Constraints for Technological Transfer

Q. Why rapid technological transfer for rural development in Bangladesh is not possible?

Technology transfer is an important measure to develop any area, but for a developing country like Bangladesh where problems in physical, social, economical and instructional dimensions are present in both policy and local levels, rapid technology transfer would not became possible.

Problems constraints for local level can be described as:

• Mainly lack of education and skills can not make one able to adopt the technology.
• Socio-economic status of the operator (low income level, lack of farming land, lack of capital make on incapable of using modern technology)
• Lack of knowledge about technologies and operating machineries and adoption power of technology.
• And also the biophysical constraints like –climate, soil quality, water quality and quantity, pest pressure, weeds which all are natural constraints.
  

And also constraints in policy level for rapid technology transfer are as below:

• Limitation in the rural credit market (scarcity of loan able funds, monopoly of moneylenders, high transaction costs for small loans, high default risk etc).
• New agricultural technologies are increasingly becoming complex, knowledge-intensive and location-specific. And also there is a knowledge gap of farmers with new-technologies.
• The lack of infrastructure facilities depresses farm-gate prices and constrains of the growth of perishable food items. The condition of rural infrastructure has been shown to have a major impact on agriculture production, employment, income, and consumption pattern and investment behavior in Bangladesh.
• Lack of uninterrupted power supply by DESA/REB resulting in inappropriate processing at the milling level and also the irrigation level.
• Lack of easy access to financial market by the farmers, small traders and processors leading to poor or no benefits from economy of scale.
• Lack of ample storeroom facilities resulting in large scale productions by the farmers’ and traders’ during the harvesting season sold at a lower cost.
• In Bangladesh the development of production is uneven spatially. Lack of adjustments in the policies and institutional mechanism pertaining to irrigation, water control structures and seed-fertilizer technology, mechanized cultivation, especially power tillers which needs for better productions.
• Collaboration problems with public (Government) and private (NGOs) sector help to regenerate agricultural research: The private sector could also help regenerate agricultural research. The government can make it easier through proper support for the private sector to appropriate and use research results including hybrids.

These are the problems found in both policy and local level which work as constraints for rapid technology transfer for rural development of Bangladesh.