OBJECTIVE To assess the level of nutrition-sensitive agriculture competencies of graduating midlevel animal and plant sciences students in Ethiopia and identify factors associated with the attainment of competencies. DESIGN A cross-sectional study design using structured skills observation checklists, objective written questions, and structured questionnaires was employed. SETTING Two agric...

The Department of Ecology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, PR China; Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, PR China; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA; Center for Bottomland...

Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetic Resources Unit, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, Georgia 30223, USA Department of Chemistry, Gordon College, 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984 USA Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 748, Tifton, Georgia 31793 USA Department of Agriculture, Agricultu...

Pages with reference to book, From 88 To 89 S.Z.H. Naqvi, S.R. Hussain ( Department of Zoology, Government College, Faisalabad. ) S. Mehdi ( Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. ) F. Rizvi ( Government College for Women, Department Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad. ) S.N.H. Bokhari ( 213-Faisalabad. Anatomy, Department Punjab Medical College, Faisal...

in order to make strategic decisions, the new leadership team at the college of agriculture at the california state polytechnic university, pomona conducted a series of focus group interviews with its students, faculty, and staff members. the purpose of this qualitative study was to poll the opinions of these important stakeholders to improve the teaching-learning process in the college, to pro...

The cost of milk production by farm size was decomposed into frontier and efficiency components with a stochastic cost curve using data on 755 USA dairy farms from the year 2000. The estimated frontier function is much flatter than the composite cost curve, and although the frontier cost of production decreases with farm size, that cost reduction is not as pronounced as a cost curve that includ...

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) dates back to 1869 when the university was designated as Tennessee’s federal land-grant institution. Under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act, the university was enabled for the first time to offer instruction in agriculture. Later, federal legislation provided resources for agricultural research and extension programming for d...

the present study investigated the effect of iranian university entrance examinations and the high school grade point average (hsgpa) on agriculture students' achievement. the population included 598 admitted students at the faculties of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran. the specific variables of the study included college grade point average (cgpa) and average of major f...

1 Pollution Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Hindu College Moradabad, University of Rohilkhand, 244001, India 2 Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), Allahabad, 211007, India 3 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, 263145, India 4 Department of...