results of an evaluation of the impact of agricultural science and technology (as and t) policy system institutions on efficiency and technical change in kenyan and ugandan agriculture are presented here. data envelopment analysis was used to derive efficiency and technical change and logistic regression applied to delineate as and t institutions that induced efficiency and technical progress. ...

This paper discusses how the theory of affordances can be used to investigate a spectrum opportunities, benefits, costs and risks is generated unevenly distributed by different kinds technology (where ‘technology’ understood as techniques, processes practices doing making, rather than technical artefacts systems). Affordances are possibilities for action, which arise from relations between huma...

We discuss recent trends in agricultural productivity Africa and highlight how technological progress agriculture has stagnated on the continent. briefly review literature that tries to explain this stagnation through lens of particular constraints technology adoption. Ultimately, none these alone can trends. New research highlights pervasive heterogeneity gross net returns technologies across ...

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...

introduction: the growth of agricultural production and natural resources are from primary objectives of any political system, because this section has a vital role in providing food security. according to the production theories, production growth will come from two sources; more use of production factors within the framework of existing technologies and second, with using more advanced and mo...

Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. 7024, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish...

To meet the need of agriculture management modernization of Heilongjiang reclamation area, further boost large-scale integration level of modern agriculture production and boost management level of agriculture production.On Red Farm, we have established the digital management network information system with the remote sensor technology, GIS technology, GPS technology, database technology, netwo...

1 Key Laboratory of Farm Animal Genetic Resources and Utilization of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 100193 Beijing, China 2 College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, 230036 Hefei, China 3 College of Animal Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, 071000 Baoding, China 4 State Key La...

The arrival of the era of third-generation (3G) mobile phone will cause earth-shaking changes, as a kind of new communication technologies will play in the fields of estimation. The rapid development of electronic technology and information technology, which had brought about a revolution of control and management of agricultural, mobile 3G era will give the agricultural revolution fueled, and ...

abstractthis study examined information flow on minisett technology among yam farmers in delta state, nigeria. a sample size of 180 respondents was involved in the study. data were obtained from respondents of the study through the use of a validated interview schedule. percentage, frequency count and mean scores were used to summarize data, while line diagrams were used to develop maps of info...