Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Sosial Ekonomi Pertanian, Bogor

Abstract

This paper describes approaches in providing a chance to people to participate in the
agricultural development. The paper consist of four steps namely:1) Introduction activities
that should be carried out before implementing the PRA. such as recognizing each other
between field staffs and farmers and socialization of the program. 2) Steps and the
principles of PRA. 3) . Increasing the participation of people throught structural approaches
and 4) Increasing the participation of people through structural approaches. It is concluded
that to increase the agricultural development , the implementation of PRA is definitely
needed. There are three steps and 20 principles of PRA method that should be followed in
implementing PRA. Before implementing PRA, recognition and program socialization are
needed. In order to get success program, a manual of the program should be prepared. The
steps and principles of the PRA should be implemented based on the specific location. To
increase the development of agriculture, field staffs should be understand well about the
structure and culture of the target village.ngembangan Sosial Ekonomi Pertanian, Bogor