New Paradigms in Agricultural Education in India

Abstract

The New Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) of India provisioned that “the design of agricultural education
will have to be strengthened towards developing professionals with the ability to understand and use local
knowledge, traditional knowledge and emerging technologies, while being cognizant of critical issues of declining
profi tability and/or productivity but enhanced economic aspirations of farmers, climate change, food suffi ciency,
etc.”. Based on the principles and philosophy of NEP-2020, a roadmap and Implementation Strategy for NEP-
2020 in Agricultural Education System has been prepared and released on 28 September, 2021 during the Annual
Vice-Chancellors Conference in New Delhi.