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Research–Extension–Farmer Linkages

Head of
Research–Extension–Farmer Linkages Department

Fasil Kelemework

PO Box 2003,
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Telephone:
251 1 454430
251 1 462633 Extn. 276
Fax: 251 1 461294
E-mail: res_ext@earo.org.et

Objectives

ensure that researchers and research programs generate appropriate technologies by including farmers priority needs and constraints in their work plan or research agenda.
ensure effective technology dissemination.
ensure timely multiplication and distribution of generated agricultural technologies
create necessary conditions for researcher, extension staff and farmers to participate in identifying researchable problems, generating technologies and verifying the adaptability, profitability and sustainability of the technologies under farmers' circumstances.
ensure that research programs and researchers include farmers' priority needs or constraints in their work plan or research agenda.
update technological database regularly, formulating location specific extension recommendations, and enhancing the transfer, adoption of the technologies, and monitoring their impacts.
integrate stakeholders in different linkage strategies towards a common goal.

The agricultural extension and technology transfer sector has designed two programs and eight projects. These are the following:

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