PROPOSED EXTENSION PROGRAM FOR CONSERVING AGRICULTURAL LANDS FROM DESERTIFICATION IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE برنامج إرشادی مقترح للمحافظة على الأراضی الزراعیة من التصحر بمحافظة شمال سیناء

Dry Lands and Desertification

Bacterial Pollution in Runoff from Agricultural Lands

A review of the literature reporting the methods and results of studies concerned with the nature of nonpoint source microbial pollution leads to several conclusions: (i) Comparison f data from different studies may be complicated by variation in the choice of indicator organisms, variation in watershed size and homogeneity, and variation in media and procedures for determining fecal streptococ...

Assessing the Process of Extension Program Development in Iranian Agricultural Extension System

The purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in Iranian Agricultural Extension System (IAES). The research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and Cranach’s alpha test, respectively. The target population of this research included all extension managers...

Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China

Over the past several thousand years, arid and semiarid China has experienced a series of asynchronous desertification events in its semiarid sandy and desert regions, but the precise identification of the driving forces of such events has remained elusive. In this paper we identify two rapid desertification events (RDEs) at ~4.6 ± 0.2 ka BP and ~3.3 ± 0.2 ka BP from the JJ Profile, located in ...

Promoting Organizational Entrepreneurship in Iran: Evidences From Agricultural Extension Workers

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) in Organizational Entrepreneurship (OE) among agriculture extension workers at Kermanshah Township, Iran. The statistical population in this study consisted of all agriculture extension workers of Jihad-e-Agriculture management and centers of agricultural services at Kermanshah Township (N=143), of whom 129 ...