The Role of Agricultural Extension in Poverty Reduction

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of the Eritrean economy and it is the livelihood of the vast majority of the Eritrean people of whom more than 70 per cent of the population depends on agriculture and its allied fields for income and employment. The productivity in Eritrean agriculture is low because of the long devastating war, frequent droughts,and serious land degradation. In subsistence farming, farmers use their own traditional farming practices as well as inputs and produce mostly for family consumption.