Education and training
Todd, J.M.
Alafua Agricultural Bulletin 6(4): 19-23
1981
DOI: 10.2307/41862990Document Number: 503346
The article gives details of the development in the Solomon Islands of agricultural training since 1954 which has led to the staffing of the Ministry with suitably qualified graduates educated in other parts of the South Pacific and the spread of agricultural education in the Solomon Islands proper. The technical and professional extension service is given numerical support by extension assistants who are mainly educated to primary school level and whose extension skills have been received through minimal in-service training. To upgrade the quality of the service, it is intended to replace extension assistants by demonstrators who will receive regular in-service training. Residential farmer training became available in 1965. The scheme proposed short training courses for farmers both at Asai and Mbarakoma.