Partnership: a new way to enhance development process
By: Ojha, Gana Pati.
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Description: p.64-78.Subject(s): Partnership | Agricultural development
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Administration and Management ReviewSummary: The development process can be enhanced when the state (GO), non-government (NGO), and private (PO) sectors form partnerships. This was a conclusion reached as a result of a 21-month study in east Chitwan, Nepal while comparing seven technology dissemination patterns - three individual and four partnership patterns. Guided by the farmers' needs, availability of technology and interests of agencies, technologies related to farmer-preferred rice varieties, hybrid maize and sunflower were selected for the extension. To compare the effectiveness of dissemination patterns, the research was conducted with a quasi-experiment design and information collected using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Information from 123 farmers indicated that partnerships are more effective than individual efforts in extending agricultural technologies to farmers. The effectiveness of partnership is found to be technology and farm size-specific. Adoption of imported high cost technologies took place under GO+PO partnership. With GO+NGO partnership, low cost and locally available technologies were adopted. Similarly, partnerships were specific to farmer circumstances. GO+PO partnership, low cost and locally available technologies were adopted. Similarly, partnerships were specific to farmer circumstances. GO+PO partnership was most effective in reaching large landholders while GO+NGO partnership favoured reaching small farmers. - Reproduced
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The development process can be enhanced when the state (GO), non-government (NGO), and private (PO) sectors form partnerships. This was a conclusion reached as a result of a 21-month study in east Chitwan, Nepal while comparing seven technology dissemination patterns - three individual and four partnership patterns. Guided by the farmers' needs, availability of technology and interests of agencies, technologies related to farmer-preferred rice varieties, hybrid maize and sunflower were selected for the extension. To compare the effectiveness of dissemination patterns, the research was conducted with a quasi-experiment design and information collected using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Information from 123 farmers indicated that partnerships are more effective than individual efforts in extending agricultural technologies to farmers. The effectiveness of partnership is found to be technology and farm size-specific. Adoption of imported high cost technologies took place under GO+PO partnership. With GO+NGO partnership, low cost and locally available technologies were adopted. Similarly, partnerships were specific to farmer circumstances. GO+PO partnership, low cost and locally available technologies were adopted. Similarly, partnerships were specific to farmer circumstances. GO+PO partnership was most effective in reaching large landholders while GO+NGO partnership favoured reaching small farmers. - Reproduced
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