Under NATP, Some institutional innovations were made in each project district. These were as follows:
Establishment of decentralized district level autonomous institution named ATMA ( Agricultural technology management agency)
Establishing FAIC (Farm Information and Advisory Centre at block level).
Establishment of state level agricultural extension management training institutions named SAMETI (State Agricultural Extension management and training institutes).
Evolutions of state levels coordination and policy making body named IDWG ( Inter Department Working Group).
With an objective to address the expanding role of extension certain operational reforms processes were initiated in the project districts like strategic planning, bottom up planning, promotion of farmers' interest group and farmers. Organization, farming system approach, decentralized decision making, farmer participation research, market led production, sequential extension interventions, cost and resource sharing IT and communication support, public private partnership, techno managerial focus team approach devitalizing, ongoing schemes and farmers focused and farmers accountable extension based on the performance of the pilot study.
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