the sustainability of farming system is among the serious issues that has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. therefore, an investigation of farmers’ knowledge about sustainable agriculture is important, if sustainable development is to be achieved. the purpose of this descriptive correlational research was to determine the knowledge level of potato growers in shushtar ...

this study examined the effect of urbanization on agricultural production in abia state. specifically, it categorized the land tenancy status of the farmers, analyzed the effect of urbanization on agricultural productivity and identified the constraints to agricultural productivity. multistage random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. primary data collected using structured ...

One of the main problems of agriculture in most countries is how to ensure further increases in agricultural production to give the population better nutrition and to guarantee increasing social security to farmers and all those employed in agriculture. This occupies the farmers' minds, for it concerns their own vital interests and their position in society; at the same time it is a concern of ...

despite various efforts towards empowerment of cooperatives in iran, much in agreement with this concept and strategies can not be observed. the purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the solutions to empowering production cooperatives. the delphi technique was employed to do this study. the target population consisted of specialists in national provincial and specialists (n=15). ...

National agricultural statistical information is a product of cooperative agreements and collaboration across agencies at the state and federal levels. This allows for sharing of responsibilities for data gathering, aggregating and disseminating information, and providing services. The agencies involved in cooperative arrangements to accomplish these tasks include: US Department of Agriculture ...

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OBJECTIVE To compare published recommendations regarding biosecurity practices for various production animal species and classes. DESIGN Literature review. POPULATION Educational materials available on the World Wide Web that provided biosecurity recommendations for dairy cattle, beef cattle, small ruminant, swine, and poultry producers. PROCEDURES Web sites for national producer organiza...

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...

abstract the aim of this survey is to compare utilization systems (cooperative, private and governmental) methods of energy consumption in soybean production and the evaluation of energy inputs effect in yield of soybean in moghan. for this purpose, the information were collected from 54 private farmers, 14 cooperative members farmers and 14 agro-industry units by questionnaire method. the maxi...

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...