Planning And Conducting Applied Agricultural Research

This study focuses on applied research as a service to a client with a problem that research can help solve. Because applied research has a definite purpose, there is usually a time constraint, a deadline by which the work must be completed, as well as a limit on the resources the client has available or is willing to use. Consequently, the researc

The desire to resolve problems through pragmatic observation, systematic evaluation, and coordinated action persists with each new generation of researchers. A timeless task that bears individual, social, and often cultural characteristics, problem resolution is essentially an experiential process. Routine and methodology can enhance both its proce

Research planning; programme formulation; national science policy and allocation of funds for research; allocation of funds for agricultural research; responsability and procedures for formulation of the agricultural research policy and programme; policy formulation at the national level; policy formulation at the material level; policy formulation at the institutional level; evaluation methods; the proble; steps in evaluation; techniques for evaluating research projects; evaluation graphs; the planning programming budgeting system; the evaluation graphy of the department of agronomy of INRA.

Agricultural plan, policy, and performance; institutional development of agricultural research; Allocation of financial and personnel resources for research; Research management and incentives; Agricultural research priorities and structure.