attachment

0+4

50

Total

0+20

450

B.Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture


The students of B.Sc. (Hons.) Hort. will undertake student READY program during the seventh semester for a total duration of 24weeks with a weightage of 0+20 credit hours in two parts:


  • Rural Horticultural Work Experience (RHWE)

  • In-Plant Training/Horti-Industrial Attachment (HIA)



It will consist of general orientation and on campus training by different faculties followed by village attachment/unit attachment in University/ College/ KVK or a research station. The students would be attached with the horti-industries to get an experience of the industrial environment and working. Due weightage in terms of credit hours will be given depending upon the duration of stay of students in villages/horti-industries. At the end of RHWE &HIA, the students will be given one week for project report preparation, presentation and evaluation. The students would be required to record their observations in field and horti-industries on daily basis and will prepare their project report based on these observations.


Component- I

Rural Horticultural Work Experience (RHWE) Credits: 10 (0+10)

  1. To provide an opportunity to the students to understand the rural setting in relation to horticulture and allied activities (village settlement pattern, demography, land utilization pattern, resources inventory, infrastructural facilities, rural institutions, organizations, groups, customs, beliefs and value system etc.).

  2. To make the students familiar with socio-economic conditions of the farmers and their problems.

  3. To impart diagnostic and remedial knowledge to the students relevant to real field situations through practical training.

  4. To study the cropping pattern, extent of adoption of latest technologies and identify the constraints in horticultural crops.

  5. To develop communication skills in students using extension teaching methods in transfer of technology.

  6. To develop confidence and competence to solve horticultural problems.

  7. To acquaint students with on-going extension and rural development programmes.

Component- II

Horti-Industrial Attachment (HIA) Credits: 10 (0+10)


Technology and globalization are ushering an era of unprecedented change. The need and pressure for change and innovation is immense. To enrich the practical knowledge of the students, in-plant training shall be mandatory in the second last semester for a period of up to 12 weeks inclusive of report preparation, presentation and evaluation etc. In this training, students will have to study a problem in industrial perspective and submit the reports to the college. Such in-plant trainings will provide an industrial exposure to the students as well as to develop their career in the high tech industrial requirements. In-Plant training is meant to correlate theory and actual practices in the industries. It is expected that sense of running an industry may be articulated in right way through this type of industrial attachment mode.

Objective

  1. To expose the students to Industrial environment, this cannot be simulated in the university.

  2. To familiarize the students with various Materials, Machines, Processes, Products and their applications along with relevant aspects of industry management and constraints faced by an industry.

  3. To make the students understand the psychology of the workers, and approach to problems along with the practices followed at industry.

  4. To understand the scope, functions and job responsibilities in various departments of an organization.

  5. To expose various aspects of entrepreneurship during the programme period.

Rural Horticulture Work Experience (RHWE) & Horti-Industrial Attachment (HIA)

No.

Activity

Credit(s)

Maximum Marks

Component - I Rural Horticulture Work Experience (RHWE)

1

Survey of Village

0+1

50

2

Horticultural Interventions

  • Fruit production
  • Vegetable Production
  • Commercial Floriculture
  • Spices, medicinal and aromatic crops
  • Post harvest technology and value addition

0+5

50

3

Soil Improvement Interventions (Soil sampling and testing)

0+1

50

4

Plant Protection Interventions (Entomology & Plant Pathology)

0+2

50

5

Extension and Transfer of Technology Activities

0+1

50

Horti-Industrial Attachment (HIA)

6

Horti-Industrial Attachment

0+10

200


Total

0+20

450

The Vishwa Vidhyalaya has prepared manual for RAWE/AIA/ and RHWE/HIA, which guide the students and teachers in achieving exquisite objective of the programme. The manual is revised regularly because of the changing cropping pattern as well as meeting the revised curriculum of ICAR.


B.Sc. (Hons.) Forestry


Work Experience (FWE and Industrial Attachment)


FWE is a 120 days training programme as an essential degree requirement under new course curriculum. In this programme the students are placed in village as well as forest department for intensive work in forestry sector. During the training programme the student will study the situation of socio-economic components of rural life, through rural participation and forest management.


Objectives of FWE:


  1. To develop an understanding of forest and rural life in different situations prevailing in a village/cluster of small village.

  2. To understand socio-economic and institutional aspects of village ecosystem

  3. To provide an opportunity for practical training in forestry activities through work experience.

  4. To develop communication skills in “Transfer of Technology”.

  5. To understand forestry including agro-forestry technologies adopted by local farmers and forestry related organizations/ enterprises and to prepare forestry management plans specific to site in consolation with the village and forestry related professions.


Components of FWE


S.No Components Days Credits
1. Orientation 10 0+1
2. Forest Range Training Programme 50 0+12
3. Industrial Placement 20 0+3
4. Weapon Training and First Aid Training 5+3=8 0+1
5. Socio-economic Surveys and Village Attachment 20 0+2
6. Report writing and Presentation 12 0+1

Total

120

0+20





REPORTS SUBMITTED BY RAWE STUDENTS

Status of RAWE/ RHWE/ FWE (2020-21 to 2022-23)


Year/Programme 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 Total
Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls
B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture 269 141 278 145 329 166 1328
B.Sc. (Hons.) Forestry 11 7 10 9 14 11 62
B.Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture -- -- 54 14 73 32 173
Total 280 148 342 168 416 209 1563

Glimpses of RAWE/FEW/AIA



Preparation of Resource Map during PRA
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Seed treatment of paddy seeds

Seed treatment of Gram Seeds

Preparation of seedling in tray

Fertilizers application in paddy field

Preparation of field by bakhar

Sowing of paddy seeds in nuresery field

Uprooting of paddy seedlings

Transplanting of paddy crop

Transplantig of Rice

Hand weeding in Rice crop

Harvesting

Mushroom Demonstrations

Spawn production at Mushroom Unit Bags Preparation



AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT



FOREST WORK EXPERIENCE & INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT

Govt. Horticulture Nurser, Sanchi, Raisen

Maa Bhawani Gud Ghana Crusher Udyog, Betul

Training in tusser reeling centre, Waraseoni

Training in ruchi biochemical on production

Training in silk production unit, Mandla

Movable and Immovable Vermi-compost bed preparartion