About Lesson
- Emphasize strengthening the existing conventional extension system with additional temporary manpower, the supply of production inputs, construction of Agriculture Service Centers and additional fund for services.
- Adopted the conventional extension system described earlier and focused on the intensity with which to implement the extension interventions. The projects in different locations varied in terms of project components, level of funding, coverage of geographical area from a single district to the entire zone, density of extension service, and so forth.
- The Ministry of Local Development (MLD) was the central coordinating agency and the Project Coordinator was deputed from there. Individual components were to be implemented by the respective ministries through their district level line agencies.
- The task of integration was found difficult because of the varying rules and working guidelines adopted by different line ministries and the line of command was unclear due to the presence of many bosses that extension had to report to. The cost of extension services was moderate under the IRDPs.
- Grass roots level extension infrastructures like ASC buildings, market yards, trails, rural roads and small irrigation schemes proved to be of worth and some of them are still useful today.
- Research-extension linkage worked through strengthening existing agricultural farms within the project area while others relied heavily on the available technology and was promoted through the DADOs.
- At later stages, it was realized that technology was not available for all categories of farmers (e.g. irrigated/non-irrigated conditions) to adopt based on the assumption of green revolution technology app.
