Success Stories
What a recommendation actually did on a farm — told with the costs, not only the yield.
A number convinces a committee. A neighbour convinces a farmer.
A success story is the shortest useful form of evidence there is: one farmer, one plot, one change, and what came of it. The university publishes them because a practice that worked on a holding of the same size, on the same soil, three villages away, carries further than the same result reported as a mean.
They are written with what it took as well as what it gave: the input cost, the labour, the season it fitted, and what did not go to plan. A story that reports only the gain is an advertisement, and a farmer who follows it and loses a season does not come back for the next recommendation.
One farm at a time
A named practice on a real holding, with its size and soil stated.
Costs as well as gains
Inputs, labour and season written out beside the result.
Told with the farmer
Written with the household concerned and published with their consent.