Multistakeholder partnership = Investment of agricultural by 4P(public private people partnership) model, People means farmers/growers, Must needed agricultural knowledge background professionaL
Criteria of Project Farmers’ Selection
· Farmers should be progressive and educated
· Farmers should be innovative
· Farmers should be cooperative
· Farmers should be participatory
· Farmers should be hard working
· Farmers should have leadership capacity
Farmers are not so aware about the rapid change in agricultural technology and information. For them to keep track of these rapid changes, extension will play a big role in terms of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) development. To strengthen the capacity of small-scale farmers, it is necessary to integrate the following factors: agricultural credit, production inputs and organized marketing strategies through a comprehensive agricultural extension programme.
The technology disseminated must meet the needs of farmers and has to be modified and adapted to the farmers’ condition in each locality to make it more appropriate and relevant. KAP development must build upon farmers as the learning base for enhanced capacity building. Farmers need to participate in the development of work plan to adopt a new innovation.
Durlave Roy