ABSTRACT
Nations currently involved in modernizing their agricultural sectors are experiencing difficulty in generating a shaping process which will stimulate and sustain a more rapid rate of development. The dimensions of the challenge indicate that a crucial central factor is the behavioural response of individuals and groups of individuals to that change process called agricultural development. More farmers must respond favourably. In addition, it is suggested that new behaviours, new productive capacities through new skills and understandings, must also be generated among the many individuals engaged in agricultural support activities. A dual but coordinate set of non–formal education activities directed at farmers and persons in agri–support activities is seen as an immediately available tool for enhancing the productive capacities of these many individuals.
