A study of the Sokoine University extension project and its impact on extension work at the village level in Tanzania.
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1991
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University College Dublin
Abstract
The study examined the impact of the Sokoine Extension Project (SEP) on the farmers' and extension workers' (Bwana Shambas) activities and programmes in solving the food and cash crop production problems in the villages of Morogoro region, Tanzania. It also investigated the effectiveness of the SEP in developing the capacity of the extension system and in accelerating agricultural developments at village level in the study area. In doing so, the main emphasis
was to assess the extension workers' and farmers' performance in the SEP activities and programmes and in particular the farmers' changes in food production, food sufficiency and cash crop production as a result of the extension intervention.
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Extension workers', Cash crop production problems, Food production, Sokoine University extension project, Morogoro, Tanzania