the performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in oyo state, nigeria was assessed in this study. the study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 lgas in two agricultural zones of the state. findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...

1. This is EDIS document FE712, a publication of the Food and Resource Economics Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published June 2008. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Allen Morris, Associate Extension Scientist, and Ron Muraro, Professor, Food and Resource Econom...

In 2006, Cooperative Extension launched an online information source known as eXtension. Perceptions of eXtension’s characteristics, and potential barriers to adoption, are likely to influence an extension agent’s decision to adopt eXtension. An online survey instrument was used to collect information related to the adoption of eXtension by Texas Cooperative Extension county extension agents. T...

in this paper, we use game theory to describe the emergence of self-organization and consequent pattern formation through communicative cooperation in bacillus subtilis colonies. the emergence of cooperative regime is modelled as an n-player assurance game, with the bacterial colonies as individual players. the game is played iteratively through cooperative communication, and mediated by exchan...

Agricultural Extension services are among the most important rural services in developing countries. The services are considered to be a key driver of technological change and productivity growth in agriculture. In Kenya, like in the rest of the developing economies, agricultural extension has largely been delivered through supply–driven approaches. Due to perceived low impact of agricultural e...

A summary of research conducted in 2018-2020 on fertilizer use and management practices for crops Kansas. Published 2021 from the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension Service https://www.ag.k-state.edu/