M.A. Sayed, M.T. Islam, M.M. Haque, M.J.H. Shah, R. Ahmed, M.N. Siddiqui & M.A. Hossain 1 The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, 3-18-8 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550 Japan, 2 Department of Biotechnology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur -1706, Bangladesh, 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hajee Mohammad Danesh S...

According to the Ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural R&E, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of Iran. In ord...

Recent Understanding on Structure, Function and Evolution of Plant Disease Resistance Genes T R SHARMA1*, A DAS2, S THAKUR1 and B L JALALI3 1National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa Campus, New Delhi 110 012, India 2Crop Improvement Division, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024, (UP), India 3Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agri...

Z. E. Kayler, M. Kaiser, A. Gessler, R. H. Ellerbrock, and M. Sommer Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalderstr. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany University of California – Merced, 4225 N. Hospital Road, Atwater 95301, California, USA Institute of Soil Landscape Research, Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZAL...

M R RYAN*, D A MORTENSEN*, L BASTIAANS , J R TEASDALE , S B MIRSKY , W S CURRAN*, R SEIDEL§, D O WILSON§ & P R HEPPERLY§ *Department of Crop and Soil Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, Crop and Weed Ecology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA, and §King’s Agriseeds Inc....

By W. H. BLACK, senior animal husbandman, and R. L. HINER, assistant animal husbandman, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry; L. B. BTJRK, marketing specialist, Agricultural Marketing Service; LUCY M. ALEXANDER, associate specialist in foods, Foods and Nutrition Division, Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, and C. V. WILSON, associate animal husban...

This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...

Qian Wang, Thomas P. Warelow, Yoon-Suk Kang, Christine Romano, Thomas H. Osborne, Corinne R. Lehr, Brian Bothner, Timothy R. McDermott, Joanne M. Santini, Gejiao Wang State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China; Institute of Structural & Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of ...