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New challenges in agricultural technology transfer.

Petit, M.; Barghouti, S.; Gnaegy, S.;

World Bank Technical Paper Year: 1993 Issue: No. 204 Pages: 1-7 Ref: 11 ref.

1993

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The paper focuses specifically on technologies that fit the needs of developing countries which have a relatively modern agricultural sector. It considers why technologies can be easily transfered to one country but not to another and why the transfer of certain technologies seem to be more problematic than others. Future developments include increasing the performance and efficiency of technologies in diverse areas such as water and soil management, high-value export-crop production, transportation and other postharvest handling, packaging, storage, and marketing. The greatest gains during the period of the Green Revolution were in areas with irrigation and fertile soils. Little attention was given to sub-optimal areas and their problems of poor resource endowment, labour shortages, the pattern of non-farm income-earning, adverse economic and policy conditions, and insufficient or inappropriate infrastructure. Trends to increasing cropping intensity are occurring both in the rainfed areas of th

e Middle East, North Africa, and the Indian subcontinent, as well as the irrigated areas of North Africa, and East and South Asia. The paper describes some of the improvements in technologies that have been introduced, and the challenges that these face, particularly in gaining aid and investments, but also the role of the developing country in ensuring a receptive environment for the effective review and adoption of, new technologies. The potential for the developed country to have a paternalistic or a partnership role is also discussed.