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...

In order to overcome the disadvantages of inconvenience and low accuracy of keywords spitting search, and artificial answer delay for the online messages in the current agricultural consulting system, this paper proposes a solution which complement the advantages of automatic question answer with expert real-time answer. Firstly, vector space model was improved by semantic extension and feature...

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...

the undesirable negative consequences of conventional farming have lead to the need and emphasis for new sustainable agricultural production techniques. organic farming has arisen to be considered as one of the sustainable agricultural systems. agricultural experts play an important role in extension and spread of the system. the research goal is to investigate the effective factors on expert&a...

Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative value chain mapping methodology was used to explo...