Sustainability of Participatory Technology Development & Transfer Approach for Sugarcane Farmers
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https://doi.org/10.26725/JEE.2017.4.29.5988-5994Keywords:
Participatory Technology Development and Transfer, Transect Walk, Sugarcane, Constraints, Tamil NaduAbstract
Participatory Technology Development and Transfer (PTD & T) is an effective action research approach. It empowers all the stakeholders, especially the farmers who are many a time invisible. A PTD project was implemented for Sugarcane development in Tamil Nadu and the outcome was a mixture of success and failures. The paper presents the findings and asserts that the approach is sustainable.References
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