Mapping and Categorizing Self-Help Agricultural Training Centers (SARTC) in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Self-Help Agricultural Training Centers (SARTC) is an institution established by advanced farmers with a willingness to share their successful farming experiences and create a learning community with peers. Mapping and classifying SARTC informs farming excellence and training service capability standards so that governments, communities, and farmers can obtain technologies that are more appropriate to the region's conditions. Therefore, this study aims to map and categorize SARTC in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Data collection was conducted through interviews and observations by combining spatial analysis, interview results, and secondary data. The results showed that SARTC are spread across each geographical zone and classified based on their ability to provide training services independently. Based on this finding, SARTC have functioned as farmer-to-farmer extension institutions that are specifically organized and not individualized. The capability class of SARTC was found to be more dominant in the intermediate and primary classes. Therefore, the policy to be pursued is to upgrade the SARTC capability class to the primary class to make participatory extension more effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]