The study was a descriptive survey, designed to determine the graduates' perceptions of the diploma in agricultural education courses offered at the Botswana College of Agriculture. The specific objectives were to: (I) determine the perceived usefulness of the courses taught at the college for teaching agricultural science, (2) determine the perceptions of the graduates about the relevance of p...

This study examined the training needs of agricultural extension agents in Delta State, Nigeria. A sample of 102 respondents was drawn from extension agents in the States’ Agricultural Development Programme (ADP), Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MANR) and the FADAMA Programme. Data were collected in February 2017 by using a structured and validated questionnaire. Data generated w...

1 Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, 5230 Wapato, WA, USA 2 Entomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA 3 Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory, Washington State University, Richland, WA, USA 4 Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA 5 Wes...

1 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, National Horticultural Research Center, P. O. Box 01000 220, Thika. 2 Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 3 Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 4 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Biotechnology Cen...

Agro-Engineering Center, Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Ctra. de Moncada a Náquera km. 4.5; Moncada 46113, Valencia, Spain † Entomology Associated Unit IVIA/CIB CSIC, Plant Protection and Biotechnology Center, Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Ctra. de Moncada a Náquera km. 4.5; Moncada 46113, Valencia, Spain †† Martinavarro S.A., Avda. al Grao, 12, Al...

J.D. Hansen*, J.A. Johnson and D.A. Winter USDA-ARS Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, 5230 Konnowac Pass Road, Wapato, WA 98951, USA; USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, 9611 S. Riverbend Ave., Parlier, CA 93648, USA; Director of Regulatory Affairs, Quality and Clinical Education, University of California at San Diego Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego,...

Z. E. Kayler, M. Kaiser, A. Gessler, R. H. Ellerbrock, and M. Sommer Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalderstr. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany University of California – Merced, 4225 N. Hospital Road, Atwater 95301, California, USA Institute of Soil Landscape Research, Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZAL...

Hiroaki KITAZAWA*, Naoko HASEGAWA, Masayasu NAGATA, Machiko FUKUDA, Shin-ichi WATANABE, Atsushi YAMASAKI, Atsuko URAGAMI Food Engineering Division, National Food Research Institute, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan Vegetable Production Technology Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsukuba, Japan Horticulture Research Division, NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Kurume, Ja...

*Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Center of Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB) and †Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Abteilung Molekulare Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; and ‡Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Otto Warburg Minerva Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality...

Moshe Lapidot, Department of Virology, Ilan Paran, Department of Plant Genetics, and Rachel Ben-Joseph, Department of Virology, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel; Serge Ben-Harush, Hazera Seed Company Kiryat Gat, Israel; and Meir Pilowsky, Department of Plant Genetics, Shlomo Cohen, Department of Virology, and Chen Shifriss, Department of Plant Gene...