The purpose of this study was investigation of East Azerbaijan researchers and extension agents’ view about the role of extension services on agricultural development. The methodology was descriptive-correlation which is carried out by survey method. In this study, the sample population was 335 people including all researchers and extension agents working in the agricultural sector. To assess t...

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...

agriculture in the kingdom of saudi arabia has witnessed many phases, from ancient small-scale bedouin nomadic subsistence agriculture to mass-scale farming to ensure food security and self-sufficiency, to the present-day desire for sustainability. these transitions have made the work of extension staff very challenging. effective extension work depends upon competent and well-trained agricultu...

The general purpose of this article is to identify the influencing factors on rural women participation inagricultural extension programs in Mazandaran Province. Therefore, using multi-stage sampling, 300 ruralwomen were selected randomly. The research instrument was a semi-structured questionnaire. Results showthat rural women participation in agricultural extension programs is at average leve...

In recent decades, extreme storm events due to climate change have frequently occurred worldwide, a few of which even consecutively; we class such rainfall as mega events. That is say, if the inter-arrival time between with 100-year frequency less than IETD (Inter-Event Time Definition), event can be considered event. Therefore, aim this study was implement flood inundation analysis using hypot...

the study sought to explore approaches for co-creation of conservation agriculture (ca) knowledge amongst farmers, nongovernmental organizations (ngos), government and specialist researchers. the aim of the study was to explore farmer initiated food security strategies among small holder resource poor farmers, through enhancement of farmers’ own productive capacity. the study was born out of th...