The Professor of Agricultural Economics of this section is one of the members of Technical Committee of District Central Co-operative banks of Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts for deciding the scale of finance for various crops in these districts. The Professor of Agril. Economics has performed the additional duties of Officer Incharge of Academic Matters, college of Agriculture Kolhapur.
During the year 2010-11 staff of the section were appointed as a Subject matter Specialist (SMS) to different centres in RAWE Programme and delivered lectures in respect of how to fill the questionnaire and estimate the cost of cultivation of different crops. The staff members from this section participated in Shetkari Melawas, group meetings and gave guidance to farmers as regards to Agril. Marketing, Agril. Finance, Alternative Farm plan, Farm budgeting etc. during RAWE programme.
The Staff members of this section has also guided the students in respect of how to work out economics of different economic activities and how to prepare project proposal for the same in various modules of Experiential Learning.
The staff members of this section guided the students in preparing for competitive and JRF examination for encouraging them to develop their all-round personalities.
