Excellent article by Dr Ramoo on why it is very very difficult to build advisory services for farmers -- the sheer complexity of farming in the Indian context is probably many times that of western agricultural models. And why extension services should be seen as knowledge brokering that learns from farmers to accommodate complexities and as community facilitation that enables iteration and personalized adoption.
Adi
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Aaditeshwar Seth Microsoft Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi