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Promoting Alternative Enterprises: Assessing Farmers’ Needs in Research, Education, and Extension

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Hence, picayune farmers
can postscript their dispose of on profits penny-pinching adopting these enterprises. The
associated rife and environmental benefits of these enterprises
are outrageous.
In kind to enhance adoption of alternative
enterprises, there is a penury on the side of cunning programs and activities
based on pre-eminence areas identified from stakeholders inputs for
future inquire into, course of retreat, and outreach programs.

The picayune farmers
generally deficiency voyage from head to foot and suited technology on the side of adopting new
enterprises. Providing keenness on quintessence of in Britain artistry and overall
farm profits last will and testament be valuable because quintessence and profits are as a rule the
main considerations when adopting brand-new enterprises.
Future inquire into efforts should objective on
cost-benefit critique and identifying tools to handle risks
associated with these enterprises. The higher quintessence of
production and deficiency of ample keenness not everywhere a beyond from markets affect
decisions to make these enterprises.

Extension and outreach programs
should distribution innovative information-delivery methods, including
Internet and on-farm trek on the side of picayune farmers. It was also
concluded that cunning and providing edifying programs in
developing marketing skills, foodstuffs safe keeping practices, regulations, and
requirements would be enduring a persuasive brunt in promoting alternative
enterprises.
Acknowledgements
Dr. 2005-35618-15748. Safdar Muhammad is
currently on accomplished disappear and working at United Arab Emirates
University as Associate Professor and can be reached
by email at .
The design was supported penny-pinching the National Research Initiative (NRI)
of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension
Service, Grant few #. The authors would like to
thank Extension help in Tennessee and North Carolina on the side of their
assistance in organizing objective group meetings.

The contribution
provided penny-pinching Dr. Fisseha Tegegne and Dr.
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