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 main purpose of this research was to analyze agricultural water management problems (awmp) in three contexts of: water source, water conveyance and at the farm level, in zarrindasht county, fars province. the research was carried out based on a survey method with a questionnaire compiled for collection of data. questionnaire's reliability was confirmed through a computation of cronbach...

to introduce a new rice cultivar with high grain yield and desirable cooking characteristics for the warm regions of kohgilouyeh-ve-boyrahmad province, 203 lines of rice originated form irri breeding program were evaluated in preliminary and advanced yield trials from 1993 to 2000 in choram agricultural research station. in each year, data were recorded from different agronomical and morpho-phy...

katoul is a new soybeam cultivar originated from a genotype named d.p.x.3589 imported from the united states of american in 1990. this genotype was examined together with other soybean genotypes and check cultivars in different preliminary and advanced yield traits in gorgan and other research stations during 1999-2002. the mean seed yield of d.p.x.3589 in all these experiments was 3333 kgha-1 ...

northern regions of khuzestan province are suitable areas for soybean cultivation. hybridization blocks and soybean segregating generations were established in safiabad agricultural research center during 1990-1997 to produce new soybean lines which would have a high seed yield and high adaptability to the region. line l.14 selected from segregating generations of a hybridization between cultiv...

the purpose of this study was to determine the importance of eleven professional competencies related to needs assessment and program development; a secondary purpose was to identify the best time these competencies should be learned. the study followed a survey research design, in which 441 randomly selected extension educators in the north central region of the united states responded to a qu...

the study examined the utilization of information and communication technologies by agricultural extension workers in niger state, nigeria. to achieve the study objective, 206 respondents were proportionately and randomly selected from the three agricultural zones in the state through multi-stage sampling technique. validated questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.81 was used to collec...