What are the obstacles to the transfer of new agricultural technologies from the point of view of the Agricultural Extension Organization?
Agricultural extension is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education.
In many developing countries, the "political will" is the greatest obstacle. Meagre spendings on agr infrastructure, technology transfer, facilitations & development, social Security to the agrarians, etc. are not on the priority; making it difficult to adopt new technology.
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I think corruption is another important barrier in transferring successful agricultural technologies, along with political will mentioned by Mahendra Umare.
Misuse of the funds (by corrupted officials) that were received for agricultural modernization, simply does not allow farms to progress (e.g. Problem in EU regarding misuse of CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) subsidies by governments). Besides, corruption harms agricultural extension programs to achieve its conventional goals including farm productivity through the accessibility/spread of the information regarding new technologies for farmers, enhancing the level of education in rural areas (especially the development of managerial skills in farming), etc.
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Article The Role of Agricultural Extension in the Transfer and Adopt...
There were various reason but Lack of intrest in topic and majority of people were not readily accepted change ,in short laggard are the main reason and and definetely corruption is also major problem.
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