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

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Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:09:29 +0100
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This is Puruswattam Rauniyar, again.



Actually, there is an organizational structure for agricultural development in every country. The target groups are always farmers for these organizations. The main objective has been always to raise the living standard of the farmers and to sustain the living of the farmers. Besides, this various international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are working inside the developing country and conducting their activities in the name of the various projects. These projects also publish various reports in their annual publication. But, when I talk taking the reference of the media, annual GDP and their contribution through agricultural development, it seem likes "water have been poured in the sand" which tells us that the efforts have been all useless.



The organizational structures place highly professional and experienced personnel at the upper level but they are not in close touch with the farmers. There must be professional extension agents who are going to be in direct touch with farmers. I think when any NGO, international NGO (INGO) or other governmental organization are performing any activities at the farmer level, they should be very careful about the data and the report provided to them from the lower level. They should analyze the potential of the lower staff. The monitoring activities should be focused and prioritise sectors of such organization. The other factors like the social status of the farmer, motivation level of the farmers, political status of person, economic condition of the farmers, cast discrimination, gender discrimination while providing opportunity and bureaucracy in South Asian countries (like Nepal) where the activities are conducted against the rule and system are the major factors which are affecting the development of the rural farmers. The opportunity and the services are provided but in this case the rural farmers are always dominated by the village elites.



Puruswattam Rauniyar,

Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) 

Paklihawa Campus.

Nepal

Member at Youth Endeavour for Sustainable Agriculture (YES-Agriculture) 

Phone number: +977-9847540967

Email: puruswattamrauniyar31 (at) gmail.com

Blog: Puruswattamrauniyar.blogspot.com 



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