@article{Stratan:291830,
      recid = {291830},
      author = {Stratan, Alexandru and Ignat, Anatolie and Lucasenco,  Eugenia},
      title = {Development of extension services – a challenge for the  RDI flow in the agriculture of the Republic of Moldova},
      journal = {Rural Areas and Development},
      address = {2018},
      number = {740-2019-3078},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {Considerable efforts to create a professional and  effective rural extension service in the Republic of  Moldova have been made in the last decade. Unfortunately,  there are currently limited institutional connections  between the components of knowledge in agriculture in  Moldova and information system, for example, between  institutions of agricultural research, extension and  education/ training. These three components work  independently, while collaboration is limited to  involvement of researchers and professors as consultants in  shortterm projects of the extension service. Therefore, the  Republic of Moldova lacks a permanent platform for  communication and cooperation, aimed at serving the common  needs of the private sector. Agricultural science and  innovative policy development should stimulate obtaining  new knowledge, highly productive biological material,  intensify innovation activities in agro-industrial sector,  while creating conditions for absorbing local and foreign  innovations through the range of measures, such as:  research, development and innovation (RDI) activities  focused on priority directions of the sector development;  stimulating innovative scientific activities in order to  create new varieties and hybrids of plants and highly  productive breeds of animals, applying advanced farming and  processing of raw materials; promotin the creation and  implementation of a system of economic incentives for  attracting and absorbing innovations in the sector;  deepening economic research to ensure scientific support  for the sustainable development of the agribusiness sector;  modernizing the training and retraining of the staff from  the agricultural education sector and adjustment of the  quality of education to market requirements; supporting the  development of technological transfer and extension network  in agro-industrial sector (Government of the Republic of  Moldova, 2008).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/291830},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.291830},
}