About Lesson
- The public sector, under the GON, is the major extension service provider in Nepal. Under the MOAD, the Departments of Agriculture and Livestock Services are the responsible institutions for extension services provision.
- In all 75 districts of the country, District Agriculture Development Offices (DADOs) and District Livestock Services Offices (DLSOs) are respectively designated for agriculture and livestock extension services.
- In the agriculture subsector, the number of Agriculture Service Centers (ASCs) located at the sub-district level is fixed—4 each in Terai and mountains, and six in the mid-hill districts
- ASC/LSC are designed irrespective of the number of farm households, the scale of commercialization, the agricultural area covered, the types of crops grown, the level of poverty faced, access to information and connectivity, the existence of rural infrastructures, and so forth.
- Farmers can visit the ASCs to seek advice, and extension workers do not have to make regular schedules to visit them, except for a definite purpose of their own.
- The total number of ASCs is 378 throughout the country while in the livestock subsector, there are 999 Livestock Service (Sub-) Centers (LS(S) Cs) varying in number from one district to another.
