The extension and outreach component of the land-grant mission of the tennessee state university is carried out through the cooperative extension program, in the college of agriculture

The mission and purpose of the cooperative extension program is to provide RES earch-based, useful, and practical information to the residents of tennessee, through informal education to improve social, economic and environmental conditions. TSU's cooperative extension program puts extra effort to reach out to the limited-resource farmers, producers, and others in the state of tennessee. And the program works collaboratively with university of tennessee, the department of agriculture, and the county governments. TSU extension has county extension agents/educators, program assistants, and support staff in 60 counties across the state. Our county personnel receive their training and educational/teaching material from the 20 campus-based extension faculty/specialists. Cooperative extension at tennessee state university is organized to address critical issues in four educational programming categories. I. Agriculture and natural resources (ANR) the agriculture, natural resources (ANR) programs focuses on assisting farmers and local communities in growing field crops or home gardens to produce food and enhance environmental integrity of the agroecosystem. This program provides a wide variety of researchbased training programs to farmers to enhance their productivity, farm profitability, and quality of life. The key components of this program include entomology, plant pathology, soil health, bioenergy, plant nutrition, horticulture, drone technology, economics, agricultural communications and organic agriculture. The overall goal of the ANR program is to enhance the rural prosperity. II. Family and consumer sciences (FCS) family consumer science program focuses on community nutrition education, nutrition security, family and child development and health education through the extension agents and campus based faculty with the objective of improving health and wellbeing of the population. III. Extension 4-H youth development program the 4-H and youth development program focuses on workforce preparation, stem education, life skills development, youth leadership and citizenship development and communication skills. IV. Community resources and economic development: the focus of this program is to provide information and education on community development, economic development and leadership development. To achieve this objective, TSU extension program provides agribusiness and entrepreneurship training to farmers. The training includes topics on management, basic accounting, economic principles, budgets, whole-farm planning, land acquisition, tax management, and whole farm planning. The program also provides training to local businesses on business planning, entrepreneurship, modern marketing and economic development.