Welcome to Department of Agricultural Extension

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is one of the largest public sector agricultural extension provider in Bangladesh. Reconstructed in 1982 with merging of six allied departments.

The Department of Agricultural Extension's mission is to provide efficient and effective needs based extension services to all categories of farmer, to enable them to optimize their use of resources, in order to promote sustainable agricultural and socio-economic development.

The origin of the agricultural development and extension services in this sub-continent literally can be traced back to 1870. Over the periods, a separate Department of Agriculture was established in 1906 with an attached farm over 1000 acres of land in Monipur, Dhaka (presently known as Farmgate). But the real extension activities truly began in 1914 with the establishment of 20 acres demonstration farms in each district. After the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, the Agricultural Extension Programs were continuing as were inherited over past two decades. The present nomenclature of DAE came into existence in 1982 with merging of following departments.

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is responsible for carrying out extension services at the grassroots level throughout the country. It's main functions are:

· To motivate and help farmers in adopting improved production practices to increase their productivity, meet national consumption requirements, maximize export and minimize import.

· To provide farmers with the latest results of research and farm techniques for their socioeconomic betterment.

· To help develop self-reliance and cooperation by training local leadership for organized group action.

· To provide channels for service and information from the MOA and its different departments to the farm people and in turn relay the problems and needs of the farmers that require national level intervention.

· To provide an effective linkage between the various research institutes and the farmers so that along with the flow of technology to the farmers, the farmer's level problems are also brought to the relevant research institutes for investigation and solution.

· To serve as liaison agency between farmers and other organizations, both public and private concern with over-all socioeconomic development of rural people, including the credit giving and input supply agencies.

Sl. no.	Name of the Post	No. of Sanction Post	Sl. no.	Name of the Post	No. of Sanction Post
1.	Director General	01	25	Chemist	01
2.	Director	05	26	Upazila Agricultural Officer	460
3.	Additional Director	18	27	Radio Electrical Engineer	01
4.	Executive Director	01	28	Agricultural Extension Officer	936
5.	Principal	12	29	Quarantine Entomologist	05
6.	Chief Pilot	01	31	Aerial Pest Control Officer	04
7.	Pilot	05	32	Entomologist	04
8.	Additional Chief Engineer	01	33	Plant Pathologist	01
9.	Deputy Director	96	34	Assistant Horticulturist	20
10	Training Officer	64	35	Assistant Agriculturist	01
11	Senior Instructor	33	36	Publication Officer	01
12	Deputy Chief	02	38	Chemist	02
13	Senior Production Economist	01	39	Instructor	63
14	Assistant Director	04	40	Medical Officer	01
15	CPS/PPS/HS	150	41	Junior Engineer	09
16	Senior Instructor	24	42	Mechanical Engineer	01
17	Agricultural Economist	02	43	Statistical Officer	05
18	Assistant Chief	01	44	Research Officer	08
19	Production Economist	05	45	Accounts Officer	02
20	Horticulturist	05		Sub-total	1963
21	Agricultural Engineer	02		Class One Grade	1963
22	Senior Engineer	02		Class Two Grade	505
23	Quarantine Entomologist	01		Class Three Grade	18338
24	Aerial Pest Control officer	02		Class Four Grade	3148
				Total	23954

· Field Services Wing is responsible for providing extension services to farmers throughout the country.

· Training Wing is responsible for providing training services, which equip extension staff with the skills necessary to provide high quality services.

· Planning and Evaluation Wing is responsible for project preparation and on-going monitoring of projects, the Management Information System (MIS), and the evaluation of extension programs.

· Administration and Personnel Wing is responsible for human resource and financial management.

· Food Crops, Cash Crops, Plant Protection and Water Management and Agricultural Engineering wings are responsible for the providing technical support to the extension staff.

Dissemination of technology is the prime responsibility of DAE. It looks after also the sustainability, development of socio-economic condition and monitoring of activities. Present activities are:

2. Arranging seed multiplication programme to make quality seeds available to the farmers.

6. Preparation and implementation of rehabilitation programmes following natural disasters.

8. Motivating the farmers to practice Integrated Pest Management (IPM), IPNS and organic recycling to ensure pollution free environment.

In addition to the regular programmes a number of special programmes are also implemented. These are :

9. Use of mixed fertilizer, urea supergranules and di-amonium phosphate fertilizer.

To encourage the various partners and agencies within the national agricultural extension system to provide efficient and effective services which complement and reinforce each other, in an effort to increase the efficiency and productivity of agriculture in Bangladesh.

All members, male and female, of all types of rural households are entitled to extension services.

Cost- effective services, provided by well-trained, highly skilled extension agents, must be provided to solve farmers, problems. Cost effectiveness will be enhanced by co-operation between extension providers.

As agricultural conditions and farmers information needs vary from place to place, extension programmes must be decided locally.

Farmers problems, needs and demands will set the extension agenda. Issues requiring attention will be identified jointly by farmers and extension staff using participatory techniques.