Sentences with phrase «extension officers»
"Extension officers" refers to professionals who provide education, advice, and support to help individuals or communities improve their knowledge and skills in particular fields such as agriculture, health, or entrepreneurship. Full definition
The project also built knowledge and capacity among government extension officers and private sector technicians.
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With a looming shortage of agricultural extension officers in Ghana in the next two to three years, largely as a result of the then Mahama administration's decision not to employ any of the 3,200 graduates from the country's 5 Colleges of Agriculture between 2011 and 2015, President Akufo - Addo told the gathering that that his government has, in the last 3 months, employed 1,200 of these graduates.
This was possible because Agric Extension Officers did their work so well to help achieve the policy targets.
In retrospect, it would have been better to find the local extension officer who was known to the village.»
Additionally, with a looming shortage of agricultural extension officers in the next two to three years, and largely as a result of the previous NDC administration's decision not to employ any of the 3,200 graduates from the country's five Colleges of Agriculture between 2011 and 2015, Mr Akufo - Addo revealed that his government has, in the last three months, employed 1,200 of these graduates.
He said the programme had come to stay and urged the Assembly members to inform farmers in their various electoral areas about the ongoing registration exercise by extension officers of the Department.
Needless to say, the project was not finished in six months, and in some areas it took three years before the local extension officers McGill's team were training understood the reasons behind using the new methodology, and the improvements it could mean for their dairy industry.
He assured further that «in 2018, we will employ 2,000 more extension officers, with the solemn pledge of employing more graduates from our Colleges of Agriculture in the subsequent years.»
As a nation, we can not abandon our first love because those few extension officers failed to do their work properly.»
In order to Knowledge the country's debt to cocoa, the Mahama - administration took various steps, all aimed at promoting the vital sector of the economy including renovation and rehabilitation of all the research centres, free fertilizer distribution, deplored extension officers and research officers across all the cocoa growing areas.
He said extension officers would also convey challenges faced in the farm by the farmers to research institutes to find appropriate solutions.
«Free SHS; One dam for all Villages in the North; pay teacher training allowance, free maternal care, radically reduce water bill, radically reduce light bill, one district one factory, pay all DKM customers, reduce corporate tax 20 %, create the Western North Region, Provide Job for all Graduates, abolish all taxes on food items, charge a flat rate of 3.5 % from MNEs instead of 17.5 % VAT, Pay One Million to all 275 Constituencies, One extension officer per 500 Paddle.
«Part of the problem was that I had come to the village with an agricultural extension officer from the adjacent area.
Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has announced recruitment news for the post of Agriculture Extension Officer Grade — ...
One Female Agric Extension Officer has been posted to beef up the staff strength of the Agric Department.
The government has announced plans to purchase three thousand motorcycles and two hundred and fifty pickups for use by Agricultural extension officers.
He was of the view that since the majority of the population are farmers living in such communities, it will be important for the government to invest in farming and the accompanied value chain, through proper training of extension officers and deploying as many as possible to help manage the largely uneducated farmers.
The banks and extension officers were always on standby to ensure that the right things were done.
Extension officers are being employed, for the first time in many years, to provide hands - on support to farmers, and we are generally paying extra attention to every stage of farming.
Each of the centers will be equipped with about ten tractors and an Agric extension officer to provide expert advice to farmers.
If you go to the Ministry of Agriculture at the district level, you have the extension officers there who are not able to visit farming communities because of lack of logistics.
They should also accept to work closely with the extension officers to improve their farming practices and adopt proper soil and water management systems.
Speaking to Onua Business News on the farms, one of the farmers who also double as an extension officer, Paa - Grant Arthur said that farmers invest an average of GHC2000 to grow the tomatoes and can make five folds in profits within 3 months on a good crop season.
The programme brought together chief farmers, extension officers and officials from the Forestry Commission to discuss ways of boosting crop yield and returns.