Institutional development, the world bank, and India's new agricultural extension programme
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in The Journal of Development Studies
- Vol. 20 (4), 303-317
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388408421919
Abstract
The new World Bank‐sponsored and funded Training and Visit system of agricultural extension represents a major attempt by the Bank to promote institutional development. The very considerable investment has in fact resulted in little change or improvement in the quality of extension. The reasons lie in failure to analyse the cause of the weakness of the previous extension systems, inherent defects of the Training and Visit system, and the way in which it has been introduced into India. These failures in turn can be explained by the interests and the politics underlying the programme.Keywords
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