Professor Lucía Antonieta Lorca, a life dedicated to Extension and Rural Development

Abstract

Between 1958 and 1963, Professor Lucía Antonieta Lorca graduated in Agronomy in Venezuela, where she specialised in Agricultural Extension and Social Sciences.
In 1966, after validating her degree in Chile, it was in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Austral University of Chile that she offered, for the first time in the country, an Agricultural Extension course with a marked emphasis on Rural Development - taking an approach on the education of the farmer, based on his needs in order to improve agriculture and the living conditions of rural people.
In 1971 ...