Second Agricultural Extension and Applied Research Project

AGRIN was involved in the execution of this project under contract with AFC firm of Germany for the overall coordination of 78 staff months consultancy services, and planning, arrangement and administration of the overseas MSc training programs for research and extension staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), as well as study tours and short term overseas training
The project was a follow-up of the First Agricultural Extension and Applied Research Project and covered 21 provinces of Turkey. The main objectives of the project was to improve the provincial extension systems, develop strong linkages between extension, research and farmers through diagnostic surveys, to initiate a pilot program to train women engaged in agriculture and to provide local and overseas training for the project staff.
Major TA inputs provided for the project and coordinated by AGRIN were; diagnostic survey, training programs supervision, skill-gap analysis and extension methodology, pilot women farmer’s extension, M&E, topical workshops, and rural sociology.
Refik Çölaşan of AGRIN, was contracted by AFC as a Training Programme Supervision Expert, for a duration of 27 months.

Overseas training programmes managed by AGRIN in 1993:
In 1993, 17 training courses for 189 researchers and extension officers were finalized in The Netherlands, UK and USA. MSc degree programs were initiated in UK and USA for nine persons. The topics of these programs are given below.

Short-term and/or Study Tours
•Diagnosis & Planning
•Applied Plant Breeding
•Seed Production and Technology
•Extension Management I, II, III and IV
•Post Harvest Technologies (Grain Crops, Fruit and Vegetable, and Root Crops)
•Glass-house Crop Production
•Monitoring and Evaluation
•Training of Trainers
•Agricultural Machinery Management
•Extension Methods for Women Farmers
•Rural Extension
•Range Management

MSc. Programmes
•Agricultural Extension
•Agricultural Economics; Farming Systems
•Food Quality Control
•Agricultural Mechanisation
•Management For Agricultural Development
•Information Technology
•Tissue Culture
•Integrated Weed Management

Overseas training programmes managed by AGRIN in 1994:
In 1994, 7 training courses for 99 researchers and extension officers were finalized in The Netherlands and USA, and MSc degree programs were initiated for 20 persons in the UK and USA. The topics of these programs are given below.

Short-term and/or Study Tours
•    Extension Management
•    Rural Extension
•    Seed Technology
•    Project Planning
•    Training of Trainers
•    Aquaculture

MSc. Programmes
•    Weed Control
•    Agricultural Marketing
•    Agricultural Economics
•    Food Technology
•    Plant Physiology
•    Microbiology
•    Agricultural Management
•    Glasshouse
•    Live stock Management Economics
•    Plant Disease
•    Agricultural Mechanisation
•    Hydrology
•    Fish Disease
•    Animal Breeding
•    Irrigation & Hydrology

In-country training  programmes arranged in 1993 and 1994:
(AGRIN has assisted overall coordination).
•    Topical Workshops
•    Skill-Gap / Extension Methodology
•    Diagnostic Survey
•    Monitoring & Evaluation
•    Pilot Women Farmers' Extension
•    Rural Sociology