Rural Extension in Eastern Papua.

Abstract

An account is given of the development of a Village Committee Organization, for the purposes of Agricultural Extension in the first instance, and of how the extension programme inevitably becomes broadened into what might more aptly be termed ” Rural Extension ” (Penders 1956); of how the programme is at first channeled through the men but how inevitably it spreads to the women too. The organization gradually develops through the village level to the area level and finally to the Administrative District level.