Agriculture is a techno-social effort with people involved as farmers, extensionists, trainers, scientists, managers, and policy makers. The teaching, research, and outreach work of the Department of Agricultural Extension focus on strengthening the ‘social’ aspects of agriculture to make it relevant and meet human needs. Realizing the increasing importance of agricultural extension as an academic discipline, the Department was established in 1995, moving away from the then Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension. This is the only Department dealing solely with Agricultural Extension in the university system of Sri Lanka. Agricultural extension courses are offered throughout the four years of the undergraduate degree programmes, especially for the B.Sc. in Agricultural Technology and Management. Department also teaches students in the Animal Science & Fisheries, and Food Science & Technology degree programmes offered by the Faculty of Agriculture. A variety of courses are offered based on different aspects of agricultural extension such as Agricultural Extension Education, Agricultural Communication, Agricultural Sociology, Productivity Enhancement Training, Organizational Management, Human Resource Management and Career Development etc. These courses are taught by staff members who have the expertise and background of education with industry experience. Department is closely linked with the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA) through the Board of Study in Agricultural Extension established in 1995. The academic staff of the Department is involved in conducting courses and also serve as research supervisors and examiners of PGIA students in their MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees. Students following the advanced module are provided many opportunities through activities such as farmer training by students, video production, field and organizational visits, and outbound training.
06-Mar-2023
Sri Lanka Red Cross Society - Kurunegala Branch, hosted a two day residential workshop in Galgamuwa for agriculture students of University of Peradeniya, as a part of thier Ground water Recharging Project for Disaster Preparedness Project.
Students were able to visit some areas where Ground Water Recharging Units have been installed by the project and locations where climate change adaption projects are implemented. They had the opportunity to have discussions with resource personnels regarding the research that htey are carrying on.
Agricultural Extension majoring students together with few students from other majoring fields including soil science and crop science, joined with the programme. Further, 15 students from the seconde year also had the priviledge in attending the sessions.
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23-Jan-2023
Annual Farmer day event which is organized in parallel to the Development Extension course offered in the 1100 semester was held in Mahailluppallama on 19th January. This is an event done by the students for the farmer community with the objective of educating and sharing technology and knowledge for the betterment of their lives.
'Krushi 2023' training and exhibition was held at the Mahailluppallama sub campus premises with the participation of students from thirteen schools from around Mahailluppallama area including Anuradhpura Central College. Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya was hosted the event as the chief guest. Miss Madhavi Wijerathne, the course coordinator of the Development Extension course, Prof. W.A.P. Weerakkody the chairmen in National Institute of Post Harvest Management and lecturers from the faculty of Agriculture and other officials from the organizations which assisted the students in organizing the event participated for 'Krushi 2023' training and exhibition. The 2020/2021 batch was in charge of organizing this year farmer day. They had planned 21 stalls where 20 stalls were evaluated by six evaluators from the faculty academic staff. Final stall was a commercial based stall where hindu traditional food were sold.Farmers from aroud the area, farmer organizations, inservice institute in Anuradhapura and employees from FMRC particpated in the event.
Information related to correcting post harvest practiices, GAP, mobile application usage in sprinkler management, imporatance of farm budget and record keeping, weed managemnt practices, agronomical practices related to coconut cultivation and hydroponic technology in green houses any many other imporatant information and technical know-how were shared with the audience
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09-Jan-2023
Faculty of Agriculture undergraduate Research Symposium (FAuRS) 2021/2022 was held on 28th December last year. The event was held at the Department of Animal Science in the Faulty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.
FAuRS is a platform for emerging young researchers to share their research findings with a wider audience. Parallel to the research symposium, annually the faculty holds competitions for undergraduates where they can showcase their talents in communicating their research findings to a general public. There are open and closed competitions. Research video competition is an open competition where any final year undergraduate can compete. Miss R.G.N.D Jayasinghe (AG/16/061) from the Department of Agricultural Extension was placed as the first runner up while Miss P.W.N.T Weerasinghe (AG/16/210) won the third place.
