Terry, keep on the good work. It was nice sharing ideas with you guys. Slowly but surely, we will get there. Let research work speak for itself to farmers not to force farmers to adopt what you have experimented somewhere else. We (farmers) learn better when participating. Technologies are there, but they should 'speak' for themselves to farmers once laid down. As researchers we should desist from taking farmers as students when it comes to adoption of new and promising technologies or innovations. Farmers are also researchers on their own right. If a technology is really good you don't need to tell farmers to go for it, they will adopt it themselves upon witnessing for themselves the good results that the technology would have done e.g increased yields or income, etc.
Terry,
Terry, keep on the good work. It was nice sharing ideas with you guys. Slowly but surely, we will get there. Let research work speak for itself to farmers not to force farmers to adopt what you have experimented somewhere else. We (farmers) learn better when participating. Technologies are there, but they should 'speak' for themselves to farmers once laid down. As researchers we should desist from taking farmers as students when it comes to adoption of new and promising technologies or innovations. Farmers are also researchers on their own right. If a technology is really good you don't need to tell farmers to go for it, they will adopt it themselves upon witnessing for themselves the good results that the technology would have done e.g increased yields or income, etc.