Capacity is the maximum amount that something can contain or the amount of something can produces.but since here we are dealing with the building farm capacity the farmer needs the capacity to manage their farm enterprise and manage the social and natural environment in which their farming enterprise operates. We have five factors that needs to be maintained in order to get what you want structure, systems, knowledge, skills and opportunities of any of this are lacking, the capacity is lacking.
Building farm capacity is important to both farmers and extension workers. Making extension workers effective in helping poor farmers. Their mandate is to facilitate farmers learning and decisions making regard change to farming systems include trying of new technology and overcoming problems. Both farmers and extension workers are able to gain knowledge,skills , good relationships , communication and experience.