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Information technology in the Costa Rican dairy sector: A key instrument in extension and on-farm research

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  • Mees Baaijen
  • Enrique Pérez

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Can computer and information technology (IT), widely used in the development of livestock health and production, be of any benefit for Third World farmers and institutions? And if so, how can they be implemented on a large scale? The authors try to answer these and related questions based on experiences with computerized dairy herd health and production programs in Costa Rica. They conclude that IT is becoming a key instrument in the planning and operation of modern extension services and on-farm research for meeting the farmers' increasing needs for information and for enhancing their ability to manage the available resources efficiently. IT enables private sector extension services provided by farmer groups and advisors to give farmers access to information that they previously lacked. These services facilitate bottom-up planning. Where IT does not allow the farmer or extension agent to solve the problem, IT can be used to articulate the problem for researchers or policy makers to address. For low-resource smallholders, access to IT can be provided through local farmer organizations. At the institutional level, IT is giving a strong impulse to the improvement of on-farm research, teaching programs, institutional and disciplinary cooperation, regional networking, and to a better linkage with the productive sector. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995

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  • Mees Baaijen & Enrique Pérez, 1995. "Information technology in the Costa Rican dairy sector: A key instrument in extension and on-farm research," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 12(2), pages 45-51, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:12:y:1995:i:2:p:45-51
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02217296
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    1. Wadsworth, Jonathan, 1993. "Use of causal path analysis to predict optimum extension strategies: a case study of Costa Rican livestock producers," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 41(4), pages 503-523.
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