Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego w Poznaniu

The manual has been a try of presenting in a form of a book, and in a certain order, information collected from various sources and the author’s own experience. The individual lectures had to be updated to current world’s situations, e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and online education. It also came from work done for some institutions connected with seed sector in Poland and other countries.

Introduction

1. The main terms and definitions

2. History of the extension activities in the seed sector

3. Seed extension work organization in the world and in Poland

4. Seed sector in the world and the European Union

5. Methods of work in the extension

6. Theoretical bases of the learning process

7. Specifics of the work of a seed advisor

8. Preparing extension programmes

9. Ethics in extension work

10. Extension activities in the time of COVID-19 global pandemic

11. A new perspective in extension work

12. Examples of extension materials
12.1. Instruction how to grow common bean for the seed purpose
12.2. Research problems and areas of plant breeding activity after 2007
12.3. Main points to the strategy for plant breeding and seed sector (Polish Seed Trade Association, PIN)

References