the aim of the study was to determine the farmer's behavior in adoption of ipm technologies in rice growing fields. a questionnaire was employed as the tool of survey. population of the study consisted of the farmers taking apart in ipm/ffs participant groups in gilan and mazandaran provinces each with 3 years of experience in ipm. from among them, 305 were selected as the research sample....

"It is not as if he was of us", said the adoptive mother. "One can understand one's own flesh and blood". What were the fears, disappointments and misunderstandings that underlay that remark? My work as a Psychiatric Social Worker involves interviewing parents of children attending the clinic and, during the last three years, remarks, such as that quoted, drew my attention to the special proble...

though beekeeping is a common farming enterprise and income generating activity in atsbi wemberta district, and promotional efforts have been made to improve it, no systematic study has been undertaken to evaluate the promotional efforts and people’s response to it. the objectives of this study were to identify determinants of improved box hive adoption by the beekeepers; and to analyze financi...

The study was conducted in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The major thrust of this study is to assess the adoption rate of technology in Fadama III project, Adamawa State, Nigeria. Fadama III is being implemented in 20 Local Government Areas (LGA) of Adamawa State. In its four years of operation, Fadama III project has realized significant impact on household access to new and proven technologies. The...

The poor performance of fishery subsector is most clearly evidenced by low adoption of fishery production technologies by farmers. The purpose of this research was analyzing influence of socio-economic factors on the adoption of fish production technologies by community-based farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria. A Multistage random sampling technique was used in selecting 60 community-based f...

the present study was undertaken on 125 broiler farmers randomly selected from five districts, hisar, jind, fatehabad, sirsa and bhiwani of hisar division of haryana to assess extent of adoption of various scientific practices by the broiler farmers. the package of practices recommended by regional state agricultural university was adopted as the set of scientific practices. the information was...

among the agricultural crops, rice has had the largest share in pesticide use. most of the croplosses are caused by the attack of chilo suppressalis. the purpose of this study was toexamine effective factors on adoption of biological control by farmers in talesh region ofiran. a survey study was conducted using a stratified random sampling to collect data fromfarmers in the selected rural areas...