Lesson 23:Community Development and National Extension Era
National Extension Service (N.E.s.)
A year later the community development programme was supported and extended as National Extension Service (NES) from October 2, 1953. It was stated that the NES was introduced as an agency and CD as the method to bring about this transformation with distinctively two broad divisions
Community organization Initially, it was started in 7 districts of 7 provinces where all the facilities were available.
The agricultural production team of the Ford Foundation (1959) in the report gave more important pointers and urged the selection of certain crops for certain responsive areas for more intensive efforts and top priority were given to food production. The team further recommended that agricultural extension porgramme should be based on local conditions, village production plans and village potentials and additional staff may also be provided for intensive educational efforts.
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