Acquah, B.(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, NaN, 2003)
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Abstract:
The need for productivity increases in the agricultural sector in Botswana in order to help improve farm incomes, especially incomes of resource-poor farmers, has been an important concern in the poverty alleviation effort in the country. Appropriate technology
generation and dissemination in both the crop and livestock production sub-sectors hold the promise of improving agricultural productivity. This paper discusses how the farming systems approach (FSA) can contribute to the successful generation and dissemination
of appropriate agricultural technologies. The paper concludes that prerequisites
for success in the technology generation and dissemination process include
the political will to do so, adequate funding, the provision of relevant technical personnel and the willing participation offarmers in the technology generation process.