the purpose followed in this study was to analyze barriers of agriculture biotechnology development in iran. the research method was a descriptive and correlational one. the statistical population consisted of agricultural biotechnology specialists in the tehran province of whom n=108 were taken through census method to take part in the study. finally 85 questionnaires (research instrument) wer...

Identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. For supporting sustainable agriculture in Iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. The purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. Based on the results the attending agric...

There are no known studies that have been conducted focusing on the congruency or discrepancy of pre service agricultural education programmes in relation to secondary school agriculture teaching in Zimbabwe. The purpose of this study was therefore to make a qualitative investigation on the contribution of pre service agricultural education training programmes to the teaching of high school Agr...

What Is TEEAL? In one sense, TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) is a self-contained library of the core journals in the field of agriculture. It is available at cost ONLY to research institutions in the developing countries. It is a system being produced at Mann Library at Cornell University with the cooperation of many scientific publishers, database producers and the Rockef...

in tourism, like any other service industry, the people offering service are a constituent part of the product, and their expertise, theoretical knowledge, and job skills undeniably affect the quality of services. hence, composition and implementation of human resource development strategies is of a great importance and education/training, therein, plays a major part. higher education, compared...

Numerous public and private organizations and agencies conduct adult agricultural education programs. Many of the public sector programs can be traced to the Smith-Lever and Smith-Hughes Acts enacted in 1914 and 1917, respectively, that created the Cooperative Extension System and provided federal funds for vocational-technical education in agriculture. Adult agricultural education programs tha...

This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions, and suggests major research gaps in the literature. Although growth in knowledge enables skill acquisition and specialization of labor, which generally raises labor productivity, and technical change, the dominant effect on agriculture has been technical change. A puzzle remains ...