FARMERS, TRAINING AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: DOES IT STACK UP?

摘要

The paper presents the findings of a telephone survey of farmers' involvement in continuing professional development (CPD), and the impact of this involvement on the farmers and their businesses. The problems of measuring the amount of CPD farmers undertake and of identifying its impacts are discussed. The findings suggest that CPD did not necessarily deliver a positive impact on profit - but farmers identified other directly related (non-pecuniary) benefits of CPD, The conclusions suggest that farmers, funders and deliverers can improve the impact of CPD by linking the objectives of the training schemes to the motivations which underpin farmers' decisions to participate in CPD.