Resources Tagged: Agricultural Extension Workers
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2006-01-01 With limited resources for plant breeding in developing countries many of the species considered to have potential for focused and relatively rapid improvement do not receive the attention they deserve. Plant breeders have little choice other than to place their limited resources on improving...
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2002-01-01 This manual identifies the important aspects of the improved technology and identifies the products and opportunities for improving their marketing. Many of the varieties and the management practices mentioned in this manual, however, are based on experience in the Indian and South Asian region....
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AGRISprovides a great opportunity to increase analysis of agricultural performance and, consequently, help inform agriculture investment, innovation and policy to drive changes toward increasing sustainability in the agriculture sector. The platform provides free access to more than13 million...
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This paper outlines three agricultural and rural extension market reforms and two non-marketing reforms, at all times emphasizing stakeholder, and particularly enduser, participation in the approaches employed in these reforms. It also recognizes the need for non-farm microenterprise development...
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2000-01-01 This publication discusses the training of mid-career extension staff while at the same time strengthening the capacities of the participating universities and colleges.This lack of proper training hampers research-extension linkages and results in slow diffusion of technology to farmers. 73...
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Extension workers foster effective two-way communication between farmers and support services in the role of facilitators. They help farmers develop a new sense of competent autonomy, as they confront together the world that is changing around them.