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Information and Communication needsAssessment of National AgriculturalResearch and Extension Systems and theirStakeholders in Armenia

Project TCP/ARM/3103 funded by FAO

Year of publication 2009

Author Milada Kasarjyan; Gertrud Buchenrieder; Jana Fritzsch; Axel Wolz;Knowledge Exchnage and capacity Building Division

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This study aims at assessing the agricultural information and communication priority needs of major stakeholders of the National Agricultural Research and Extension System (NARES) and its clients in Armenia. Prior to the field study, the 16 most important national agricultural organisations, including the Ministry of Agriculture of Armenia, were identified and contacted (on the managerial and ministerial levels). These contacts were visited later for face-to-face interviews (for the fu ll list of the respondents, see Annex 1). The structured questionnaire was designed to collect first-hand information about the organisational structure of the Armenian agricultural sector. Special focus was placed on the information and communication systems (both technical and technological) of the sector, their policies and strategies, and their stakeholders and linkages to farmers.

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