[Background]
The majority of the poor lives in rural farming areas where agricultural technology research development, technical transfer and agriculturalmechanization are slow. The mentioned subjects entail many obstacles and urgently require human resource development. Bhutan concentrates ondeveloping the central and eastern areas where nearly 40% of the total population lives but the farmers' income and their standard of living are lowdue to the slow development of agriculture compared to the western area. Topographical constraints delay the implementation of mechanizedagriculture in Bhutan, which causes the high labor input per agricultural plot. The shortage of farmers is becoming serious as the young work forcemoves to other industries.