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Agricultural extension manual for extension workers

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Apia, Samoa ;

Pages 40

Author Khalid, S.M.N.; Sherzad, S.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In the context of sustainable agricultural development, agricultural extension has a very crucial role to play. The tasks and responsibilities of extension service will need to be broadbased and holistic in contents and scope, thus beyond agricultural technology transfer. Its normal task of transferring and disseminating to farmers appropriate agricultural technologies and good farm practices would not be sufficient. Extension agencies, services, and workers will need to exercise a more proactive and participatory role and serve as knowledge/information "brokers", initiating and facilitating mutually meaningful and equitable knowledge-based transactions among agricultural researchers, trainers, and primary producers. To improve its cost-effectiveness, proper strategies to advocate favorable and explicit agricultural extension policies are needed. Modern strategic planning and quality management tools and approaches should be utilized in developing or restructuring extension organizations or institutions. More innovative methods must be developed to identify systematically farmer’s problems and felt needs, and to help formulate and set agricultural research agenda based on such needs and problems. In short, there is a need to develop and improve the conceptual, technical, and operational methods and tools in order to strategically plan, efficiently manage, and scientifically evaluate a problem-solving, demand-driven and needs-based agricultural extension program. This manual is a practical guide for extension workers in agriculture. It contains simple, easy to follow tools on the commonly used extension methods and an outline of how extension may be planned and implemented.

This manual is produced under FAO funded project - TCP/MIC/3601 “Strengthening the capacity of Farmers Associations to increase production and marketing of root crops, fruits and vegetables in FSM”

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FAO. 2019. Agricultural Extension Manual. Apia. 40 pp. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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