The benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for agricultural extension purposes and activities are obvious. The main objective of this article is to identify encouraging and discouraging factors in application of ICTs in agricultural extension in Isfahan province of Iran. This study investigated areas of ICTs application by Extension Workers (EWs), too. The research design...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of entrepreneurship on organizational outcomes agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. this paper aimed to identify the key dimensions of entrepreneurship and determine how these dimensions influence the outcomes of agricultural extension organizations in the context of agricultural sustainable dev...

1. This document is Fact Sheet FA-148, one of a series, Candidate Species for Florida Aquaculture, http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_SERIES_Candidate_Species, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date May 2007. Reviewed August 2010. Visit the EDIS Web Site at htt...

diversity, accessibility and reliability are the three main factors governing the adoption of information sources by farmers in rural areas. based on the research hypothesis, the existing knowledge and information delivery system in the agricultural sector, functions far below the ever changing nature and tangible needs of existing farming systems. the main objective in this study is to determi...

Climate change represents the major challenge to Sudan agricultural production, economics and food security. Changes in temperature, rainfalls, water availability, increased outbreak of pest and diseases, land degradation, soil erosion, shrinking of grazing and cultivate areas, ongoing desertification and the other aspects of climate change have direct significant impact on agricultural product...

the main objective of present paper was to study the validity of agricultural extension indices for ranking iranian provinces in terms of extension and education activities. the study was carried out in two phases. in phase one through review of literature, 137 extension-education indices were identified. the indices were classified in seven fields as following: 1) indices of extension workers,...

the undesirable negative consequences of conventional farming have lead to the need and emphasis for new sustainable agricultural production techniques. organic farming has arisen to be considered as one of the sustainable agricultural systems. agricultural experts play an important role in extension and spread of the system. the research goal is to investigate the effective factors on expert&a...

1. This document is FA145, one of a series of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. First published: March 2007. Reviewed March 2011. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu 2. Richard D. Miles is Professor, Department of Animal Sciences; and Frank A. Chapman ...

The study was carried out to assess the implication of the use of selected Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for extension service delivery in Nigeria. The simple random technique was used to select fifty percent of the total extension agents which equivalent to forty-two respondents as sample size for the study. Frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation were us...