• The system was implemented with the recruitment of volunteers “The Tukis” to the VDC after an intensive 15-day long progressive farmers training. They received four trainings in a year before the agriculture seasons
• The main features of the Tuki system are as follows:

a) This system did not generate new technologies for use by the farmers but relied on technologies developed by commodity research programs in the country and screened them through the conduct of adaptive trials in the three agricultural farms by the researchers in the project districts.

b) A package of seeds and fertilizers was also distributed to test their suitability in the local condition. Then the researchers met with the extension staff to relay the results of the trials conducted. Farmers’ trainings were conducted every quarter with the involvement of researchers.

• Volunteers were called ‘Tukis’ who had high respect within the community, with willing to help their farmer neighbors with modern technologies, maintained their model farms, distributed agricultural inputs to farmers, and were also interested in interacting with neighbors regarding modern farming issues.
• The Tuki system, however, did not expand beyond the two project districts, and the operation, since it was the conventional approach described earlier after IHDP was phased out in 1990.