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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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I am Ngouambe Nestor, Agricultural economist (Agricultural Extension), Regional officer for Farmer Organization Registry at the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development in Cameroon. I am also the main Founder of the Cameroon Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (www.facebook.com/CAMFAAS) to be officially launched in January. I am also coordinating Cameroon Youth Initiative for Rural Development (CAMYIRD).

I just want to comment a point raised by Dr Mahesh Chander (Message 1) when he said that: "Effective extension services can help develop appropriate technologies and their speedy transfer to the target group farmers only when micro-level situations are correctly assessed before making interventions". I agree with this point, because if some key facilities are not built around smallholders, it would be very difficult to ensure appropriate extension services. When I was an extension agent working in rural areas, it was too difficult to access villages because of bad roads. Based on that experience, I realized that we cannot talk about extension services without taking into account the farmer's micro-level situation.

Ngouambe Nestor
Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development 
Cameroon
Tel: +237 77 62 41 21 / 79 71 78 09
Skype: manuel.rayan
YPARD Cameroon team: www.ypard.net
AFAAS Cameroon Team: www.afaas-africa.org
Blogpost:- https://ngouambe.wordpress.com
             - http://agriculture-infos.blogspot.com
e-mail: Ngouambe (at) gmail.com

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