there is undoubtedly general agreement that the efficiency of educational investments should he maximized through the managerial process as far as possible. agricultural extension is one of the crucial tasks in developing agricultural societies calling for considerable consumption of intellectual investment. the management of agricultural extension projects (aeps) however, needs careful pla...

Purpose This study aims to explore possible ways promote uptake and integration of climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-Technologies, Innovations Management Practices (TIMPS) into policy practice in Nigeria through the development actionable roadmaps facilitate process. Design/methodology/approach Two hundred fifty-two stakeholders for discourse survey were purposively drawn from both government pri...

This study was focused on extension professionals' perception of the necessary attributes for extension agents to accomplish environmentally sound agriculture in new professionalism context. A sample of 87 respondents was selected through simple random sampling technique. A survey study was applied as a methodology of research work. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that addr...

Mobile agents gained immense attraction as a new programming concept for implementing distributed applications. However, up to now mobile agent programming has been mainly technology driven, with a focus on the implementation of mobile agent platforms and only small programming applications. In this work, we present an extension of the standard UML that provides language concepts for modeling m...

Agent specialization as a concept of providing expertise closer to program delivery, was introduced by the Minnesota Cooperative Extension Service as a way to improve the county agent’s ability to work across county lines and across program lines. While the extension agent was still to be a resident community educator working with a broad range of county problems, he/she also would be expected ...

considering the importance of extension agent as the mediator between farmers and experts, and their effective role in the transfer of knowledge and technology to farmers with the aim of achieving a sustainable agriculture system, the main purpose of this research was to analysis of the affecting factors on improvement of performance of extension agent from the farmers’ viewpoint in zahak towns...

Motivation the psychological process that gives purpose, direction, and intensity to behavior is mainly responsible for differential work output and is the most important determinant of effective job performance (Kreitner, 1989; Lawler III, 1973). It changes as time and conditions change, depends on incentives that the staff value and believe to be attainable with increased individual performan...

Parikh and Krasucki [1990] showed that pairwise communication of the value of a function f leads to a consensus about the communicated value if the function f is convex. They showed that union consistency of f may not be sufficient to guarantee consensus in any communication protocol. Krasucki [1996] proved that consensus occurs for any union consistent function if the protocol contains no cycl...

The advent of computers into the Cooperative Extension System (CFS) has created a state in agents’ lives that has been termed “computer anxiety.’ Oetting (1983) defined computer anxiety as “the anxiety that people feel they will experience when they are interacting with computers-the anxiety associated with the concept of computers” (p. 1). Maurer and Simonson (1984) had a similar definition, “...

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in Iran, considered the necessity of e-learning in agricultural extension for training extension agents as human resources that are working in extension centers throughout the country and have direct interaction with farmers, because they understand that traditional education is no longer effective. As a result, understanding challenges for e-learning in Iran’s...