TY  - JA
AU  - Khan,A.
AU  - Ahmad,I.
AU  - Sofranko,A.J.
TI  - An alternative institutional path for getting "extension" to farmers
PY  - 1987///
KW  - Extension activities
KW  - Information flow
KW  - Innovation adoption
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Technology transfer
KW  - Training programmes
N2  - The paper considers the possibility of using local councillors (LCs), popularly elected government representatives in rural villages, to carry out some of the functions associated with the formal agricultural extension system. The results of a pilot survey of 100 farmers in two Union Council areas in BannuDistrict, Pakistan Northwest Frontier, are examined. LCs in the area studied areperforming extension-type functions but their effectiveness is limited because they have little knowledge of recent research and practices; they tend not to have formal contact with extension; and they have no formal training in extension techniques. Given the
T2  - Rural Sociology
ER  -