Paradox and Implications for the Creation of the New National Agency for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension: a Step Back

Abstract

The bill to create the National Agency for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ANATER) was approved on August 7, 2013, unanimously in the Agriculture Committee, Livestock, Supply and Rural Development of the House of Representatives. In order to extend the reach to new technologies by farmers across the country. This paper aims to summarize and critique through historical bias of the extension the creation of new ANATER through evaluation of their objectives, way of operating, administrative and future prospects for its operations. The creation of the new agency refers to the history of agricultural extension in the country. The extension goes far beyond the implementation of new production techniques and increased income and profit for the families of the field, it reaches levels structure political, economic, social and philosophical, and therefore liable to suffer various interferences and modifications, They can be either the local socio-cultural level and at the national levels. The creation of a national agency directly interferes in these variables, and should be evaluated local and individual characteristics of each region so that we can optimize and adapt correctly the extension and its shares.