Benefits of the ‘Agriculture
Demonstration Plots’ in Africa
n As part of the challenges in introducing
new technologies to small scale farmers in Africa, I have found three main issues:
1.
Lack
of farmer funds and conservative
notions that make them hesitate
to accept new technologies, and
by doing that, risk the known methods
2.
As
many of them don’t know how to read, written documents that introduce the new
methods are not effective; simply, they
can’t use them
n As a result, we have started establishing
demonstration plots by ourselves or in collaboration with our development
partners.
n In this aspect, we are now able to :
·
Showcase
success stories
·
Involve
the community as they maintain the plots
·
Encourage
the communities to copy and paste the new technologies
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