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Title of Thesis
An
Analysis of Paradigm Shift from Public Extension to Public Private
Partnership Extension System in NWFP, Pakistan |
Author(s)
Ikram Ul Haq |
| Institute/University/Department Details
Department of
Agricultural Extension / University of Agriculture Faisalabad |
Session
2009 |
Subject
Agricultural Extension |
Number of Pages
262 |
Keywords (Extracted from title, table of contents and abstract of thesis)
Paradigm Shift,Public
Extension, Public Private Partnership Extension System, NWFP |
Abstract
A general weakness of agricultural extension is the low adoption of
new agricultural technologies by poor and small farmers. As the
present public extension systems in many countries have not been
able to address the issues and concerns of small and poor farmers, a
search for new extension models that are more effective, efficient,
and responsive to different categories of farmers is essential. This
essential model might be the public-private partnership. Govt. of
NWFP has initiated a new public private partnership extension
program in the province during the year 2000. This emerging system
is locally called as Farm Services Centers (FSCs) where inputs
delivery, market facilitation, exchange of experiences and knowledge
are the main activities of the system. However, there is still
information gap about whether this public-private partnership will
be beneficial in developing and extending agricultural technologies.
This study intends to fill up that information gap by analyzing this
public-private partnership by measuring its strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. For this purpose, out of 24 districts,
two districts Swabi and Lakki Marwat were selected randomly as study
area from where 217 and 274 farmer respondents were selected at
random with the help of table given by Fitzggibbon et al.
(1987), making a total of 491 respondents. All the Agricultural
officers and district officers of the selected districts were also
selected as respondents of the study. Quantitative data were
colleted by survey method, while qualitative data by focus group
discussion with the help of open-ended interview schedule. The
results showed that the most important strength of FSC in the eyes
of farmer respondents was “managed by farmers’ bodies” as ranked 1st
with mean 4.05 and SD 1.29. The weaknesses of both extension systems
as diagnosed by the farmer respondents were “no sale arrangements
for surplus produce”. In case of opportunities, FSC was bottom up
approach and “based on partnership between farmers and the
government” ranked 1st with mean 4.12 and SD 1.29. The
threats for FSC as reported by farmers respondents were “no trend to
develop farmers’ organizations among farming community”, “pressure
exerted by political influential authorities” and “low preference of
agriculture by youth as full time occupation”. According to EFS
respondents the most important strength for FSC was “managed by
farmers’ bodies” which ranked 1st with means 4.82 and SD
0.40. The major weaknesses of FSC as diagnosed by EFS respondents
were “no female staff”, “no sale arrangements for surplus produce”,
and “lack of marketing facilities” ranked 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd .The statements “offers low cost of learning”,
“based on partnership between farmers and the government”, “provides
forum for farmers to get together”, “proved extension workers to be
good change agents”, and “encourages farmers participation” were the
top five opportunities of the system. Out of all threats, EFS ranked
the statement “no trend to develop farmers’ organizations among
farming community” as 1st threat with mean 3.82 and SD
1.40. On the basis of conclusions it was recommended that Government
should provide the opportunities of availing projects of different
funding agencies to increase the share of private sector on FSC
basis. Government should formulate law to increase the participation
of women in the present programs, as they are main component of
agriculture. Department should provide more facilities like pay and
other allowances to the staff indulged in FSC to increase their
working efficiency. As recommended by respondents separate meeting
places should be provided for female farmers, so as they effectively
get trainings and efficiently utilized the acquired knowledge in
relevant fields.
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CONTENTS |
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Agricultural Extension
1.2 Agricultural Extension
Programmes of Pakistan
1.3 Agricultural Extension in NWFP,
Past and Present
1.4 Public Extension Services in
Pakistan
1.5 Paradigm Shift
1.6 Partnership
1.7 Public-Private Partnership
1.8 Farm Services Centers (FSCs)
1.9 Need for the Study
1.10 Objectives
1.11 Limitations
1.12 Assumptions
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REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Bibliographical information
2.2 Public Extension in the World
2.3 Public and Private sector
Extension
2.4 Constraints of Public Sector
Extension
2.5 Criticism on Public Sector
Extension
2.6 Private extension in the world
2.7 Private extension in Asia
2.8 Private extension in Pakistan
2.9 Approaches used in Agricultural
Extension
2.10 Public-Private Partnership in
Extension
2.11 Synthesis of Review of
Literature |
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281 KB |
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MATERIALS
AND METHODS
3.1 Pakistan: The country of study
3.2 NWFP: Universe of the study
3.2 The selection of study area
3.4 Sampling procedure and sampling
size
3.5 Selection of sample
3.6 Preparation of Interview
schedule
3.7 Reliability
3.8 Validity
3.9 Translation
3.10 Data Collection
3.11 Analysis of data
3.12 Focus Group Discussion
3.13 Problems faced during data
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RESULTS
AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Farmer respondents
4.2 Extension field staff respondents
4.3 Focus group discussion
4.4 SWOT Matrix |
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SUMMARY,
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusions
5.3 Recommendations
5.4 Strategy for an improved extension model |
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LITERATURE CITED |
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APPENDICES |
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