Agricultural Innovation System for Cotton in Azerbaijan

1. Agricultural Innovation Systemfor Cotton in Azerbaijan Tugrul Temel and Ajit Maru International Service for National Agricultural Research

2. Agricultural Innovation System A set of organizations interacting in areas concerning cotton policy, research & extension, credit, farming, input supply, marketing, and processing; • To develop, distribute & apply new or improved technologies for cotton; and • To influence the process of change in the cotton sector.

3. Set of Interacting Organizations • Policy units [P] • Cotton research & extension organizations [R] • Agricultural banks [B] • Cotton farmers, Farmers’ association [F] • Input suppliers (seed/fertilizer/pest./equipment) [I] • Cotton marketing firms [M] • Cotton processing firms [Pr] • Consultancy firms [C] • External organizations (Int’l orgs, NGOs, donors) [X]

4. F Organizations in NARS Additional organizations in the AIS Linkages between any two organizations in the AIS Agricultural Innovation System Organizations and Their Linkages P PM R B FX I M Pr C X FX Linkage between Farmers and External organizations

5. F Agricultural Innovation System: Cotton Supply Chain P PM R B FX I M Pr C Linkages between any two organizations in the cotton supply chain X

6. Problems of Farm Production • Inefficient information & extension system • Farmers’ lack of knowledge & skills about new varieties, technologies, & input use • Inefficient seed production system • Low quality cotton production • Lack of credit

7. F Agricultural Innovation System: Linkages Relating to the Production Problems P PM R B FX I M Pr Linkages to be strengthened to solve the production problems C X

8. Agricultural Innovation System An Agricultural Innovation System comes into being through flow of: • Information • Knowledge • Skills • Resources

9. Solutions to the Problems Require • An effective flow of IKSR among organizations of the AIS for cotton • An information exchange network to facilitate this flow between multiple organizations

10. F Organizations and information flows in NARS Additional organizations in the AIS Linkages between any two organizations in the AIS Agricultural Innovation System: Information Flows within Research and Extension System P R B I M Pr C X

11. Agricultural Innovation System Information and Knowledge Flows in an AIS are pluralistic

12. F Organizations and information flows in NARS Linkages between any two organizations in the AIS Agricultural Innovation System: Information Flows P R B I M Pr C Additional organizations and new information flows in the AIS X

13. F Organizations in NARS Additional organizations in the AIS Linkages between any two organizations in the AIS Agricultural Innovation System: Information Flow through an Information Exchange Network P PM R B FX I Information Exchange Network M Pr C X Information Flow in AIS through Information Exchange Network

14. Agricultural Innovation System • An Information Exchange Network (IEN) facilitates an AIS • It may be essential for AIS to develop • An IEN may be a “public good” to support the AIS for Cotton in Azerbaijan • It may be initiated by the Research System and supported through Public-Private Partnership

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