Through the rural development and extension services component of the National Agricultural Services Programme

Education and training, agricultural extension

With support from agricultural extension services some managed small harvests of sorghum, maize and cow peas.

(h) To encourage extension services to adopt methodologies that are directed towards women (agricultural technologies, pesticides)

The agricultural system is in total disarray, with the irrigation system destroyed, much livestock killed and the agricultural credit and extension services totally defunct.

Agricultural services 45.80

In order to increase the efficiency of extension services, 12 agricultural and rural development centres have been established all over the country.

36. Women in groups often have more bargaining power than individual women in requesting access to land, credit, agricultural services, extension and training.

More and more women in rural areas participate in agricultural extension.

Over 20,000 farmers were trained through extension services.

(c) Establishment of local credit committees at the Extension Agencies of the Centro Nacional de Tecnología Agrícola (National Centre for Agricultural Technology) (CENTA), where banker and agricultural extension worker are brought together

To address the issue, the Government was trying to link provision of health services to the existing system of agricultural and community extension workers who were being trained to provide basic health care services.

Discussions on the type of extension to adopt for women, to start extension services for women.

The World Bank promotes women apos s access to agricultural extension and appropriate technologies.

Inadequate production credit, lack of access to extension services.

82. Experience with industrial extension services has been mixed.

In the Niger, IMF had required the Government to privatize its agricultural support services, in particular the trucks used to ship farm products and the extension services that gave farmers advice and conducted livestock vaccination programmes.

Basic services for agricultural economy and rural population

45. Provision of extension services to women has been problematic.

Rural sanitation could also be improved through strengthening health extension services.

101. Governments have provided various credit facilities, training and extension services.

To implement these measures or Policies, MADER prepared the Integrated Agricultural Program (PROAGRI) in which the management of agricultural lands is a component in addition to others such as agricultural extension, research, etc.

Particular efforts should be devoted to agricultural development, agricultural extension, rural community development, development of arid and semi arid zones, environment and water and energy resources.

The initiative includes a broad array of development initiatives income generation based on licit crop cultivation the strengthening of agricultural extension services the improvement of surface water and groundwater irrigation schemes and the upgrading of health, educational and social services.

Other measures are needed to reduce poverty in rural areas, such as land reform and rights, agricultural extension services, expanding access to health and non contributory social pensions, just to mention some.

Its Agricultural Development Services division provides services such as the processing of loans the granting of agricultural land leases the provision of water supplies and of vegetable and fruit seedlings and the rental of agricultural equipment.

Under this arrangement, the five year Visayas Communal Irrigation Project in the Philippines will provide irrigation facilities in 10,700 hectares of cultivable land and will provide such agricultural support services as extension, inputs and technology.

To that end, it was making its agricultural know how available to its neighbours and other countries in the areas of irrigation, high quality seeds, artificial insemination, machinery and agricultural extension.

This situation is understandable due to poor extension of market activities and because of the gender distribution of labor, which limits the participation of women to housekeeping, with extension only to agricultural production.

The main purpose of the programme is to develop and strengthen extension services in Agriculture.

(iv) Effective monitoring and evaluation systems on the participation of people and on extension services.

Main reasons are inequality in approaching and utilizing resources in agricultural production and a lack of gender sensitivity in the provision of agricultural services.

107. Following a request from LAS, FAO provided the League with the Arabic versions of the Agricultural Extension Reference Manual quot The WCARRD Ten Years of Follow up and the Guide to Extension Training quot .

These included, inter alia, the need for land reclamation in the West Bank, the need for rehabilitation of village roads, water resources development, livestock development, agricultural planning, agricultural marketing and applied research and extension.

The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) shall serve as a reference initiative that structures and standardises agricultural terminology in multiple languages for use of any number of systems in the agricultural domain and provide several services.

Three projects operated by the FAO Office for Special Relief Operations (OSRO) provide emergency supplies of fishing equipment and basic agricultural and veterinary inputs to southern Lebanon and West Bekaa, and assist in strengthening agricultural extension.

The MAWRD, in collaboration with FAO, and NGO's, has embarked on several measures aimed at enhancing agricultural extension capacity and outreach to communal farmers.

In 1948, the government began to stress heavy industry over agricultural and consumer goods and services.

Past efforts in the DNER to reach rural women with extension services were geared toward women's reproductive role.

Such an extension of coverage, however, would entail resources over and above those currently budgeted for financial services.

Library services includes activities whose objectives will be the extension of international sharing of information resources through networking.

World wide, the majority of extension workers tend to be male for example, only 7 per cent of all agricultural extension staff in Africa are women, and for the entire world the figure is only 13 per cent. 22

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