Decentralization of public-sector agricultural extension in India: The case of the district-level Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA)
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agricultural extension reform; Decentralization; demand-driven; organizational capacity;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2011-03-19 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2011-03-19 (Public Economics)
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