Abstract

                                I have great pleasure in welcoming you to the 27tu meeting of the Advisory Board of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. A number of significant changes in our organisation have taken place since our last meeting. Co-ordination between the commodity committees and the I.. C. A. R. has been stressed for long. This has now been achieved by the enlarged Board of Research and Extension which apart from containing the specialists of the I. C. A. R. has also as members the Directors of Central Research Institutes, the Directors of Commodity Research Institutes as well as the Secretaries of the Commodity Committees. The ultility of this Board on the extension side would also be greatly increased when the representatives of the Ministary of the Community Development are also included. The newly constituted Board has already made a list of results of research schemes which have been completed and which can be passed on to extension workers for general adoption. It has also indicated the items on which work may be intensified and has further indicated the problems on which research schemes should be initiated. It has further recommended that the results of research schemes of the Centre as well as of the States should be classified under two cate- gories, viz. (i) those which can be passed on to research workers and (ii) which can be passed on to Village Level Workers and farmers.

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