A follow-up study of the development of ex-standard VIII school leavers after two years' training in practical farming at Mahiwa Young Farmers' Training Centre, Mtwara region, Tanzania, during 1964/67

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Title:	A follow-up study of the development of ex-standard VIII school leavers after two years' training in practical farming at Mahiwa Young Farmers' Training Centre, Mtwara region, Tanzania, during 1964/67
Author:	Lawrence, Christine
Year:	1969
Periodical:	Mbioni: The Monthly Newsletter of Kivukoni College
Volume:	5
Issue:	9
Pages:	12-22
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subject:	school leavers
Abstract:	Mahiwa Young Farmers' Training Centre's aim was to produce practical farmers who would return to their villages to show the way forward to improved agriculture, and thus an improved standard of living. The Training centre was built to give a one-year course in General Farming to sixty students. When Mahiwa started its training the Ujamaa idea was not as developed as it is today. The weakest point in the Mahiwa scheme lay in the villages to which the students would return after completion of their training. The question asked is: how successful has the training given at Mahiwa been during the first three courses? Taking as the criterion of success the number of students remaining in agriculture after finishing their training, the success achieved has been through the training given, but not in the Way expected. This follow-up analysis shows that ideas about development and the success of a new form of training must be flexible, Tables p. 23 and 25.