Module 8 - Session 1 - Research-extension linkage

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FORMAT	Plenary participatory lecture
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OBJECTIVES At the end of this session, participants should be able to: 1. Identify and appreciate the need for institute-client liaison 2. Appreciate the crucial importance of the research-extension linkage 3. Understand different modes of achieving research-extension liaison.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Exhibit 1	Client liaison
Exhibit 2	Concerns
Exhibit 3	Technology flow processes
Exhibit 4	Disruption of a continuum
Exhibit 5	Organization of agriculture, and the need for research-extension linkage
Exhibit 6	Research-extension linkage
Exhibit 7	Alternative research and extension models
Exhibit 8	Top-down technology transfer model
Exhibit 9	The feedback technology transfer model
Exhibit 10	The modified feedback technology transfer model
Exhibit 11	'Farmer-back-to-farmer' technology generation and transfer
Exhibit 12	Increasingly integrated research-extension-producer interactions
Exhibit 13	Farming systems research
Exhibit 14	On-farm, client-oriented research
Exhibit 15	Fundamentals of the Training and Visit (T&V) system
Exhibit 16	AKIS: An agricultural research and extension linkage system
Exhibit 17	ATMS: the agricultural technology management system

HAND-OUTS 1. Institute-client liaison. 2. Importance of agricultural extension in the agricultural development process. 3. Major extension trends, approaches, programmes and methods. 4. Role of agricultural research institutes in transfer of improved technology. 5. Generation of improved technology and its on-farm validation. 6. Farming systems research.

REQUIRED READING Reading note: Research-extension linkage

BACKGROUND READING None.

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT AND AIDS Overhead projector and chalkboard