Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Andrew G. Hashimoto, Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. An equal opportunity/affirmative action inst...

agricultural extension workers’ service has been placed as the central pattern of agricultural transformation in general and smallholder farmers in particular. due largely to this commensurately known trend, identifying factors that determine farmers’ access to extension workers’ service and the effect of the service on crop yield was found to be imperative. cross sectional data was collected t...

The present study was carried out in the rice-wheat area of Pakistani Punjab. The data for the study was collected from three main districts of central Punjab Province i.e. Gujranwala, Sheikhupura and Hafizabad. In total 234 farmers were interviewed. The impact of agricultural extension services was estimated on adoption of new improved technologies and crop yields. The propensity score matchin...

the benefits of information and communication technologies (icts) for agricultural extension purposes and activities are obvious. the main objective of this article is to identify encouraging and discouraging factors in application of icts in agricultural extension in isfahan province of iran. this study investigated areas of icts application by extension workers (ews), too. the research design...

this study was conducted to investigate the relationship of quality of working life and organizational commitment of agricultural extension experts’ in kerman province, iran. correlational-descriptive research method was used in this study. research sample including 123 experts were selected from 180 ones in kerman agricultural extension sector using krejcie & morgan’s table and proportional st...

With the change of the pattern of agricultural science and technology extension system gradually, the construction of the main body of China's agricultural science and technology extension services is more and more important. The paper analyzes the problems of the main body of China's agricultural science and technology extension services, and gives us the proposals: cultivating diverse main bo...

the statistical population of this study was agricultural extension agents. sampling method was stratified random sampling and questionnaire used as research instrument, its validity achieved by a group of experts of icts and agricultural extension and education and reliability was 0.76 that was estimated by cronbach’s alpha. extension agents with scores lower than 47 considered in negative att...