National agricultural statistical information is a product of cooperative agreements and collaboration across agencies at the state and federal levels. This allows for sharing of responsibilities for data gathering, aggregating and disseminating information, and providing services. The agencies involved in cooperative arrangements to accomplish these tasks include: US Department of Agriculture ...

Globalization and growing competition have accelerated the need for knowledge intensive work performance in all the sectors of economy. In the agriculture sector constant application of latest ideas and better work technologies is essential to enhance productivity in the interest of economic well being of farmers and for ensuring food security. The current models of agriculture knowledge transf...

Introduction Much of the early development and diffusion of sustainable agriculture information has occurred outside of traditional avenues for agricultural information exchange. Studies have shown that farmers engaged in sustainable agriculture obtain most of their information on sustainable practices predominately from other farmers, followed by private non-profits, other educational organiza...

The present study was launched in two districts of NWFP namely Peshawar and Nowshera during 2007-08. Forty agricultural extension agents were interviewed through face to face interview schedule. The main objectives of the study were to identify the challenges, constraints, problems and shortcoming faced by extension agents engaged in disseminating the latest agriculture technology and to make p...

The benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for agricultural extension purposes and activities are obvious. The main objective of this article is to identify encouraging and discouraging factors in application of ICTs in agricultural extension in Isfahan province of Iran. This study investigated areas of ICTs application by Extension Workers (EWs), too. The research design...

The major purpose of this chapter is to explore the options of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to complement conventional agricultural extension services in Tanzania. Group discussions and meetings were conducted to investigate the role of ICTs in extension services delivery using CATWOE framework of Soft Systems Methodology. The findings of the study reveal that the use of SS...

a research can also reveal the cooperative effectiveness of agencies such as evaluation will lead to discover the weakness and strengths for further improvement of this program. the present study was designed in 2009 especially to see the effectiveness of the working of agricultural extension staff as perceived by farmers in district okara-pakistan. the data were collected with the help of a sp...

Arbindra Rimal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Agribusiness, Southwest Missouri State University. Tommy Perkins is Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Animal Science, Southwest Missouri State University. Joe C. Paschal is Professor at the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A&M University System. Correspondence Address: 206 Karls Hall, Southwest Missou...

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...