Findings prompt researchers to recommend the use of information and communications technologies with conventional approaches in conservation agriculture knowledge networks.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23121
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Presented at the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Workshop of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Kampala, Uganda, December 15-16, 2002. 7 pages.
Chianu, J. (author), Murage, A.W. (author), Amudavi, D. (author), Obare, G. (author), and Khan, Z. (author)
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Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-09-14
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Kenya
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30716
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Paper presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 1 page.
6 pages., Article is a revision of material presented at the annual conference (2017) of the Korea Association of SouthEast Asian Studies., Results show that participants of the farmer field schools (FFS) program were more likely to adopt the drought-tolerant rice varieties by 9.9% compared to the non-participants. "It also demonstrates that the FFS with the Local Farmer Technician system is effective in improving farmers' adoption of the newly introduced varieties in the survey area.
