Enhancing Smallholder Access to Agricultural Machinery Services: Lessons from Bangladesh

Access to agricultural services

Institutional Reforms and Electricity Access: Lessons from Bangladesh and Thailand

The paper discusses the institutional reforms for rural electrification (RE) in Thailand and Bangladesh and analyses the impacts of private sector participation in electricity generation and tariff reforms on the poor in Thailand. RE program in Thailand, initiated in 1977, increased electricity access by rural households from 7% in early 70s to 97% by 2000. In Bangladesh the RE program, initiat...

Improving continuing medical education by enhancing interactivity: lessons from Iran

Introduction: Continuing Medical Education (CME) has beenconsidered as a lifelong commitment for doctors to provide theoptimal care for patients. Despite a long history of creating CMEprograms, outcomes are far from ideal. The present qualitativestudy aims to clarify the barriers affecting effectiveness of the CMEprograms in Iran based on the experiences of general practitioners.Methods: Sixtee...

Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: Census findings

There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Such 'scale-appropriate' machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery demand has resulted in relatively well-developed markets for rental services for tillage, irrigation, ...

Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Agricultural Training and Demonstration in Ethiopia: Implications for Inclusive Targeting by Agricultural Extension Services

Small farms and smallholder farming systems play crucial roles in agricultural development in many developing countries. From the various rural development programs designed to support such farming systems, agricultural extension services are of at most importance. However, the benefit that farmers obtain from these services and the resulting impact depends, to a great extent, by their direct a...