1. This document is SS-ORH-02, a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date: July 1992. Revised: July 2000. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Timothy K. Broschat, Professor; Ft. Lauderdale-REC, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Cooperative Extensio...

The study examines production efficiency of farmers under National Fadama-II Project in Oyo State Nigeria. Primary data were collected from two hundred and sixty-four farmers using multistage sampling technique. The analytical framework used for the study include: descriptive, infrastructure index, gross margin and stochastic frontier production function. Average infrastructural index in the ar...

2. Roy P.E. Yanong, associate professor, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL 33570-3434; and Ruth Francis-Floyd, professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (College of Veterinary Medicine) and Department of Fisheries and Aq...

The present study was carried out in the rice-wheat area of Pakistani Punjab. The data for the study was collected from three main districts of central Punjab Province i.e. Gujranwala, Sheikhupura and Hafizabad. In total 234 farmers were interviewed. The impact of agricultural extension services was estimated on adoption of new improved technologies and crop yields. The propensity score matchin...

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With the change of the pattern of agricultural science and technology extension system gradually, the construction of the main body of China's agricultural science and technology extension services is more and more important. The paper analyzes the problems of the main body of China's agricultural science and technology extension services, and gives us the proposals: cultivating diverse main bo...

Investment in research is indeed a "rational" investment. Thesis issues and projects in highereducation are the sources of research at educational institutions and have an evident role in helpingprofessionals and researchers. However, lack of fit scientific methods along with the ignorance ofthe proper processes of science has somewhat diminished the importance of research. This studypoints out...

in spite of 60 years of past experience, agricultural extension in iran still faces problems, obstacles and limitations. researchers believe that during these years, the service available to farmers has been neither successful nor satisfactory. with respect to the presently available problems and limitations, a thorough identification and analysis of these issues is necessary as well as inevita...