By M.P. Collinson
Farming structures learn (FSR) will be outlined as a diagnostic technique, offering a suite of tools for researchers to appreciate farm families and their decision-making. Its functions use this realizing to extend potency within the use of human and budgetary assets for agricultural improvement, together with examine, extension and coverage formulation.This ebook offers an in depth background of FSR. whereas it contains the appliance of FSR to built state agriculture, its major concentration is on FSR in its unique position, with small-scale, resource-poor farmers in much less constructed international locations. There are a few forty contributions from approximately 50 members from 20 international locations, illustrating either the range and coherence of FSR. The e-book used to be initiated via the then foreign organization for Farming structures study and Extension (now overseas Farming structures organization) and constructed with aid from FAO. It presents a wealth of knowledge and insights for all interested by agricultural improvement.
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Some researchers from experiment stations, graduate and undergraduate students, foreign volunteers and some consultants carried out research activities in the project, producing over 100 publications in the first 6 years. Recruited as a team member, I was instructed to go to the field and ‘get the region developed’. This missionary approach reflected two key problems. First, senior managers had no clear idea of the type of project they wanted. Second, the integration of traditional researchers in the project’s field activities was not systematically organized and became a major difficulty.
Bradfield also organized training classes for field researchers from Indonesia and Ceylon in the late 1960s. Prompted by his visits and training, the Maha Illiphalama site in Ceylon became the first national training centre of the 1970s era in Asia. Bradfield should be credited for three major accomplishments: ● He proved that the yield potential of cereal and feedgrain, on an annual basis in the tropics, could equal or surpass that of temperate areas, dispelling the myth that tropical areas had low production potential.
Twenty-five tons was more commonly achieved both by Bradfield and by those of us who followed. Bradfield also organized training classes for field researchers from Indonesia and Ceylon in the late 1960s. Prompted by his visits and training, the Maha Illiphalama site in Ceylon became the first national training centre of the 1970s era in Asia. Bradfield should be credited for three major accomplishments: ● He proved that the yield potential of cereal and feedgrain, on an annual basis in the tropics, could equal or surpass that of temperate areas, dispelling the myth that tropical areas had low production potential.