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Teaching a skill fabrication of carts and other designs, poultry involves not only rearing, dairy, all vocations and manufacture. long training periods but also the recipient has Here, teaching a skill involves not only long to learn how training periods but also the recipient has to learn to tackle change how to tackle change, from the conditions during , from the training. He must learn how to manage people, conditions money and materials. This becomes important or during training. even critical. Such training can only be given as building up on an existing level of skill. Those who have some successful practice in one skill, can be given a skill a step higher in sophistication, but rarely can it be given on a raw base. The common requirements for both products and processes are: 1. To know and define the target group - its needs, environment, and level of skills 2. Whether communications reach them and how they perceive it 3. Feedback from the use of the product/process is most important during the development stage itself. Development is not complete until the feedback is incorporated. 4. Follow-up services, distribution and maintenance for products; commissioning and quality control for processes. 5. Proper economic costing and comparison for alternatives/competition. 6. Market/field test in real life economic situation. 7. Complete documentation, defining the product:- user, use method and performance. For processes:- raw material, product and process specifications, economic parameters, fault finding manual, sensitivity to variables etc. Our Common Failures: 1. Target group is not defined properly. < Rural Development Through Education System 199