The project was undertaken to study the evaluation of effectiveness of crop advisory services and suggested measures for filling the gap in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra in India. The survey was carried out in 2010. The data was collected with the help of a specifically designed and pre-tested questionnaire. The project carried out in catchment area of advisory services has given substanti...

Globally, ministries of agriculture, universities, and the private sector employ more than 600,000 extension agents (Swanson, Farmer, and Bahal 1990). In the past, extension services, largely public, were equated with the transfer of agricultural production technology in pre-determined “packages”. Extension systems are now understood to be much broader and more diverse, including public and pri...

The agricultural information resources is an important data assets, how to rationally plan, share and use of distributed storage of agricultural information resources, efficiently develop agricultural information resources, is the important issue of agricultural information resources needed to resolve. Based on the fully research on the current status of agricultural information systems, manage...

in metropolitan development management, quality of public services is influential in every public sector to satisfaction of citizens on quality of services. nowadays, satisfaction are with such important matters that should be considered in the planning, implementation, management and maintenance of many public services such as subway, transportation, traffics, parks, markets and so on. the pur...

The present study was carried out in the rice-wheat area of Pakistani Punjab. The data for the study was collected from three main districts of central Punjab Province i.e. Gujranwala, Sheikhupura and Hafizabad. In total 234 farmers were interviewed. The impact of agricultural extension services was estimated on adoption of new improved technologies and crop yields. The propensity score matchin...

Extension and advisory services are integral to the AIS, where now more than ever they play a brokering role, linking key actors such as producer organizations, research services, and higher education. This module looks at the history and current status of extension and advisory services and examines important topics such as pluralism, new roles for extension, new kinds of service providers, IC...

During the discussion, the important role of agriculture as a major provider of environmental services also emerged, with participants pointing to its important role in sequestering carbon, managing watersheds and preserving biodiversity. Conversely, it was pointed out that agriculture is also a major consumer of natural resources and that sustainable About this online discussion This document ...