Abstract
Linkages between rice researches, extension agents and farmers in the Dominican Republic are weakly developed. Due to institutional constraints and attitudes prevalent among most officials, farmers lack ways of indicating their needs and priorities to rice researchers. As a result, recent technology developed and transferred consists of a technological package that in many cases is not, or is only partly, applicable to small farm production conditions. The case used to illustrate this predicament is that of the sowing of a second rice crop out of season. It is concluded that by starting the generation of new technology with the analysis of production conditions and resulting problems at farm level, the role of farmers in setting research policies can be increased. This should lead to the development of new technology that is better adapted to small farm production conditions.
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