The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in theagricultural advisory services companies. The main instrument to collect the data was questionnaire and itsvalidity of questionnaire is confirmed by experts and its reliability is measured through Cronbach’s alpha(75%). The data were analyzed by SPSS software version 16. The finding showed that ...

agribusinesses, especially agricultural industries play important role as driving force for agricultural growth. however, these industries have not experienced appropriate growth and have not derived agricultural development, particularly through providing more remunerative markets for small farmers. the main purpose of this qualitative study was to achieve a deep understanding about obstacles ...

This is the first of two articles on the steepening challenges which confront global agriculture, food security and hence nutrition and population health. The recent deterioration in global food security has caught most experts by surprise. While the Asia Pacific region as a whole has so far fared reasonably well, there should be no complacency about medium to long term food security in the reg...

There is a need to validate existing global cropland maps since they are used for different purposes including agricultural monitoring and assessment. In this paper we validate three recent global products (ESA-CCI, GlobeLand30, FROM-GC) and one regional product (Tanzania Land Cover 2010 Scheme II) using a validation data set that was collected by students through the Geo-Wiki tool. The ultimat...

introduction: studies about channels and marketing chains of agricultural products since 1990s are growing as one of the scientific and academic field. economists, sociologists and experts of management course had participated in description and study of these cycles of agricultural production marketing. inter organization relations is new phase of marketing that emphasis on assistance and part...

Different parts of the country have recently witnessed a large number of suicide deaths by the farmers who found themselves in extreme distress. A variety of factors are held as responsible for the farmers’ suicides which includes a) adverse seasonal conditions, b) lack of irrigation facilities, c) massive pest attack, d) wrong agricultural practices and failure of extension services: excessive...

the purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in theagricultural advisory services companies. the main instrument to collect the data was questionnaire and itsvalidity of questionnaire is confirmed by experts and its reliability is measured through cronbach’s alpha(75%). the data were analyzed by spss software version 16. the finding showed that ...

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...