'This book offers a unique cultivation of mind as to how we can go for stewardship and conservation policy and intervention for small farm reality. It has gone far beyond the \'romanticized\' farm stewardship, for bigger holding sizes, say more than one hectare of land, yet to take account the feasibility of stewardship operations for tiny holdings, 1-1.5 hectares as predominant in most of the Asian countries based on hard evidences. While American and European farms are mostly belonging to consolidated and big size holdings, Asian part of global agriculture has been coercive in the form of soil erosion, water contamination and dwindling farm income, which are mostly due to marginalization and impoverishment of both income and livelihood from farm. This is really a difficult task, of course is of huge scholastic interest, for making the farmers understand that through proper stewardship Read more Table of Contents Foreword v Preface vii 1. Introduction 1 2. Citation and Related Literature 5 3. Theoretical Orientation 35 4. Social Ecology and Setting 78 5. Research Methodology 89 6. Empirical Studies : Part A 101 7. Empirical Studies : Part B 119 8. Conclusion 166 9. Future Scope of the Study 168 Bibliography 170 Annexure I 189 Annexure II 191 Index 193 About the Author/Editor Dr. Moumita Dey Gupta received M.Sc.(Ag.) in Agricultural Extension (2014), Ph.D. in Agricultural Extension (2018) under the guidance of Prof S K Acharya in the Dept. of Agricultural Extension, from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication (2017) from Netaji Subhas Open University. She was a recipient of the DST INSPIRE Fellowship for securing the highest overall grade point in M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Extension (2015). She has qualified ICAR and UGC NET in the year 2016. She has already authored 2 more books . She has also contributed some book chapters and a good count of research papers in national and international Journals. Presently, she is working as Subject Matter Specialist (Agricultural Extension) at WBCADC, KVK Bankura since 2018 and is disseminating new technologies through leaflet, folder, newspaper, and radio broadcast in vernacular for the farming community of the state with a great zeal. Prof. Sankar Kr Acharya, former Head, Dept. of Agril Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, WB, born on 6th October, 1960, started his career as Assistant Professor at BCKV in 1988 and has been in teaching, research and extension over 30 years. Research Publication: 217 in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 99 books authored/ co-authored Membership of Distinction: Chancellor Nominee on selection committee for professors positions; Member of Agriculture Commission; Marketing and Extension Sub Committee, Govt. of West Bengal; Expert member WWF projects in BTR (Buxa Tiger Reserve Project); Expert member; DFID project on Primary Education (DPEP); REIA, Visited Italy, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Delivered 18 Key note addresses in International Congress, Chaired 19 Sessions in International conferences, Editors of a score of national and international journals. He has so far been awarded with 13 best paper awards in National and International Conferences Organizing Secretary of two International Conferences, He has also been honoured to be selected as the Convener of Panel (PE-32) entitled The hunger , poverty and silence of IUAES, University of Manchester, UK, 2013. He is the fellow, ISEE, IARI, New Delhi. Dr. Amit Baran Sharangi is a Professor of BCKV (Agricultural University) attached with teaching, research and extension for about 23 years. He completed his Post-Doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is specially trained from IISR, IIHR & ARO (Tel Aviv, Israel); experienced in herbs, spices and medicinal-aromatic plants. He worked at laboratories of Australia, USA and UK for continuing research on those crops as well as teaching Post Graduate students in the universities abroad. Prof Sharangi has several international awards including FULBRIGHT (USA), INSA-RSE Visiting Scientist (UK), Endeavour Award (Australia), Marquis Who's Who (USA), Young Achievers Award (SADHNA), Higher Education Leadership Award, Outstanding Scientist Award, Bharat Ratna Mother Teresa Gold Medal Award, etc. He is Fellow of eight prestigious academies/societies and members of many international bodies having academic repute. He has published about 85 peer-reviewed papers, 25 books and numerous book chapters within his subject area. He is also associated with 50 journals worldwide as editor-in-chief, associate editor, regional & technical editor, editorial board member and active reviewer. He has administrative experience for four years as HOD, chaired several sessions of national and international conferences, run six projects so far as PI and Co-PI, developed as well as restructured PG courses as BSMA committee member (DG, ICAR, Govt of India) at national level. Read less