<p>To speak of rethinking the mission of the agricultural support system is no easy task. It has already played crucial roles in Asia’s recent agricultural development.</p>
<p>This paper is designed to determine the challenges to sustainable development and what poverty alleviation might mean for the mission of agricultural research and extension. It focuses on limited-resource farmers and on the crucial distinction between agricultural support as a transfer and as a transformational process.</p>
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