This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...

With the development and popularization of Internet, The research focuses on how to get the requirement quickly and exactly from a large number of information. Using ontology provides a new intelligent searching method based on Web. In this paper, According to ontology theory of agriculture's characters and combining with the major of soil and agricultural chemistry, the retrieval system took t...

iranian farmers are faced with many challenges. they must be economically efficient, produce enough food for the growing population and must be sensitive to environmental concerns. however, there is a growing concern related to the aftermath and side-effect of some agricultural activities on environment. these concerns made researches to consider agricultural activities with profound care in or...

The purpose of this Special Issue of Agricultural Systems is to lay the foundation for the next generation of agricultural systems data, models and knowledge products. In the Introduction to this Special Issue, we described a vision for accelerating the rate of agricultural innovation and meeting the growing global need for food and fiber. In this concluding article of the NextGen Special Issue...

Cadmium (Cd) has accumulated in New Zealand agricultural systems, predominantly from the application of phosphorus (P) fertiliser to soils. Elevated Cd concentrations soils are an important issue due their potential adverse effects on food quality, soil health, land use flexibility, and environment. This paper reports our current knowledge summarising published unpublished research that been un...

fr

The paper proposes an approach to transform an information based portal into a knowledge-based hub. The study is made on the Agribazaar, which is an information-based portal provided by the Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-based Industry, Malaysia. Basically, the portal has been developed to offer an internet-based commerce infrastructure for buyers and sellers of agr...

Building on farmer’s agroecological knowledge to design environmental-friendly agricultural systems is crucial given the environmental impact of industrial agriculture. We investigated the drivers of farmers’ knowledge of agrobiodiversity management and analyzed how farmers’ knowledge and their current farming contexts may guide future farming systems in sub-humid (Bassila) and semi-arid (Bouko...