SYMPOSIUM: EXTENSION ECONOMICS IN AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES (I)

Extension and Advisory Services Rural Extension Services for Agricultural Transformation

Accuracy of Extension Professionals’ and Farmers’ Perceptions regarding Privatization and Commercialization of Agricultural Extension Services

This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...

Analysis of farm management extension services performed by extension agents of Agricultural Development Projects in Southwest Nigeria

The study analyzed farm management extension services (FMESs) performed by the extension agents of Agricultural Development Projects in South West Nigeria. Study representatives were sampled randomly from Oyo ADP, Osun ADP and Ekiti ADP, making a 50% representation of the South-West. A proportionate sample of 80% of the total of the extension agents in each of the 3 case studies was randomly se...

Financing Agricultural Economics Research and Extension in the Southern Region

Each year, heads of agricultural economics as the number of SY's in the biological and departments meet to discuss mutual issues physical sciences in 1940-41, but the proporrelated to our teaching, extension, and retion was only 10.8 percent in 1970-71. search programs. A major continuing issue is Halvorson [1, p. 18] summarized his concerns our portion of research and extension fundsabout the ...

Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Agricultural Training and Demonstration in Ethiopia: Implications for Inclusive Targeting by Agricultural Extension Services

Small farms and smallholder farming systems play crucial roles in agricultural development in many developing countries. From the various rural development programs designed to support such farming systems, agricultural extension services are of at most importance. However, the benefit that farmers obtain from these services and the resulting impact depends, to a great extent, by their direct a...