An Analytical Study of Library and Information Services in the Agricultural Libraries of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

India is a purely agriculture based country purely and India s maximum population engaged in agricultural production, process, preservation and marketing. In 5000 BC, Sumerian started an organized agriculture in India and 2300 BC Harappan - Chalcolithic culture, cultivation of wheat, barley, grams and peas in Indus Valley. Aryans came in North India, they bring wheeled rat has drawn by horses and cultivated pulses at Navdatoli, Madhya Pradesh. As per the times, new inventions and developments were found in the field of agriculture time to time. Reason being the awareness of agricultural development, the people awaits the development of agricultural education in the present world. newlineIn the year 1947, India becomes independent. At that time, India faced a lot of problems like food and grain security, population and poverty etc. regarding agriculture sector. The Government of India gave first priority to develop the agriculture sector and agricultural education with research and extension. In 1947, the government of India has changed the name of council was from Imperial Council of Agricultural Research to Indian Council of Agricultural Research, it is bitterly known as ICAR. The ICAR has established a planning for agricultural education, research and extension with a start up of some research institute in India. newlineIn the year 1966, ICAR drafted a Model Agricultural University Act for establishment new agricultural universities and as a part of result 56 SAU, 1 CAU, 4 CAU with agriculture departments, 5 Deemed-to-be-Universities, 17 National Research Centers (NRC), 51 ICAR Institutes, 6 National Bureau (NB), 22 Project Directorates (PD), 60 All India Coordinate Research Projects (AICRP) were started in the last 50 years in India. newlineDue to the development of agricultural education and research, agriculture concept was totally changed. Then the farmers used latest research information and technology and hybrid seeds in their farms in India and other states. As a part of results, agriculture production was increased