Faculty of Resource management and Economics
                  Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension

Rationale of the Program
Given a predominant agrarian society, ADLI focuses on the development of the rural sector. The adoption of ADLI presupposes productivity enhancement of smallholder agriculture followed by industrialization through utilization of domestic raw materials via adopting labor intensive technology. This obviously calls for innovative education for rural development. However, agricultural extension services within the ministry of agriculture as well as other agricultural related governmental and nongovernmental organizations are by large covered by Para-professionals who are graduates of other agricultural fields. Most if not all of, rural development and agricultural extension workers are diploma holders with long field experience and /or short term training. Moreover, in view of the ratio of the total number of extension personnel on duty to number of farmers in the country, much needs to be done to produce rural development and agricultural extension personnel. It is under this premises that the current curriculum has been proposed.Read More