Sector Pages :: Agriculture Extension and Advisory Services

Leading consultancy and research organisation
International	for agriculture and food, rural development and environment in the UK and overseas.

Home > Sector Pages > Agriculture Extension And Advisory Services

Latest World News:

Agriculture Exension and Advisory Services

luxury hotels in Jelenia Gora With over 50 years' experience in delivering extension and advisory services to farmers in the UK, ADAS is uniquely placed to develop such services in other countries. Over the past 10 years ADAS has been engaged in a number of projects designed to develop these services in Central and Eastern Europe and other countries around the world. ADAS consultants in the UK provide services to over 20000 farmer clients as well as commercial companies, co-operatives, utilities and central and local government. Subjects covered include all aspects of agriculture, land-use, the environment, waste management, agro-tourism and rural development.

Since 1997, ADAS has been involved in the commercialisation of its services designed to meet increasing government cost recovery targets. This resulted in the formation of the ADAS Agency in 1992 and its subsequent privatisation in 1997.

In international projects ADAS has worked for the British Know How Fund, the European Union's PHARE and TACIS programmes, the World Bank, FAO and EBRD as well as many private clients. Our links with many other sister organisations in Europe and North America enable the best approaches to be brought to bear on any particular situation. ADAS' understanding of the need to deliver high quality, value-for-money services to assist in the development of agriculture and rural economies and its experience in developing the necessary services to meet this need means that it is uniquely placed to deliver strategically important projects in this field.

Russia
ADAS has worked on two major projects concerned with developing extension services in Russia. These were funded by the World Bank (ARIS) and the Know How Fund (FICS) and covered organisation, staff development and training and evolving services for farmers. The recipients were the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Oblasts of Nizhny Novgorod and Oryol.

Ukraine
In the Lviv Oblast ADAS has been responsible for implementing a TACIS project to develop a new extension service with a central office and five regional offices. Staff have been recruited, computers and other equipment procured and services established. There has been a heavy emphasis on training particularly on crop and animal production farm management and marketing. The Lviv Agricultural Extension Service is seen as a model for all Ukraine.

Romania
In this PHARE project, ADAS established pilot extension services in 16 judets, trained staff and provided institutional support to the new service. On the ground coaching support was provided with heavy emphasis on the development of farm management skills, extension programming and training skills.

Home > Sector Pages > Agriculture Extension And Advisory Services
Visitors since August 1, 1999: 24580 chambre d'hotel a Kilkenny This site updated on: March 04, 2001