| dc.creator | Leonard, David K. | |
| dc.date | 2011-03-31T13:22:26Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-03-31T13:22:26Z | |
| dc.date | 1972 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:54:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:54:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Leonard, David K. (1972) The social structure of the agricultural extension services in the Western province of Kenya. Discussion Paper 126, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/482 | |
| dc.identifier | 322119 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1842 | |
| dc.description | Agricultural extension visits in Western Province are heavily skewed
in favour of progressive farmers and are infrequently paid to the
non-innovative majority. This pattern is certainly undesirable in
terms of income distribution but it also probably does not maximum
the possibilities for economic growth in agriculture. In a Tanzania
study, Thoden van Volzen argues that a similar distribution of
government services is caused by the fact agricultural extension
officials are part of an isolated, cohesive, social elite and that
this involves them in a social class alliance and exchange of benefits
with the richer farmers. Data from Western Province confirm that
the senior agricultural staff are part of an isolated, relatively
cohesive elite group. The junior staff, who are in direct contact
with farmers, form groups distinct from their seniors, however,
are local in their orientation, are part of the middle, not the upper,
rural elite, and are not very cohesive. Furthermore, neither their
middle elite social status nor any private exchange of benefits
account for their stress on work with progressive farmers. Instead,
it seems more likely that the progressive farmer bias is caused
by a combination of factors, including extension ideology, the
psychological response to receptivity and distorted perceptions
of the rural reality. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion papers;126 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.subject | Agriculture | |
| dc.title | The social structure of the agricultural extension services in the Western province of Kenya | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
