An Analysis of the Effectiveness Farmer Field School (FFS) Approach in Sustainable Rural Livelihood (SRL): The Experience of Punjab-Pakistan

Tahir Munir Butt,Muhammad Zakaria Yousuf Hussan,Qijie Gao

doi:10.4236/as.2015.610111

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Journal: Agricultural Sciences	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
Citations: 27	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Abstract

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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Poverty reduction, rural development and sustainable rural livelihood remained the major aim of various democratic and military governments in Pakistan since independence in 1947
Like other countries of the global world, NGOs in Pakistan play an important role in developing rural areas on sustained basis but there are multiple obstacles that can undermine their capacity to improve the living standards of rural poor
Farming is dominant to financial development in Pakistan, its pay 21.4% GDP, employments 45% and pays in the progress of others areas of the country

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Rural development and sustainable rural livelihood remained the major aim of various democratic and military governments in Pakistan since independence in 1947. (2015) An Analysis of the Effectiveness Farmer Field School (FFS) Approach in Sustainable Rural Livelihood (SRL): The Experience of Punjab-Pakistan. Like other countries of the global world, NGOs in Pakistan play an important role in developing rural areas on sustained basis but there are multiple obstacles that can undermine their capacity to improve the living standards of rural poor. More than half of country’s population live in rural and sub-urban areas and their livelihoods are dependent on agriculture and agro-related activities [3]

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