The Institutional Design Of A Neo-agricultural Technology Extension System In Our Country

Speeding up the traditional agricultural technology extension system reform, and actively building a new agricultural technology extension system that adapts market economy and modern agricultural development is a widely discussed hot topic in recent years. However, building a new agricultural technology extension system involves a series of problems, such as, organization structure, function orientation, personnel arrangement, fund input, development model, operational mechanism, technology supply etc. But all these issues are essentially institutional problems. Without institution, all kinds of resources that constitute the new agricultural technology extension system would not be able to perform its functions. Therefore, institutional innovation is crucially important to the successful building of a new agricultural technology extension system, in other words, the research on institutional innovation or design should play a core role in the construction of a new agricultural technology extension system.This paper aims at the institutional design problems existing in the new agricultural technology extension system, and on the basis of the previous research results, it re-examines the experience of constructing agricultural technology extension system in foreign countries, and analyzes the features of institutional arrangements, continued system dilemma as well as institutional obstacles of reform and innovation in domestic traditional agricultural technology extension system; And based on the environmental analysis, this article proposes some basic principles, basic ideas and pattern orientation in the institutional design of a new agricultural technology extension system.Based on the study mentioned above, this paper further studies government-orientated model, and puts forth a new trinity framework for the government-oriented agricultural technology extension system, namely, taking agricultural technology extension system of the agricultural sector as its main body, and at the same time making it closely combined with agricultural universities and research institution. In this framework, it has redesigned a new organization system, input system, management system and operational mechanism, and reconstructed the bonding mechanism among research, education and extension. Finally, aiming at the market-based development model of the new agricultural technology extension system, this article proposes a multiple and formal organization system framework, and the author also puts forward some suggestions on the correlation mechanism between the market-based development model and government-orientated model and on how to provide institutional supply to market-based extension system.