@article{Hu:51902,
      recid = {51902},
      author = {Hu, Ruifa and Cai, Yaqing and Chen, Kevin Z. and Cui,  Ynogwei and Huang, Jikun},
      title = {Effects of Inclusive Village Level Public Agricultural  Extension Service: Policy Reform Experiment in Western  China},
      address = {2009-08},
      number = {1005-2016-79292},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {The top down public agricultural extension system in China  and its early reforms during the 1990’s has left millions  of farmers without access to extension services. An  inclusive agricultural extension system was introduced in  2005 to better meet the diverse technology needs of small  farmers.  Three key features of the experiment are 1)  inclusion of all farmers as target beneficiaries, 2)  effective identification of farmers’ technology needs, and  3) establishment of an accountability system to provide  better agricultural advisory services to small farmers.  This paper describes design of the reform initiative and  examines its effect on small farmers’ access to extension  services.  Based on the data randomly collected from 950  farmers in six counties from 2005-2007, the paper shows  that the inclusive reform initiative significantly  improving small farmers’ access to agricultural extension  services.  The implications for further reforms to the  agricultural extension system are then discussed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51902},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.51902},
}