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| Title | Innovations in Technology Dissemination Component of National Agriculture Technology Project (NATP) |
| Objectives | The major objective of this component is to accelerate the flow of technology from research, and extension to farmer; improve the dissemination of location specific and sustainability enhancing technologies, decentralize technical and decision making authority to the district level; create a more effective and financially sustainable public extension system, and step up the privatization of certain technology transfer activities. |
| Salient Features | · Pilot testing new institutional arrangements for technology dissemination at the district level and below through establishment of district Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA); · Moving towards integrated extension delivery; · Bottom up planning procedures for setting the Research-Extension agendas; · Making the technology dissemination farmer driven and farmer accountable; · Addressing gender concern in agriculture; and · Increasing use of information technology for effective dissemination. |
| Pattern of assistance | 100% grant by Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and reimbursable from 60 to 100 per cent. |
| Date of Start/Duration | 19.11.98/5 years on pilot basis upto December 2003 |
| Persons to be contacted | The Joint
Secretary Extension Division,Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi-110001 |
| Implementation Status | 1. The Project, which was initiated during November 1998, had been launched in all the 24 districts, ATMAs have been registered in 23 districts and initial process is on in the six fourth phase districts. The Ist Phase ATMAs have been fully involved in addressing the major project interventions and results have begun to emerge. The experiences in the Ist phase districts have been guiding source for the subsequent ATMA districts. 2. The State level Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institutes (SAMETIs) have already been registered in 5 project States and few of them have begun to extend the needed HRD support to the project districts. 3. Reports of the World Bank Supervision Missions reveal that good progress has been made in implementing the project particularly with respect to project management, disbursements, procurement and implementation of field programmes. More importantly the project is now showing indications of making progress in meeting its development objectives. |
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