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if it satisfies the following criteria:
● Conducted in farmers’ field and only a component of the technology is involved;

● Tested in technology generation research for at least one season;

● Technology shows good economic viability potential based on technology
generation research; and

● Good potential for acceptance by farmers and commercial producers.

b. Technology verification. A technology is for verification if it can be incorporated in
a package of technology that has potential for improving existing farmers’ practices.
Specifically, it should satisfy the following:

● It is an integrated technology conducted in farmers’ fields;

● It has been tested for 2-3 seasons in the technology generation trials;

● It has shown economic viability and technical feasibility in technology generation
trials; and

● Its computed return based on technology generation trials is better than that of
farmers’ practices.

c. Technology piloting. Technology piloting, also referred to as action projects, is an
innovative work undertaken to:

● To confirm and demonstrate the feasibility of actually applying a technology using
the community-based approach; and

● To gauge end user’s reaction to introduction of improved technologies and
identifying potential problems related to its wider dissemination, utilization and
adoption so that these can be fed back to researchers.

d. Technology packaging. This involves the production of material technologies (seeds,
breeds, tools, equipment) and the training of farmers and extension agents.

e. Technology commercialization. Commercialization is an activity involving the application
of technologies on a commercial scale by identified entrepreneurs or used primarily to
increase one’s income or profits and productivity in a much wider scale.

2. Strategies for KTM (R&D Utilization)

a. Building on earlier successes KT generators (scientists and researchers) and KT adaptors
through cooperative initiatives from as early as the planning stage of R&D agenda
setting to the production KT phase;

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