Abstract
About 60% population resides in rural areas depending on agriculture
for getting its livelihoods. As it is the main source of foreign
exchange earnings, it accounts for 21 percent of the GDP and absorbs 45%
of total labour force. It is direst need to train farmers about farm management and new technologies. This requisite is executed through
extension services. It builds the capacity of farming community for
advanced agricultural practices. It is unique service in the sense that
it provides access to small farmers and rural poor living far from the
urban areas in addition to technology transfer. Present study was conducted in
district Faisalabad. The data reveal that poor assessment psychological
assessment of local talent and observation of resource poor farmer by
the trainer are the most deleterious elements affecting the training
meetings while farmer less interest and illiteracy are the trainee based
serious factors causing training meetings less fruitful. The focus
group
discussions concluded that reveal that normally the EFS select the
resource rich person like feudal, lord or Choudhary as a focal person.The agriculture department selects a biased focal farmer who is not
venerable among the entire village farming community. The biased
hub farmer does not call all the farmers for farmers meeting. The
relaying of trainees on their previous knowledge reduces the farmer’s
interest
in training meetings. It is indirectly defying of sole purpose of this
maneuver. Therefore, it is suggested that agriculture sector should
select
the focal persons on merit or unbiased bases. The farmer should also
join the meeting with perceptive minds so that dream of agricultural
prosperity becomes true.
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