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Modern Concepts & Developments in Agronomy

Nigeria Stored Products Research Institute Multipronged Approach to Disseminationof Improved Postharvest Technologies in Nigeria

Submission: September 06, 2022;Published: September 19, 2022

DOI: 10.31031/MCDA.2022.11.000767

ISSN: 2637-7659
Volume11 Issue4

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Effective dissemination has been on the front burner of efforts to promote adoption of improved technologies. In disseminating her range of postharvest technologies, NSPRI has deployed a mix of orthodox (individual, group, and mass contact method) and unorthodox (Agricultural Research Outreach Centre in villages and schools) methods. While the orthodox methods have proved successful in some spheres its inadequacies birthed the AROC whose strength is participatory technology transfer. NSPRI has established a number of AROCs across Nigeria that have increased the rate of utilization of technologies by host communities and also by farmers in adjoining communities.

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