- Networking of institutions
Networking is establishment of functional linkages between functional units to satisfy the needs of people. The objectives and target group of these units will be more or less similar, with a difference in operational strategies. The model of networking strategy for transfer technology is indicated below.
- Technology dissemination centers
Institutions like DAA TTCs, KVKs and Bala Mahila Pragathi Pranganams through different programmes transfer the tee Lesser means - assets, skills, employment options, education, legal resources, financial resources technologies to women and adolescent girls. The model is indicated below
- Market led extension
To provide adequate market access to the farmer for their produce a new strategy has been evolved. A market demand will be created for the product or services by an organization. This organization initially studies the needs of the farmers or women and translates them into products or services. The technology involved in formulation of these products and services is transferred to the farmers or women and see that they are produced. A buy-back linkage is established, either by the organization itself or by any other suitable market.
- Agribusiness centers
An agribusiness centre is a self employment programme through which the individual promotes needed products, resources and services to the farmers or any other clientele group at their door step on payment basis. The mode of transfer of technology in this strategy is indicated below.
Training programmes, based on needs identified by and for women, should be organised at the doorstep of Agrarian women may include:
- Technology transfer to women in all aspects of farming and farm management. Grassroot women farmers must be trained in various fields, including terrace farming technologies, animal husbandry, forestry, sustainable natural resource management and leadership development.
- Training in pre and post harvest technologies storage, preservation, packaging, processing and marketing.
- Skills of resource management including organic farming.
- Training programmes should be organised by Agricultural Universities that provide admission regardless of age, sex and educational qualifications.
- Improving women’s access to agricultural technology through technical training and by designing women friendly agricultural technology.
- Awareness generation on legal rights and land ownership titles.
- Training in nursery raising, horticulture crop cultivation, new techniques in coarse cereals production, seed support programme, storage techniques, manure preparation etc to poorly skilled, low paid and prone to exploitation.
- Audio-visual media, radio, television, mobile video vans.
- Print media- leaflets, brochures, illustrated booklets, wall charts and posters.
- Demonstration plots in rural areas.
- Rural fairs and corner meetings
- Farmer education by field staff of NGOs and seed companies.
- Technology transfer by public sector organization, especially extension department.
- Development of software or ‘nutri guide’ based on regional foods for food and therapeutic purposes.
- Establishment of nutrition garden in rural household or cost-effective solution for micro nutrient mal nutrition and nutritional upliftment of rural population.
- Development of technology kits and media mixes for promoting knowledge and skills empowerment on various topics related to farming and household practices.
- Development of software on natural dyes sources for use by weavers and women entrepreneurs.
- Providing supplementary feeding to infants and toddlers in farm crèche for health security.
- Conducting field trials on drudgery reduction technologies for assessing ergonomic based physiological cost and work efficiency of rural women.
- Congenial climate is to be created in home and in villages for effective use of extension services for women farmers.
- Male farmers and the head of the families should be educated to sharing and handling resources with their farm women.
- The technology needs of farm women are to be assessed for the effective services.
- The training of women farmers should be the pre-requisite for better utilization of extension services.
- Enhancing and strengthening the role of women.
- Utmost care should be taken to ensure the highest possible participation from the poorest families.
- Training should be through demonstration, practical labs and field trips.
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