.:: Lao Knowledge Base on Conservation Agriculture ::.
Since DMC is not a technical package but rather an important change affecting the farm and even the entire community, farmers must be efficiently trained to ensure successful dissemination of this innovation. The challenge is thus now to provide farmers and agricultural technicians with ready access to training on DMC techniques. This means organizing the social changes required for large-scale DMC dissemination. Farmers require constant supervision from the outset to facilitate their adoption of these techniques. The public sector and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should promote this access to information, specific training and farming practices. Betweenfarmer exchanges via associations and networks are highly efficient and beneficial in this respect. Farmers’ organizations indeed play a very important role with respect to adoption, training, information exchange and innovation. Networks are also important to facilitate exchanges between different countries or regions where farmers may be experiencing the same problems but the solutions may differ.
