You might think that the invisible hand of market competition would have solved these problems, that the prospect of higher income from improvedpractices would have encouraged change.
Secretary Richardson has just allowed the same thing to be done to another champion of improved security practices, the Associate Director for National Security Programs at Los Alamos, Dr. Stephen Younger .
Within the initiative of Joint Programme targeted at creation of new income generation opportunities and promotion of improved agricultural practices, 24 rural farmers and dehkhans (small farmers) in target areas were selected to form a network of agriculture extension agents (rural consultants) responsible for provision of consultancy services to rural population and solutions to the problems they might face in application of new agricultural practices.