Maine Agricultural Center Integrated Research and Extension Projects : 2011 – 2012

Maine Agricultural Center Integrated Research and Extension Grant Proposals

Rice Farmers’ Behaviors and Attitudes toward Agricultural Extension Programs in Healthy Food Production (Case of Lahijan and Amlash Counties, Northern Iran)

This study­aimed to explain thebehavior and attitudes of farmersin the adoption ofIntegrated Pest­­­Management (IPM) technologiesinrice fields. The main instrument ofresearch was a questionnaire whose validitywas confirmed bya panel of professorsandexecutive experts, and its reliabilitywas confirmed by apreliminarytest.The sample employed inthe research study comprisedfarmers who were participa...

ICTs for Agricultural Extension in India: Policy Implications for Developing Countries

ICTs are changing all the spheres of human lives. Hence, it is a popular belief that, agricultural extension also no exception to this. It is also expected that the ICT led extension systems are going to act as a key agent for changing agrarian situation and farmers’ lives by improving access to information and sharing knowledge. Hence, renewed enthusiasm to use new ICTs for agricultural adviso...

Big interdisciplinarity to address climate change and agriculture: Lessons from three USDA Coordinated Agricultural Projects

Sanford D. Eigenbrode is a professor of entomology and director of Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Lois Wright Morton is a professor of sociology and director of Climate and Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Timothy...

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...