introduction the agricultural sector has always been the focal point of attentions in rural development. if we are convinced that agriculture plays a pivotal role in rural development, human resources are therefore the key elements to reach the goal of development. among the valuable resources in agricultural discipline, are the graduated students of factures of agriculture across the country. ...

Current technologies for Web Services are based on syntactical descriptions and, therefore, lend themselves to only limited amount of automation. Research efforts in Semantic Web Services, such as WSMO, try to overcome this major deficiency by providing a complete semantic description for Web Services and their related aspects. In this paper we present a logical framework which exploits such fo...

An increasing number of data delivery and processing services are available online from different environmental information systems. However, these services are often described using different terminology and may therefore be difficult to find. Integrating services from multiple providers and combining services into a workflow is likewise complicated. Development of an interoperable environment...

A research can also reveal the cooperative effectiveness of agencies such as evaluation will lead to discover the weakness and strengths for further improvement of this program. The present study was designed in 2009 especially to see the effectiveness of the working of agricultural extension staff as perceived by farmers in district Okara-Pakistan. The data were collected with the help of a sp...

the purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in iranian agricultural extension system (iaes). the research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and cranach’s alpha test, respectively. the target population of this research included all extension managers...

This study explores the effect of Extension program area on perceptions clientele regarding their overall satisfaction and benefits services provided by Extension. Written Mallory L. Cotter Glenn D. Israel, published UF/IFAS Department Agricultural Education Communication; 5 pp.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc396

the state agricultural extension system (saes) due to serious limitations of finance, equipment and staff could not meet all the expectation of the farmers. use of unemployed young graduates' services as consultant, farm manager or farm supervisor has been considered as a solution to the problem and as an alternative, in recent years. this research was aimed at an evaluation of the extensi...

The agricultural extension service in Sri Lanka is generally considered as supply driven, and limitedly focused on farmers’ aspirations and needs. The state services are also said to be inefficient and operating at a high cost. From the farmers’ point of view it is an incomplete service provider. This has increased attention towards the potential for privatization of agricultural extension serv...

The major purpose of this chapter is to explore the options of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to complement conventional agricultural extension services in Tanzania. Group discussions and meetings were conducted to investigate the role of ICTs in extension services delivery using CATWOE framework of Soft Systems Methodology. The findings of the study reveal that the use of SS...

Globally, ministries of agriculture, universities, and the private sector employ more than 600,000 extension agents (Swanson, Farmer, and Bahal 1990). In the past, extension services, largely public, were equated with the transfer of agricultural production technology in pre-determined “packages”. Extension systems are now understood to be much broader and more diverse, including public and pri...