Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Current Status of Advisory and Extension Services for Organic Agriculture in Europe and Turkey
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58541
THE MINISTRY
ORGANIC FARMING DEPARTMENT
CENTRAL UNIT (ANKARA)
Provincial Directorates
Organic Farming Central
Provinces
(OFCP)
Provincial Directorates
Organic Farming Units
(OFU)
Bilateral Cooperation-Joint work
TARGEL
Organic
Group
TARGEL
Organic
Group
Figure 2.
Re-organizing public extension for organic farming in Turkey [38].
the extension services of organic farming must be provided with technical information and
update their professional competencies.
•
Personnel must be gained practical skills and field experience
: Beside theoretical information,
technical staff must be trained in the field to gain practical experiences, particularly for the
specific region. They also must participate in hands-on training activities and be able to
apply their skills in the field.
•
Adoption of participatory extension approaches:
It is important to utilize the positive sides of the
participatory extension approaches. These approaches require institutional changes and
appropriate arrangements for the implementation. In this way, participatory approaches
must be taught to extension personnel and the efficiency of extension work must be
increased.
•
Continuous in-service education to update and upgrade occupational knowledge of extension
personnel:
In order to develop well-educated and skillful extension personnel extension staff
must be given in-service education in certain times. In order for the extension personnel to
use proper extension methods and to give farmers correct information them must take a
“training of trainers” program. This can be possible with adoption of continuous education
programs [9, 38].
As it can be seen, if the public wants to provide effective extension or advisory services for
organic agriculture the most appropriate model should be develop or use in the actual
conditions in Turkey.
