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The Present Situation of Extension Service Organization in Turkey

Güney O., Oztürk D., Biçer O.

The Turkish national extension service is mainly organized under the control and responsibility of the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA). The MARA is organized in provinces and counties as Provincial Directorate of Agriculture (PDA) and County Directorate of Agriculture (CDA). Extension services are run by the Farmers Training and Extension Division of PDA and CDA. The Village Group Technicians (VGT) are an important unit in extension services that works under the CDA. The main constraints in Agricultural Extension Service in Turkey are: inadequate qualified extension staff, lack of coordination between general directorates of MARA, weak linkages among researchers, extension staff and farmers and their organizations, limited budget allocated for extension service, lack of farmers participation in the activities, etc. Sheep and goat farmers are the most difficult group to work with because there are not production records. Therefore, they are the least influenced by extension service activities in Turkey.

Mots-clés    

CAPRIN, ELEVAGE, OVIN, TURQUIE, VULGARISATION

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Güney O., Oztürk D., Biçer O. The Present Situation of Extension Service Organization in Turkey. In : Rubino R. (ed.), Morand-Fehr P. (ed.). Systems of sheep and goat production: Organization of husbandry and role of extension services . Zaragoza : CIHEAM, 1999. p. 63-67. (Options Méditerranéennes : Série A. Séminaires Méditerranéens; n. 38). Symposium of the Sub-Network on Production Systems of the FAO-CIHEAM Inter-Regional Cooperative Research and Development Network on Sheep and Goats, 25-27 Oct 1997, Bella (Italy). http://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a38/99600135.pdf