This document discusses approaches to scaling up agricultural technology. It describes vertical scaling up as increasing capacity without changing processes and horizontal scaling out as replicating interventions in different contexts. Factors affecting farmer technology usage include education, perceptions, capital, facilities, and extension workers. Major components of scaling up are vision, scaling pathways (technology or market led), drivers, enabling environments (policies, financing, resources), and overcoming barriers like policies, organizations, financing, and knowledge. The private sector can fund projects, collaborate, and provide training. Scaling up enhances adoption rates, generates knowledge, empowers farmers, and promotes sustainability.

1. Agricultural Technology
Up scaling
Lecture 5:
The Up-scaling Approach to
Increase Agricultural Technology
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2. Types of Scaling Processes
Vertical:
Scaling up
Capacity of an innovation to
accommodate changes in larger
volumes of products / numbers of
people without changing the
processes.
Horizontal:
Scaling out
Replication of interventions or
practices / doing the same thing
with a similar scale in a different
context

3. Factors affecting technology
usage among farmers
• Education
• Negative perceptions
• Capital
• Facilities
• Extension workers
• Resource and funds

4. Major components to fulfill the needs and
target of scaling up
i. Vision
ii. Scaling up pathways
a) Technology led-pathway
- focusing on the demand for research and technology and
on the development of innovation systems
b) Market led-pathway
- bringing a known technology to farmers
- testing introduction at the local level
- evaluating the impact and process of adoption
iii.Drivers

5. Major components to fulfill the needs and
target of scaling up
iv. Enabling environment
- creating the space (right condition to scaling up)
- extension systems
- policy
- expanding access to credit and financing
- conserving natural resources
- social, cultural and political
- cooperation and partnerships

6. Barriers facing by agricultural sector in
scaling up pathway
i. Political space / Policy issues
- Price regulation
- Subsidies (input and credit)
ii. Organization/company space
- Poor value chains consist of collaborative and
competitive systems
iii. Financial space
- Poor access to financing
iv. Knowledge space

7. Forms of government involvement in
agricultural research
i. Improvements in intellectual property rights (e.g. patents)
ii. Commercialization opportunities
iii. Creation of new public or private research institutions
iv. Incentives for private R&D (e.g. tax breaks, subsidies)
v. Provision of public funds for agricultural R&D

8. Role of private sector ??
 Project funding
 R&D collaboration
 Skill training

9. Importance of agrotechnology up-scaling project
 Enhancing the rate of adoption of agricultural knowledge,
information and technology
- reduction of costs and risks of adopting new technologies and
practices
 Efficient and effective generation or adaptation of new knowledge
and technologies.
 Empowerment of farmers and agribusiness through their
associations and networks and transforming them to be more potent
actors in agricultural systems
 Economic, Social & Environment sustainability

10. Importance of agrotechnology up-scaling project
 Enhancing the rate of adoption of agricultural knowledge,
information and technology
- reduction of costs and risks of adopting new technologies and
practices
 Efficient and effective generation or adaptation of new knowledge
and technologies.
 Empowerment of farmers and agribusiness through their
associations and networks and transforming them to be more potent
actors in agricultural systems
 Economic, Social & Environment sustainability