Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh
Edited by P Van Mele, CABI Bioscience, Egham, UK, and A Salahuddin
and N P Magor, International Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh
This book examines the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice
Research Assistance) project which developed innovative extension
mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service
providers. Topics addressed by the project include seed production
and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management,
postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated
rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group
extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public
and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension
and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It
includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and
a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost
theory.
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CABI Publishing PB ISBN 0 85199 028 2 £35.00 (US$65.00)
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