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Mobile phones promise to bring the ICT revolution to previously unconnected populations. A two- year study evaluates an innovative voice-based ICT advisory service for smallholder cotton farmers in India, demonstrating significant demand for, and trust in, new information. Farmers substantially...
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Agricultural extension services have been dominated by development programs to improve the productivity of crops and enhance farmers' income. The virtues and limitations of these programs ignite a debate among scholars from distinct strands of research. It is still unknown how effective...
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Indian agriculture sector has an impressive long-term record of taking the country out of serious food shortages … clear - there is a great need for information, ideas, and organization. About 80 percent of the world's extension is …
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Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the innovation to spread. However, if markets are imperfectly integrated, this may also inflict negative externalities. In a two-step experiment of an agronomy training program among...
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sources has long-term consequences of generating public distrust and alienation from agriculture. This is attributed to the … developing countries, transfer of technology remained largely in the domain of the State Department of Agriculture (DOA), and …
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The major issues before Indian extension system are: how to improve the effectiveness of extension systems? How to serve the small land holders and marginal farmers in diversified farming systems? and proper allocation of fund, human resources and its management. The ATMA model has been...
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agriculture and minimizing the rural poverty in Eritrea. The study focuses on the incidence of poverty, theoretical background of … agriculture extension, and some significant factors that could improve the efficiency of agricultural extension. It is evident … that most of the poverty alleviation policies in Eritrea are directed towards agriculture in rural areas, as vast human …
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This paper aims to test this hypothesis and to contribute to better understanding of strategies to revitalize the agricultural extension system in Malawi. Specifically, it examines the interplay between the fertilizer subsidy and access to extension services, and their impact on farm...
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activities under the National Agriculture Policy …
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