Private/ contractual extension providers
To facilitate CIP implementation, there are private extension service providers engaged through
contracts in some districts with a high production potential in which the government and NGOs
extension services are not adequate. These private extension service providers have two
additional agronomists at the sector level who work together with the sector agronomists and
provide services similar to those provided by government agronomists such as working with
farmer cooperatives, establishing and working with farmers at the Farmer Field Schools. In
Western province they have been contracted mainly for production of Irish potatoes. In Nyabihu
district, they have contracted an organization called „Urugaga Imbaraga‟.