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This is Dr. Deogratias Lwezaura from the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture, again.
I continue to congratulate the remarkable contributions. One of the many points I am learning from Message 82 by Gabriel Adukpo and others is that we need to go as a multidisplinary team (sociologist, cooperative officer, economist, extension officer, value chain experts, etc.) in family farms engagement. In this way we will avoid placing too much to extension officers, which in the end we may not achieve the knowledge required to the farmers. So, extension services would need a well-coordinated approach with the involvement of various actors each playing his/her area of expertise.
Another point which I think we have missed out in our approaches is embracing wholesale the advisory services from the West and tending too much to apply knowledge based on theories without adapting them based in our family farms context. It is of significance that we Africanize our methodologies of agricultural advisory services - make them African. The issue of integrating indigenous knowledge of family farms into the mainstream of advisory services is critical.
Dr. Deogratias Lwezaura (PhD)
Ministry of Agriculture
Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
Mobile: 255 754 273 997
e-mail: lwezaura (at) hotmail.com
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