Farmers' experiences and perceptions of the NAADS Agricultural Extension System/Program in Kabale district, Uganda

Musemakweri, John

doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-17145

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“…According to [14], the variety of developmental phases in Ugandan agricultural extension, including ( According to [15], extension is overseen by the Department of Natural Resources (Environmental, Land and Forestry) and the Production Department at the local district level (Agriculture, Commercial, Entomology and Veterinary).…”

Section: Brief Description Of Agriculture Extension and Advisory Serv...mentioning

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Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Turyasingura¹,

Chavula²

2022

IJFSA

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Agriculture is anticipated to remain the economy's backbone for the foreseeable future, with agricultural operations employing a large majority of Uganda's work force 72%. The aim of this review was to assess the agriculture extension and advisory services; brief description of agriculture extension and advisory service system in Uganda focusing on typology providers, dominant models used and target groups; providing examples of agriculture extension and advisory services related to climate smart agriculture with specific adaptation and mitigation and identifying and discussing the innovative approach and methods being used by different service providers in climate smart related extension. Farmers' groups, government organizations, non-governmental organizations, commercial organizations, and universities are among the typologies employed in Uganda's agriculture extension service. The agriculture extension and advisory services related to climate smart agriculture were integrated soil fertility management, crop rotation, cover crops and green manure, rotational grazing, seasonally adapted planting time and agroforestry systems. The innovative approach and methods being used by different service providers in climate smart related extension included extension methods for transfer of climate knowledge, training and visit extension and unified extension approaches, climate awareness mass media campaigns, ICT supported farmers in adaptation and mitigation, farmer field school and climate-smart villages. It was concluded that climate-smart extension approaches need to be considered as part of a broader set of adaptation measures and policies for agricultural systems at a range of scales through ICT integration. The study recommended for a strategic plan for women engagement in agriculture extension services by the Ugandan government.

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Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Turyasingura¹,

Chavula²

2022

IJFSA

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“…This has sameness to the traditional National Agriculture Advisory Services (NAADS) farmer field schools recruitment process; where participants with strong social connections or belonged to preexisting community groups [7], [35], [36] had chance to participate. NAADS based on farmer groups and farmer field schools aims at high level of farmer participation in technology generation and dissemination [7], [36]- [43]. Likewise, VEAs are from within their group membership without the interference of community leaders and politicians.…”

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Revolutionalizing Agriculture Extension Delivery Through Mobile Telephony: The Experience of Village Enterprise Agent Model in Greater Masaka Area, Uganda

Mugabi

State

Omona

et al. 2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Agriculture continues to be the thrust of Uganda's economy, directly employing majority of the population. However, there is deficiency in extension service delivery with few trained extension workers to support smallholder farmers. As a result, there have been strides to revolutionize traditional agriculture extension delivery through Village Enterprise Agent Model using mobile telephony digital extension platform. A cross sectional study design was adopted using ethnographic interviews and survey questionnaire with 70 VEAs. The diffusion of innovation theory and technology acceptance model are applied to examine the VEAs' experience in using mobile telephony as a tool to deliver agriculture extension services. Explicitly, the study investigated the capacity of VEAs to deliver extension services, how they do it, the kind of information delivered and the challenges to this model. Study findings revealed that social networks of farmer groups are key diffusion channels through which VEAs reach smallholder farmers. Adopters' characteristics such as VEAs' education background, community leadership skills and prior experience in using mobile telephony has a strong bearing on the ease of disseminating digital messages to farmers. In addition, the Kulima mobile telephony digital platform has supported real time dissemination of agricultural information. This is integrated with pragmatic demonstration gardens, farmer exchange visits, home visits to enhance farmers' peer learning. The sustainability of VEA model, with no clear incentive system, amidst complicated agriculture terminologies used in digital messages are some of the challenges to the model. Thus, future extension delivery using community agents and information communication technology should be cognizant of the social cultural dynamics, social nodes and ties of farmers and translate mobile digital messages into indigenous languages.

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“…Agriculture had high political priority and state‐owned marketing boards were in force for cash crops, as were price controls, government farms and state‐controlled promotion of livestock. Continuing from the colonial period, extension services were driven from the top by a department within the Ministry of Agriculture, its focus being the education of, and transfer of technology to, selected, so‐called progressive farmers, who were also given farm inputs (Musemakweri, ; Semana, ).…”

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Send for the cavalry: Political incentives in the provision of agricultural advisory services

Kjær

Joughin²

2018

Development Policy Review

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This article examines how political incentives shape the implementation of agricultural advisory service reforms. Using the Uganda experience as a typical case we find that elections incentivized the Government to add a subsidized input component to the existing service. Growing pressures from local politicians, the Ministry of Agriculture and increasingly disgruntled army factions then constituted a strong and interlocking set of further incentives to revert to a recentralized, top‐down model dominated by the new, subsidized input component. Our findings point to how well designed implementation processes can be disrupted by the changing incentive structure, an insight which calls for more patient and much more pragmatic approaches to adopting “trial and error” models rather than more ambitious, but perhaps unrealistic, options.

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Farmers' experiences and perceptions of the NAADS Agricultural Extension System/Program in Kabale district, Uganda

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Revolutionalizing Agriculture Extension Delivery Through Mobile Telephony: The Experience of Village Enterprise Agent Model in Greater Masaka Area, Uganda

Send for the cavalry: Political incentives in the provision of agricultural advisory services

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