ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING


OF PROGETTAPS
 ICTA, DIGESA and DIGESEPE will be jointly responsible for the
 organization and operation of the Modular System for Technology
 Transference (MSTT) within the new project, PROGETIAPS. The
 various modular systems will operate under this directive inter-
 institutional nucleus, and the number of modules within each system
 will vary from region to region. The module is the basic unit and the
 system has as many modules as it is feasible to establish within a given
 region or subregion./L
 Each module (Fig. 2) will be integrated by a "tcnico"/ of
ICTA's Technology Testing and Transference Tean (4 Ts) in the sub-
region, with logistic support from ICTA's regional team, one AG-
promoter, and 10 rural leaders. This researcherL/ will have two
responsibilities: Generate Technologies and promote their use through
the training of the AG-promoters in the characteristics and
management of these technologies. The AG-promoters have been
already trained in actvities of formation (youth clubs), motvation and
promotion. This fact makes possible that the AG-promoters may work
with different groups or categories of farmers. These "new" extension
agents will participate with the researcher in conducting researcher-
managed and farmer-managed on-farm trials; they will also participate
in the planning of the research activities, mage AG-promoter active
participants in the generation of technology, motivate them in
understanding the whole system and the role they play, and give them
full knowledge on the characteristics and management of new
technology to increase their effectiveness in promoting its use.




j/ ICTA's Technology Testing and Transference teams operate at a
 sub-regional level. Region and sub-region are political-geographi-
 cal division used by the Agricultural and Food Public Sector.

 2/ The "tcnicos" from ICTA's 4 T's are mostiv university graduates,
 and most of them are agronomists.