USA: U.S.Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14863
Notes:
ERS Foreign - 76, Development and Trade Analysis Division, Economic Research Service. 32 pages, Page 14 contains a discussion about the gap between knowledge and actual application on the farm. "It has been estimated, for example, that crop production per acre could increase one-fourth in the next five years on lands readily available, and primarily with methods now known and widely used." Cites USDA, Food and Agriculture: a Program for the 1960s, March 1962, in connection with that estimate.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23736
Notes:
Best practices database in improving the living environment. 2 pages., Describes a market information system and service for smallholder farmers, using low-cost information and communication technologies. During the last season, farmers who used the MIS to market their maize obtained 22% higher prices than those who did not.
