Annex


3. Extension


The project has been integrated into the Training and Visit system
of extension. Agricultural Assistants, the front-line extension
workers, pay fortnightly visits to participating farmers and also
carry the project's messages to all forty-eight or more farmers on
each AA's scheduled tour of duty. Within the Nyanza and Western
Provinces more than 1,000 front-line workers have received orien-
tation training in the practices recommended by the project. The
project has promoted the use of field days whereby groups of
farmers are invited to attend discussions of timely topics. These
field days have proved a most effective use of the AA's time and
talents.

4. Training
The project has provided training in grain storage management,
primarily for Agricultural Officers, Assistant Agricultural Officers,
and Agricultural Assistants. Some of the highly specialized training
for senior officers has been in formal courses overseas-in the UK
and the USA. However, most of the training has been done in
specially designed, in-country short courses.
As well as this training for extension staff, there have been
awareness-raising courses for location chiefs and members of the
provincial and district administrations.
To support this training, the project has produced and distributed
a wide variety of printed and audio-visual materials related to the
messages the project wishes to spread as widely as possible among
the farmers of Kenya-and among those who are helping farmers
to increase their productivity.
This manual is an example of such training material.


IMPLEMENTATION
In 1990, after successfully introducing the project's grain storage
management recommendations to farmers in Western Kenya, a
national crop post-harvest management programme was imple-
mented by Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture.