Implications for Agricultural Education
Integration of research and education is central to the creation of SAUs in India. The
challenges faced by the agricultural research system in incorporating the sustainability
perspective will also be applicable to agricultural universities in general. In addition, SAUs
face the additional challenge of incorporating the sustainability perspective into their
education programmes. These prorammes have evolved around the prevailing green
revolution paradigm of high-yielding varieties, input-intensive management and relative
certainty in defining the production systems. The typical organization of any SAU points to
their basis being in this paradigm: they are organized into disciplinary divisions and focus on
the major economic crops in the area of their operation