Tours and Visits
Study tours that take farmers to a working field, and group visits that bring the province onto the university's farms.
Some things are easier shown standing in the crop.
A leaflet describes a spacing; a field shows it. The Directorate of Extension organises study tours that take farmer groups out to places where a recommended practice is already working — a demonstration plot in a neighbouring village, a research farm at Rajbiraj, a cooperative or an enterprise in another district — so that what is being asked of them can be seen standing in the ground, and asked about directly of the person who did it.
The traffic runs the other way as well. Farmer groups, cooperatives, school and college parties, agriculture knowledge centre staff and visiting delegations are received on the university's research farms and at the training centre, walked through the season's trials and the laboratories, and shown what is being worked on and why.
Visits are arranged through the Directorate of Extension. A group writes in with the number of people, the date it can travel and what it wants to see, and the directorate fixes a date that falls when the crop is worth looking at.
Farmer study tours
Groups taken out to demonstration plots, farms and enterprises worth seeing.
Field visits in
Guided walks through the season's trials on the university's research farms.
Student and school parties
Campus, laboratory and farm visits for school and college groups.
Delegations and exchange
Visits from partner institutions, agencies and local government.
How a visit is arranged
- 01A group applies to the Directorate of Extension with numbers and dates
- 02A date is fixed for the point in the season when the crop is worth seeing
- 03A route and a subject are set — which plots, which divisions, which practice
- 04A technician accompanies the group and answers on the spot
- 05Printed material on what was seen is handed out at the end
- 06Questions raised on the visit go back to the research programme