the main purpose followed in the ongoing research was to investigate the role of the extension factors (experience of familiarity with agricultural extension services, participation of paddy farmers in extension - educational courses, their participation in farmer field school (ffs) programs, and their number of extension contacts regarding ipm) in the adoption of ipm technology among paddy far...

This study is aimed at evaluating and measuring the factors affecting the Dezful wheat farmers` attitude toward the extension of wheat waste reduction. The method of research was correlative- descriptive. The population of this study is all farmers cultivated wheat in Dezful from 2011 to 2012 (n=5291). The Number of samples size was 360 based on Krejcie and Morgan table. Panel of experts and Al...

research was conducted during 1999 to 2009 to develop and introduce a new common millet (panicum miliaceum) cultivar suitable for areas with short growing seasons in iran. several common millet populations collected from different locations of iran were evaluated in research farm of seed and plant improvement institute in karaj and based on yield, agronomic traits and tolerance to abiotic stres...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the economic efficiency of investment in sugar beet breeding research in iran. the required information including the value and cost of sugar beet production in 2010 and the budget allocated to the sugar beet breeding research were obtained from the office of statistics and information technology of ministry of jihad-e-agriculture and agricult...

some parts of semitropical regions in khouzestan, fars, kohgiloyieh-va-boyrahmad, lorestan, golestan, ardabil, kermanshah and boushehr provinces specified to spring barley cultivation which local or a few improved cultivars are grown there. barley breeding activities in dryland agricultural research institute(dari) are continuously undertaken in gachsaran, kouhdasht, gonbad and moghan to introd...

Farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. Yet, they lack adequate and needed information. Hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. Primary data were collected to elicit infor...

agricultural extension is a client-oriented service the effectiveness and efficiency of which depends on the clientele’s satisfaction. extension agents’ performance is one of the indices of extension services' performance. extension agents’ performance has been assessed in different such ways as: study of their supervisors’ view points, study of agents’ themselves reports and as well study...