Thinking and Suggestion of Creating “Internet +” Agriculture to Promote Agricultural Supply Side Reform by Agricultural Standardization Means

Projecting iranian agricultural demand and supply

Use of Computer and Internet in Agricultural Extension as perceived by Extension Workers

The purpose of this study was to determine computer and Internet use in agricultural extension by Extension Workers (EWs). This study used a descriptive-correlational design.Population for the study consisted of all extension workers (N= 320) in Isfahan Province, Iran. A stratified sampling technique and census was used to select EWs (n = 200). Overall, findings indicate that EWs have access to...

Agricultural Employment through the Removal of Barriers of Agricultural Products Supply To Commodity Exchanges (A Case of Khorasan Rezavi Province)

       Creating full employment is one of the macroeconomic goals of politicians in all countries. Unemployment is one of the major problems facing the Iranian economy, which its reduction, requires investment in various sectors of the economy and production boom. Improving the marketing situation of agricultural products can boost production, increase income and employment in agriculture. An a...

Agents Adopting Agriculture: Modeling the Agricultural Transition

The question “What drove foragers to farm?” has drawn answers from many different disciplines, often in the form of verbal models. Here, we take one such model, that of the ideal free distribution, and implement it as an agent-based computer simulation. Populations distribute themselves according to the marginal quality of different habitats, predicting settlement patterns and subsistence metho...

Agricultural supply response and poverty in Mozambique

This paper identifies the key causal factors behind farmers’ marketing decisions in Mozambique. A two-step decision making process is modelled. Farmers decide, first, whether or not to participate in the market and, second, how much to market. The model is estimated using a Heckman switching regression approach. Marginal effects are calculated for the poor and the nonpoor and broken down into a...