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Racpid Results
FSR/E is an expensive methodology during initial years.
The success of farming systems approaches is ultimately measured by how many members of 'the clientele adopt generated technology. This includes the need to measure how farmers themselves come to understand and use scientific methods to test new technologies. As has been suggested, successful generation of technology hypothetically results from rapid and accurate identification of problems and rapid, simplified but scientific "fine-tuning" of research designed to meet these problems under specific conditions of the farming systems 4" question. At this point, it is possible to summarize the research results achieved by the North Florida FSR/E team, to indicate how rapidly they were achieved, and to indicate expected acceptancy of the proposed alternatives by the clientele. The IFAS Extension Evaluation Unit will be conducting an evaluation of the program during 1984-87, in which adoption rates among the clientele will be measured.