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, Started on 2013 -
Completed on 2013
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One of the challenges of the research managers is to bring out the knowledge products
(including technologies, research results information)from the R and D organization (RDO) to
the extension system, as well as from RDO to the direct clients, like the farmers. To ensure
the utilization of knowledge products on rice technologies, several modalities have evolved
in the past decades, including farm demonstration, farmers training and other technology
transfer and extension methods. But the conventional communication delivery systems (CDS)
need to be ameliorated so that access to up-to-date agricultural technologies could be as fast
as the click of the mouse with the advent of information communication technology (ICT)
and the goal to modernize agriculture. This paper is based on the study which analyzed
how the CDS in local government unit (LGU)-managed and non-government organization
(NGO)-managed cyber-villages contributed to knowledge sharing and decision making among
the rice farmers in Infanta, Quezon Province assisted by the International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI). The rice farmers in the cyber-villages appear to be more of knowledge seekers
than knowledge donors indicates that they value knowledge on NRT as an important resource.
The intermediaries (LGU technicians and NGO worker) have influenced the adoption decisions
of the cyber-village farmers. The paper uncovered some implications of cyber village as the
hub of knowledge sharing and decision making to R&D management in terms of organization
and management (between LGU- and NGO-managed cyber village), external linkage-building,
and coordination among international and local RDOs, NGO, and LGU.