objective: the world is currently facing with various problems including water and soil pollution as well as a major threat to the health of the citizens due to the advancement at human civilization, technology development, pesticides and chemical fertilizers application, the increasing exploitation of natural resources by the agricultural sector and the increasing usage of fossil energy. there...

The role of teacher education programs and the demand placed upon those programs is changing. This study sought to synthesize research related to pre-service agricultural teacher education programs in the following areas: (1) demographics of teacher educators, (2) demographics of teacher education programs, (3) responsibilities of teacher education programs, (4) student selection, (5) preservic...

The main objective in this causal-correlation field research was to identify effective factors on rural youth’s attitude towards agricultural occupation, in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. Rural youth 15-25 years old in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer- Ahmad province were the population of this study. The technique of sampling was cluster sampling. The technique of data collection is questionna...

Organic agriculture (OA) includes a comprehensive production management system that is considered as one of the strategies to reduce negative impacts of industrial agriculture in many countries. This research was identifying factors affecting the development of OA in Ardabil province. A descriptive– correlation survey approach was used in this study. Participants were agricultural specialists o...

systemized sabbatical leaves seem as an appropriate mechanism for fostering academic collaboration, improving academic capacities and developing professional capacity of faculty members in higher agricultural education system. this research was done with aim to identify and analysis expected outcomes and impacts of sabbatical leaves for professional development of agricultural faculty members. ...

Introduction India has one of the largest and most complex agricultural research systems in the world, with more than a century of organized application of science to agriculture. A proactive policy by the government toward agricultural research and education (R&E), 1 coupled with support from a number of bilateral and multilateral donors, has produced an institutionally diverse research system...

This paper studies the effects of rural infrastructure development on agricultural production technical efficiency, using data from the second agricultural census of China. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, this paper first estimates agricultural production technical efficiency of each administrative area of China. A Tobit model is then applied to study the effects on agricultural production...

WEI DING, KRISHNA N. REDDY, L. JASON KRUTZ, STEVEN J. THOMSON, YANBO HUANG, and ROBERT M. ZABLOTOWICZ Crop Production Systems Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA Northeast Agricultural University, Agronomy College, Department of Plant Protection and Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology in Chinese Ministry of Education, Harbin, ...

J.D. Hansen*, J.A. Johnson and D.A. Winter USDA-ARS Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, 5230 Konnowac Pass Road, Wapato, WA 98951, USA; USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, 9611 S. Riverbend Ave., Parlier, CA 93648, USA; Director of Regulatory Affairs, Quality and Clinical Education, University of California at San Diego Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego,...