Fund mobilization
Fund is now being mobilized through the communities
participating in extension services and supported with
funds from government agencies. The local communities
are becoming more committed to project executed in their
localities. For instance, 32 communities in 8 agricultural
regions recruited out of their own resources and made
available for extension services 87 agricultural counselors
on a two-year renewable term. In effect, both
private and public extension systems are made to compete
for extension services (Schorosca and Seck, 2003).
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munication and consultation on fund mobilization and
extension activities with all the actors involved in the extension
process. That is, farmers’ organizations’ NGOs,
Private sector organization, local decentralized community,
governments and donors. As a result of this
approach, the linkages between farmers, extension
agents and researchers have improved and more
effective operations have been witnessed in Madagascar.
However, many communities are left out of this extension
system because the system could not provide for those
who could not afford to pay their annual membership
fees.