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What is Project? Planning and Project Advantage and Limitation Preparation Aspects and Project Analysis Project Cycle Communication
PROJECT
Project is a framework that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim. Agricultural project is a framework which is planned according to the farming time to use resources to get crops as much as possible.
The area of project usually very large area but still can be divided. Project can be having political power. Project can be viewed as a unity of time and place with economical, financial, and social value.
Advantages:
Projects
which are prepared well, in planning framework, will give more meaning for building (farm) effort. Project framework: planning and evaluation by analyst, specific objectives, alternatives considerations, yearly cost estimation, and managerial and organizational implication examination.
The
project framework figures out the costs that must be spent each year so that persons who responsible to provide resources can do planning by themselves. Project framework also can give a solution of data problems.
Limitations:
Garbage
in, garbage out. The quality of the received data affects the project analysis quality. Risk and uncertainty that caused by the changes of conditions in the future
Institutionalorganizationalmanagerial
Financial
Social
Economic
Technical Aspect
Related
to the input (supply) and output (production) of real goods and service. To evaluate the technical relationships in a project which possibly suggested.
Institutional-organizational-managerial Aspect
Communication
system in organization, organization to organization, organization to workers (farmers), and organization to public.
Social Aspect
Consideration
of the pattern and habits of the people who will be served. Analyzing negative environmental effects.
Commercial Aspect
Marketing
planning of outputs (crops) which produced by the project and supplying planning of inputs for the sustainability of the project.
Financial Aspect
Planning
the budget for each parts (members) separately. Counting the income, salary, and tax, and also maintenance cost. Main object: to determine the sum of farmers who dependant to the project.
Economic Aspect
The
complementary of financial analysis. Financial aspect: individually viewing; economic aspect: society viewing
PROJECT CYCLE
Identification
Evaluation
Implementation
Valuation (Assessment)
Identification
To
get potential project, identify what is sufficient, and make priority list of investment areas. study to information to start the
next step. Financial and economic analysis must be started. Spends significant time and budget.
Estimation (assessment)
The
step to recheck all the aspects in planning a project. Better value, easier to get loan.
Implementation
The
most important phase of a project cycle. Better and more reality planning make a bigger possibility to be conducted and expected profit can be reached.
Evaluation
Analyzing
succeed and failed part in a project. Evaluation is not only for project which has been finished.
COMMUNICATION
Communication which gives advice Supports the exchange of knowledge in a horizontal Developing policies and/or technological innovation Conflict management Supports organizational and capacity development Transitioning to the ensuring policies and/or technological innovation
REFERENCES
Gittinger, J. Price. 1928. Economic Analysis of Agriculture Project. Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press Leeuwis, Cees & Anne Van Den Ban. 2006. Communication for Rural Innovation: Rethinking Agricultural Extension. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing