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.

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