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This report discusses the 3rd farm radio symposium which was launched in 2009 as a means of affording space and platform for radio based extension and advisory services so that actors such as agriculture development theorists, the academia, field communication experts, extension workers, broadcasters and farmers themselves share ideas and lessons.
The agricultural value chain approach is complex. It involves farmers, seed producers, fertilizer manufacturers, policy makers, soil analysts, weather scientists, business and marketing experts, waste recyclers, transporters, and retailers. At every stage from seed to table to markets etc, men and women of all social status are involved. There is thus the need to approach the agricultural value chain holistically and minutely examine what the keynote speaker at the symposium called the pentagon of assets that include human, economic, social, physical and natural. |
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