Cox, Elizabeth (author / Education Research Unit, University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea) and Education Research Unit, University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: C03078
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19712
Notes:
Pages 65-80 in Georgette Wang and Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Continuity and change in communication systems: an Asian perspective. Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, New Jersey USA. 274 pages.
private sector, INTERPAKS, A common strategy for agricultural and rural development in the third world is the operation of a government-run agricultural extension service devoted to augmenting small holder productivity. Numerous evaluations of such services, however, have concluded that they are ineffective. This paper examines an alternative strategy -- the provision of agricultural extension services by capitalist enterprise. It presents a case study of the privatization of extension services in Papua New Guinea and discusses the implications. This paper concludes that private agencies have the ability to boost agricultural production, but are unlikely to achieve broader objectives of contemporary rural development.
