Edgar, Leslie D. (author) and Amaral, Katlin N. (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2010-02-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29980
Notes:
Presented at the Agricultural Communications Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Conference, Orlando, Florida, February 7-9, 2010. 22 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05845
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Online from the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield, Wisconsin. 2 pages., Report of a national survey of agritourism operators
Miller, Jefferson D. (author), McCullough, Stacey W. (author), Rainey, Daniel V. (author), and Das, Biswaranjan (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-02-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29975
Notes:
Presented at the Agricultural Communications Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Conference, Orlando, Florida, February 7-9, 2010. 17 pages.
2 pages., Author suggests that today's online auction sites in the consumer area may provide patterns for agribusiness in the years ahead. Describes three sites: eBay, Overstock.com and Woot.com.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26313
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6 pages., Part of a 59-page report of findings from a survey among executives at U.S. companies. This section focuses on responses from executives in the horticulture/farming sector.
9 pages, via online journal article, Internet is a key for globalization and a tool for communication around the world. E-commerce has been introduced as a global phenomenon in the twenty-first century by internet development. The main goal of this research is to investigate the challenges and solutions of e-commerce in Iran’s agriculture. The paper is based on a descriptive-analytical type of field research, therefore a questionnaire was prepared as our data collection tool. The population of this research was a panel of agriculture faculty members in Iran. The overall results showed that the use of e-commerce in Iran’s agriculture has many obstacles ahead in infrastructural, cultural, social and educational fields. The research findings showed that e-commerce can provide many advantages like profitability, elimination of intermediaries, agricultural production market development, farmers' awareness of market prices, and access to national and international markets, increasing competition and improving the quality of agricultural products. According to the results it seems
that infrastructure development, culture and security and confidence production, and internet training to all classes of people are the most important strategies for e-business development in agriculture. Further research in this area and using other countries’ experiences are some other proposed solutions for e-commerce development in Iranian agriculture.
