Food composition tables available in many countries can help field workers identify good, local sources of nutrientrich foods. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s website (www.fao.org/infoods) lists countries or regions with food composition tables. The nutrient content of specific quantities of most foods can be calculated using the nutrient database on the United States Department of Agri...

Much of the United States is urbanizing, increasing importance developing Extension programs geared toward urban audiences. There has been an interest in agriculture (UA) recent years as outgrowth “local food” movement. The COVID-19 pandemic increased awareness food system resilience, which can play a role. Developing specifically targeted to farming clientele bolster Cooperative Extension’s ro...

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources traces its history to 1869 when the University was designated as Tennessee's Federal Land-Grant Institution . Under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act, the University was enabled for the first time to offer instruction in agriculture . This later was expanded to include research for the development of new knowledge and extension for di...

Unsustainable agricultural development has an impact on land damage, decreased water quality, increased critical and it is hoped that agriculture will transform towards sustainable agriculture. Sustainable considers economic, ecological social dimensions, so can be enjoyed by current future generations. requires human resources as agents of change. The existence Vocational High Schools in a sub...

this paper aims at analyzing farmers’ responses on quality of agricultural information services provided by public and private sources. the study is based on primary survey of 461 farmers in eight districts of uttar pradesh, india, using a structured questionnaire. farmers’ responses on quality of agricultural information services from public and private sources were analyzed using analysis of ...

Lebong including rice-producing areas, but this commodity is mostly newly cultivated one plant in year. The purpose of study was to develop a strategy for increasing the rice cropping index (CI) Regency. This research conducted month January 2019 s / d February by method FGD and interviews with Department Agriculture, extension workers, farmers, village heads Babinsa . activities identify inter...

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...