This research was based on primary data collected through well designed and pre-tested questionnaire, to determine awareness of farmers on extension methods used by ADP in Kano state of Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used, in which three local governments were randomly selected. Secondly, three wards one each from the selected local governments (Danbatta, Gaya and Madobi) were rando...

Household food security remains a challenge in South Africa. The national government instituted the Integrated Food Security Strategy (IFSS) programme which identifies household agricultural production as an important element of improving household-level food security. Agricultural extension is well positioned to help achieve this aim, but its current contribution is unknown. This study identif...

agricultural extension workers’ service has been placed as the central pattern of agricultural transformation in general and smallholder farmers in particular. due largely to this commensurately known trend, identifying factors that determine farmers’ access to extension workers’ service and the effect of the service on crop yield was found to be imperative. cross sectional data was collected t...

The study assessed farmers’ perception of effectiveness of agricultural extension agents in Anambra State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised all contact farmers and extension agents in Anambra State. Multi-stage, purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 200 respondents comprising 160 farmers and 40 extension agents. Data for the study were collected throu...

household food security remains a challenge in south africa. the national government instituted the integrated food security strategy (ifss) programme which identifies household agricultural production as an important element of improving household-level food security. agricultural extension is well positioned to help achieve this aim, but its current contribution is unknown. this study identif...

Dimitrios Kourtesis, Iraklis Paraskakis, Andreas Friesen, Panagiotis Gouvas, Athanasios Bouras 1 SEERC South East European Research Centre, A Research Centre of the University of Sheffield and CITY Liberal Studies Mitropoleos 17, 54624, Thessaloniki, GREECE [email protected], [email protected] 2 SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, GERMANY andreas.frie...

A cross-sectional study was undertaken to examine the aquaculture extension service in Kenya.  Primary data collected using a semi-structured questionnaire administered 292 randomly selected fish farmers and 56 officers different counties Kenya. Descriptive statistics mainly mean frequencies were computed determine key characteristics of officers. Inferential done Chi-Square test goodness ...

The type of the applications for which Internet is being used has changed over the years. Multimedia applications, Real-time applications and Game playing require Quality of service. IEEE has proposed IEEE 802.11e, a quality of service extension to the wireless LAN standard IEEE 802.11. In this paper service differentiation ability of 802.11e is evaluated. Identical traffic is considered for al...