Present and Future Agricultural Extension System and International Cooperation Systems for Agricultural Technologies in Ghana

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to explore the present and future agriculturalextension system and international cooperation systems for agriculturaltechnologies in Ghana. The role of agricultural extension in the next decadeshould be quite different from what it was 10 years ago or even now. Its roleas a facilitator of agricultural knowledge system would only increase as moreparticipants from private sector would get involved in extension. The publicsector extension would still continue to be the major extension provider inmost parts of the country as the private sector alone would not be able to meet even partially the varied needs of farmers. Internal reforms are thusgoing to be the greatest challenge for the Ghana Extension System.
The cooperation systems work in partnership with other stakeholder toprovide agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers. Innovations(information/knowledge) emerging from the seed industry may be seen asdynamic and systemic process which can emerge from many sources.
KAFECI’s interventions must be flexible to accommodate such changes if theneed arises in subsequent years (year 2 & 3). The framework and tools fortechnology transfer and dissemination is developed on “innovation platform”where a group of stakeholders/collaborators with diverse social and economicbackgrounds, work towards a common objective or challenge.

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