Name of item

Pirganj Sub-district

Dinajpur Sadar Sub-district

Ongoing project¹

Agricultural technology transfer

Construction of Rubber Dams in Small and Medium Rivers and Agricultural technology transfer

% of farmers who received training²

1

1.9

% of farmers who received farm publications³

21

28

Establishment of crops demonstration plots

19

23

Field days and farmers rally

No

3

% of farmers who received subsidy

85

87

% of farmers who received inputs assistance

0.5

0.5 - 1

% of officer who received training

90

100

Main content of training programmes

IPM, crop diversification, seed bed preparation and using LLC, seed production

Water management, compost preparation, pulse crop cultivation, seed production, etc.

Structured cooperation and coordination among stakeholders⁴

No

Currently no

Problems (farmers)

Farmer’s financial inability to apply technology for which received training, biases in trainee selection, insufficient training allowance, disinterest in adopting new technologies due to lack of knowledge, skills and capacities.

Challenges (government)

Lack of funding/project for training/extension activities, shortage of modern training equipments for empirical learning, lack of highly qualified trainers, lack of coordination between service provider agencies, lack of working facilities.