Some Lessons of the Bhagavadi Demonstration. Farm

Abstract

The Bhagavadi Demonstration farm represents a unique effort of the department and it is perhaps the only one of its kind, Its objective is not the straight one of modernising agriculture by trans- lating the results of research to the ryots' stook of knowledge and practices; but merely to find out, in the words of the original, the reaction of the ryot to tested measures of improvement; and the methods adopted are not obtrusive, but are directed to a close observation from behind the screen, of the path of these improved methods and means of cultivation in the lands of a chosen population of ryots. This is obviously a technique seldom adopted for propaganda and although the farm is euphemistically named a demonstration farm, there is the least attempt to demonstrate. It should not be surprising that, for that very reason. the results are more revealing and the insight closer; for as is often said, none knows when the acorns giving rise to huge forest trees are sown in a forest, while, when a tree falls, the whole forest reverberates with the noise.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04465

Pages

50 - 54

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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