The forty-year history of agricultural production co-operatives in Iran shows that this type of exploitation system has faced with many challenges during this period. First, despite the help and support by the government, the co-operative sector has not been able to play a major role in the development of the country, and its share has not exceeded 3% of the development program. The Purpose of ...

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...

An exploratory analysis of an innovative open online courses was conducted on data from discussion threads in order to identify potentially useful evidence of productive student engagement. Social network analysis was used to identify patterns of interaction and engagement between types of users. The graphical representations of these interactions were used to identify central actors within the...

This study aims at empirically measuring a universal criterion for materials evaluation, i.e., learning opportunities, in a locally- and a globally-designed materials. Adopting the conceptual framework of sociocultural theory and its conceptualization of learning as participation (Donato, 2000), the researchers utilized the methodological power of conversation analysis to examine how opportunit...

This study aimed to determine the Knowledge of Agricultural Extension Workers regarding Sustainable practice (SAP) in Some areas Sulaimani Governorate, then find differences total mean sustainable knowledge according some variables. The questionnaire was prepared for this purpose consists two parts, first part included several questions related independent variables, while second items identify...