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Direct linkAdeoti, Adetola; Barry, Boubacar; Namara, Regassa; Kamara, Abdul – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2009
Treadle pump (TP) technology has been promoted by Enterprise Works in West Africa as an alternative to the traditional rope and bucket irrigation. The aim is to improve output and incomes and reduce poverty among farm households. This paper reports a short term (two years) assessment of the dynamics of its adoption and impacts, with a special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Water, Agricultural Machinery
Ofuoku, A. U.; Olele, N. F.; Emah, G. N. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008
This study was conducted to isolate the determinants of improved fish production technologies in Delta State, Nigeria. Data were collected from a sample population of 250 fish farmers from ten randomly selected Local Government Areas of Delta State. The data were elicited from respondents with the use of structured interview schedule while…
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Testing, Multiple Regression Analysis, Foreign Countries
Swanson, Burton E. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2006
This paper discusses the transition from a national focus on food security during the last half of the 20th century to an emerging strategy on helping small-scale farm households increase farm income to reduce rural poverty. The basic proposition is that if extension is going to help increase farm incomes and rural employment, then it must shift…
Descriptors: Poverty, Competition, Foreign Countries, Agricultural Production
Download full textLilley, Stephen; And Others – 1990
This survey of North Carolina farmers focuses on the impact of important social changes and their interplay with ongoing changes in agriculture. It provides information for policymakers and education researchers to prepare for possible changes in the rural education system. State farmers were interviewed in 1987 and again in 1988. Of 883 people…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Trends, Economic Change, Economic Factors
Friedland, William H.; Kappel, Tim – 1979
Because of the decline of farm population and family farms, the increase in energy-intensivity, and concentration process in agriculture, a rising tide of criticism has focused on the land grant system and its role in encouraging scientific applications supporting these trends. A study was conducted to develop a strategy that would change…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Change Strategies
Nielson, James – 1967
As a final chapter in the research to evaluate the impact of the Michigan township extension experiment, this report focuses on why and how change came about, what factors appear to be most closely related to change, and the ways in which change agents can most effectively help bring about change. In the experiment, extension agents worked…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Production, Behavior Change, Community Cooperation
