Farmer's participation in village development activities: the role of agricultural and livestock development institutions in Tanzania
Wambura, R.M.;|Rutatora, D.F. / 1999

Increasingly, it is recognized that participatory extension generates widespread and sustainable results. “Participation in extension focuses on joint decision making with regard to problem analysis, solution planning, activities implementation an devaluation of results”. The paper is based on a study done in 1998 on “Strengthening Farmer’ Participation in Village Development Activities: The role of Agriculture and Livestock Development Institutions (MATIs/LITLs) in Tanzania”. Data were obtained through interviews with MATL/LITI tutors, field extension agents and randomly selected farmers and notes fro selected discussions with key informants, and observations. The findings indicated that most institutes had farmers training sections despite the fact that there were difficulties in farmer training: and that there was a possibility of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) to establish formal collaborative links with Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MAC) on extension services using MATLs and LITIs