Scouting Farm Innovations – Implication for Extension

Abstract

Aqua-farmers often experiment with their limited resources and available means for maximizing returns. Through years of trial and error, they had come up with locally tested and appropriate package of practices which gained popularity among the farmers in similar agro-climatic zones. These innovations often remain unnoticed and the talents of the farmers remain underutilized. Such innovations developed within resource constraints at the grass roots level have the potentials of wider scale dissemination through up-scaling. Authors underline that these innovations need to be nurtured, promoted and disseminated. They argue that the formal research system learns from the successful cases and tries to improvise the grassroot level innovations.