The Black Bay Vegetable Co-operative Project in Saint Lucia: an evaluation study
1986
St Hill, R.
Vegetable production is relatively new to the Black Bay area. With the advent of the tourist trade in late 1960, the Ministry of Agriculture began to push vegetable production wherever feasible. The Extension Service focussed its strategies mainly on the "Generalist Approach" in which the Agricultural Instructor was expected to serve all agricultural needs of the farmers. Inadequate to meet the new thrust in vegetable production, a saturation model was proposed. The relative agricultural potential of an area or region is first determined and the Government places as much of its extension resources as possible in that area which then becomes a development priority and seeks to motivate farmers and maximize potential. As a result, the Black Bay Vegetable Co-operative Project was established in 1973. The "Saturation Model" of Extension Development can have great impact on rural transformation and hence national development if properly analyzed, planned and implemented with an integrated, participatory approach, not only to agricultural development, but general rural development and with emphasis on the comprehensive human development of rural families
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