agriculture sector in iran and some other countries of the world has a vital role in national development. animal husbandry sub-sector needed meat of the society, creating related jobs and producing raw materials of some industries. acquiring scientific and sound information of the current situation of regions are important and imitative step in improvement program planning. the purpose of this...

To meet the growing food demand of Bangladesh requires efficiently use of inputs and effectively manage of production practices at the farm level. Thus, the present study aims to measure the technical efficiency and establish core factors affecting boro and aman rice production in Bangladesh. The study employed mainly farm level data collected from 80 farm households selected randomly in Dinajp...

Rural women play a significant role in domestic and socio-economic life of the society so that national development is not possible without developing this important and substantial segment of our society. Given the importance of women in agriculture, this study was conducted to examine the role of Iranian women in the farm management decision-making processed concerning animal husbandry. The s...

The 1992 public information campaign, Safe Farm, made farm safety messages available to a diverse and independent target audience of 104,000 full-time and parttime Iowa farm operators and their families. The print portion of the campaign reached 5.03 million Iowa newspaper subscribers. A series of public service announcements received at least 180 h of air time on more than 100 Iowa radio stati...

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...

This paper considers the potential problems that may militate against the adoption of organic poultry production in Nigeria. Factors identified include: higher risk of diseases like coccidiosis and Newcastle disease, disease prevention and control / herd health management, disease containment in times of outbreak, land acquisition (land tenure system), market economies / cost-benefit ratio, pas...

Relationship between public and private sector is becoming an increasingly important issue in management of agricultural extension services. The need for a strong linkage could be identified as the gap between desirable and current situation. In this research, the differences among current and desirable situation in six diverse dimensions was calculated. The current and desirable situation was ...

Xanthomonas wilt of enset is a major bacterial disease affecting the entire enset-growing belt in southern Ethiopian highlands, impacting food security and livelihoods small-holder subsistence farmers. Through extensive interviews field validation visits with 354 households covering 19 communities (kebeles), we show 70% farms to present current past infections, median 18% cumulative plant loss ...

the main purpose of this research was to analyze agricultural water management problems (awmp) in three contexts of: water source, water conveyance and at the farm level, in zarrindasht county, fars province. the research was carried out based on a survey method with a questionnaire compiled for collection of data. questionnaire's reliability was confirmed through a computation of cronbach...