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05-Jul-2022
Final year research project presentations of the Development Communication and Organizational Management majoring undergraduates was held on 8th December 2022 at the Department of Agricultural Extension. Research projects relating to organizational management, communication and development extension were presented. Miss R.G.N.D Jayasinghe was awarded fro the best seminar presentation and was given the A.T Mosher award.
Dr Wijaya Jayathilaka the former dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Prof. M.I.M Mowjood from the Departemtn of Agricultural Engineering joined the event as the judge panel. Head of the Dpaertment of Agriculural Extension and other lecturers participated in the event. A.T Mosher award is annually presnted to the best oral presenter from the final presentations of the undergraduates.
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10-Jan-2023
The University of Peradeniya held the official launch of the Media Incubator Space on November 10, 2022, to inaugurate the Incubator Space. Mr. Nicolas GERARD, International Aid Cooperation Officer and Program Manager for the European Union delegation to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Mrs. Subhashi Dissanayake, Country Director for HELVETAS Sri Lanka, and Prof. M. D. Lamawansa, Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, attended the event. Prof. Sarath Kodithuwakku, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Dr. Uvasara Dissanayake, the Head of the Department of Agricultural Extension, Mr. Azad Mustafa, the Programme Director of SDJF, members of the InSPIRE Team from HELVETAS and SDJF, as well as faculty members and undergraduate students from the Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Arts were also present at the event.
The European Union is funding the "Incubator Space for Promoting Information Right and Freedom of Expression" (InSPIRE) project, which is being carried out in conjunction with the Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum and HELVETAS Inter cooperation gGmbH Sri Lanka.
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03-Jan-2023
Gender debate series which is annually conducted by the Gender Education and Women Initiative unit of the Department of Agricultural Extension was conducted successfully from 17th to 28th of October, 2022. The purpose of 'GENERO 2022' was to sensitize the community on gender issues.
Eight teams representing the five batches of the faculty, participated in the debate series. The 20th batch's "Team Elite" and the 16th batch's "Team Omega" competed in the grand finale. Final debate was held at the Appadurai auditorium with the presence of Dr. Wijaya Jayathilaka as the chief guest. The panel of judges, head of the Department of Extension Dr. Uvasara Dissanayeke, head of the gender unit Miss Madhavi Wijerathne, other academic staff members and students of the faculty of Agriculture participated in the event. GENERO 2022 was won by the 'Team Elite' of 20th batch.
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10-Jan-2023
Faculty of Agriculture undergraduate Research Symposium (FAuRS) 2021/2022 was held on 28th December last year. The event was held at the Department of Animal Science in the Faulty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.
FAuRS is a platform for emerging young researchers to share their research findings with a wider audience. Parallel to the research symposium, annually the faculty holds competitions for undergraduates where they can showcase their talents in communicating their research findings to a general public. There are open and closed competitions. Poster presentation and the oral presentation are two major competitions which the departments send their nominees.
This year, the symposium had 27 oral presentation nominees and 27 poster presentation nominees. Under 4 themes, competitions were held. Miss H.D.H.S Hathurusinghe from the Department of Agricultural Extension was awarded for the best poster presentation under the theme Community, Environment and Management. Her presentation was titled as “The factors affecting the decision-making styles of branch managers of private sector banks. She has focused on analysing the effect of perceived stress, self-efficacy and the cognitive biases on the use of a certain decision making style.
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With the participation of faculty members, students, SDJF, and Helvetas staff, the media products created by the University of Peradeniya's undergraduate students were launched at the university's Media Incubator Space on 08th February 2023. in parallel to that, two sharing sessions were held there, where University of Peradeniya members of the Inspire network shared their media products with students from other departments and faculties to spark conversation and dialogue on the issues raised in the media products.
Explore MoreMajoring students visited Galkadapathana village in Walapane district as a part of their Journalism and Media Course offered in the final year. As the final product, they produced a tourism promotional video for the village. Students got the opportunity to gain a hand on experience in the whole process of producing a video.
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