Scaling up of technical backstopping in banana cultivation
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Multi-stakeholder, Participation, Innovation, Procedures, Processes and Institutions.Abstract
Samagra project on banana cultivation is one of the few successful agricultural development initiatives from the state of Kerala, India. The multiple stakeholder partnership project was implemented in Thiruvananthapuram district with the aim to enhance banana productivity through promotion of innovations in technical backstopping. The study attempted to measure innovations in technical backstopping in terms of perception about the innovative procedures, processes and institutions. The results indicated that majority of the beneficiary respondents perceived the procedures, processes and institutions adopted in the ‘Samagra’ to be excellent in terms of technology backstopping.align='justify'>Downloads
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