Organization of farmers demands: Farmers in their wealth & gender categories together identify priority agriculture felt needs & decide on action to undertake.
Organizing service providers’ response to farmers’ needs: identifying and engaging service providers that would respond to farmers’ needs.
Stakeholders Coordination, collaboration and co-location: Service providers can support farmers’ needs as an individual organization or in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Funding acquisition: district council will have to find ways of financing agricultural extension services from a diverse source of funds existing in the districts
District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS) is a decentralized extension system that seeks to enhance collaboration and coordination of service providers in agricultural extension and advisory services in order to promote harmonization and integration in service provision
The DAESS operationalizes implementation of the Agricultural Extension Policy which advocates for pluralistic and demand driven extension services
It promotes quality interaction of actors for collective visioning, planning and implementation of interventions.
DAESS empowers farmers and other clientele to access high quality extension services from those that are best able to provide them
DAESS is a mechanism for enabling farmers to identify and organize their agricultural felt needs for appropriate action by relevant stakeholders
Major agricultural stakeholders in the district
District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS) is a decentralized extension system that seeks to enhance collaboration and coordination of service providers in agricultural extension and advisory services in order to promote harmonization and integration in service provision
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