this paper aims at analyzing farmers’ responses on quality of agricultural information services provided by public and private sources. the study is based on primary survey of 461 farmers in eight districts of uttar pradesh, india, using a structured questionnaire. farmers’ responses on quality of agricultural information services from public and private sources were analyzed using analysis of ...

investing in research and development spending (r&d) affects total factor productivity (tfp).recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized the relationship between r&d and tfpand also identified a number of channels through which a country’s r&d affects tfp of its tradepartner. this study seeks to estimate the effect of agricultural r&d and education spending and some...

H. DARMANI KUHI , E. KEBREAB *, S. LOPEZ 3 AND J. FRANCE 4 1Animal Sciences Group, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilam, Ilam 69315/516, Iran 2National Centre for Livestock and Environment, Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad de León, E-24007 León, Spain 4Centre for Nutrition Modelling, Departme...

Lampe, M. von, Willenbockel, D., Ahammad, H., Blanc, E., Cai, Y., Calvin, K., Fujimori, S., Hasegawa, T., Havlik, P., Heyhoe, E., Kyle, P., Lotze-Campen, H., Mason d'Croz, D., Nelson, G. C., Sands, R. D., Schmitz, C., Tabeau, A, Valin, H., Mensbrugghe, D. van der, Meijl, H. van (2014): Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP Global Economic Model Inter...

Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Jaboticabal, SP 14884-900, Brazil The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food innovation, Centre for Animal Science, Brisbane, Qld 4062, Australia CSIRO Food Futures Flagship and Animal, Health and Food Sciences, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia Faculdade de Medicina Vete...

RUPERT A. COLLINS1∗ AND ROBERT H. CRUICKSHANK2 1Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. Rodrigo Otávio, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil and 2Department of Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Canterbury, New Zealand ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Fed...

Developments in electronic communications have created many new uses for the letter “e”—“e-commerce,” “e-learning,” “e-governance,” and so forth. These terms point to some of the ways in which modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing how millions of people work and live. Against that background, it makes sense for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (...

Real-time Control of Pig Growth through an Integrated Management System D. J. Parsons, D. M. Green, C. P. Schofield, C. T. Whittemore 1 Cranfield University, Building 42, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, UK; e-mail of corresponding author: [email protected] 2 University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; e-mail: darren.green@zoology...