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An Analysis of the Effectiveness Farmer Field School (FFS) Approach in Sustainable Rural Livelihood (SRL): The Experience of Punjab-Pakistan
College of Humanities and Development (COHD), China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
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College of Humanities and Development (COHD), China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
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Agriculture Officer, Government of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
1 College of Humanities and Development (COHD), China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
2 College of Humanities and Development (COHD), China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
3 Agriculture Officer, Government of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Farmer Field School (FFS) is a capacity building approach in the Agricultural Extension Approaches (AEA), which provides opportunities to farmers of improving various skills through practicing various techniques by themselves. The review paper is in 2015 to analyze FFS as a strategy for benefiting resource poor farmers from agricultural technologies in Pakistan. Keeping in view the importance of exchange of information, FFS approach is the only approach to agriculture extension in which communication is an integral component because after trained by FFS program and to be expected to become a local agent to deliver the information and techniques of agriculture to other farmers for enhancing the agricultural production, income and improved livelihood. It can be concluded from the study that FFS proves highly beneficial to the farming community due to its capacity building functions.
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