Jayasinghe, J.A.S.S. (author), Hewagamage, K.P. (author), and Department of Information Technology, CINEC Campus, IT Park, Malabe, Sri Lanka
University of Colombo School of Computing, 35, Reid Avenue, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka
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Conference paper
Publication Date:
2017
Published:
Sri Lanka: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08141
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article number 7829901, pp. 72-79, 16th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2016; Jetwing BlueNegombo; Sri Lanka; 1 September 2016 through 3 September 2016; Category numberCFP1686L-ART; Code 126111
The International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD)
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10917
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14 pages., via IAALD website., The study determined farmers’ adoption of Organic agricultural technologies disseminated via radio
farmer agricultural Extension programme in Imo state, Nigeria. An interview schedule was used to
collect data from a sample of 200 farmers. Results show that radio farmer broadcast and co-farmers
were the major sources of information to greater proportion of the farmers. Data on relevance of the
organic agricultural technologies disseminated showed that almost all the technologies were perceived
to be relevant except the use of biological pest control farming. The radio farmer agricultural
programme enhanced the extent of adoption of organic agricultural technologies namely; crop rotation
practice, planting of indigenous varieties, application of compost, mulching of crops, intercropping,
mixed cropping, crop residues, animal manuring, planting of legumes, green manure, off farm organic
waste, minimum tillage and alley cropping. Nevertheless, the adoptions of the technologies were
generally low. Age, farming experience and social participation significantly influenced adoption of
organic agricultural technologies disseminated via radio farm agricultural Extension programme. Major
constraints identified include short duration of programme, inappropriate scheduling of programme,
inability to ask relevant questions and get feed back from the radio presenter. The study recommends
among other things the rescheduling of the radio programme to very late in the evenings when the
farmers will be opportune to listen to the programme.
Social Networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp are now becoming very popular tools that are used for sharing the latest and important farming based information in different part of India. These tools are now widely used by Agricultural Extension and Advisory services to interact with the farmers for exchanging agricultural related information in India. The most influential farmers in a network can disseminate the information to the less central farmers of the network. The extension functionaries that promote the agricultural innovation will share the information with the most central members which in turn will share it with maximum number of the members of a social network. Social Network Analysis (SNA) acts as an efficient analytical tool that helps us to understand the relationship between farmer stakeholders and the importance of a farmer's position in the entire network. In this paper, a structural analysis of the Social Network is performed over two datasets, namely, Facebook-like dataset and Twitter Lists dataset. Here, we have studied the importance of individual nodes in the network through various centrality measures. SNA properties like centralities are used to represent the most central nodes that can act as a good influence spreader in the network. In this paper, initially the k-core decomposition method is used to find a set of influential nodes among all the nodes in the network. It is done to reduce the computational time. Our simulation shows that the nodes with higher Page Rank centrality can activate more members in a network as compared to other centrality measures. For Information diffusion, we have used Linear Threshold (LT) Model to understand the influence spread of the central farmers in the network.
Peppers, J. Faith (author / University of Georgia) and Eubanks, Emily E. (author / University of Florida)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2009-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30389
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Paper presented in the Agricultural Communicatons Section, annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31 - February 3, 2009. Available in hardcopy at the ACDC and online at http://agnews.tamu.edu/saas/2009/eubanks.pdf
Cartmell, D. Dwayne II (author / Oklahoma State University), Naile, Traci L. (author / Oklahoma State University), and Riley, Kendra (author / Oklahoma State University)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2009-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30401
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Paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009.
Ross, Vernon E. (author) and Leader, Training and Communication, CIAT, Cali, Colombia
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: C19269
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Burton Swanson Collection, In: Strategies for agricultural education in developing countries : Agricultural Education Conference I. 1974 October 15. [New York] : Rockefeller Foundation, 1974. p. 359-402
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23589
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Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005.. 27 pages., Research determined the majority of farmers are not using the Iowa State Agriculture Extension website. They reportedly rely on, trust, and spend most of their free time reading farm publications, watching television shows and listening to radio programs about farming, talking to other farmers, and attending seminars or training sessions.
Thompson, Robin (author), Campbell, Sarah (author), Counsell, David (author), Friend, Doug (author), Ackland, Sarah (author), and Barrington, Steve (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2006-03-06
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24256
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11 p. Paper presented at the Australasia Pacific Extension Network in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, March 6-8, 2006
Montgomery, Florita Stubbs (author / Extension Press Specialist, Extension Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV) and Extension Press Specialist, Extension Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04784
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1990. 14 p. Paper presented at the Agricultural Communicators in Education Conference; 1990 July 14-18; St Paul, MN
Briscoe, Charles Buford (author / Winrock International, Arlington, VA)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06019
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In: Haugen, Christine; Medema, Lee; and Lantican, Celso B., eds. Multipurpose tree species research for small farms : strategies and methods : proceedings of an international conference held November 20-23, 1989 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Arlington, VA : Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1990. p. 173-174
Poley, Janet K. (author / Director, Communication, Information, and Technology Extension Service, USDA)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06894
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 91022954, In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; January 31-February 1, 1990, Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 1-8.
Mincemoyer, Thomas O. (author / Computer Services, College of Agriculture, The Pennsylvania State University)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06895
Notes:
In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; January 31-February 1, 1990, Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 39-44
Kimsey, H.R., Jr. (author), Mrozek, E., Jr. (author), and Extension Computer Services, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06904
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 91022987, In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; 1990 January 31 - February 1; Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 203-207
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06905
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AGRICOLA IND 91022990, In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; 1990 January 31 - February 1; Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 218-223
Kephart, K.D. (author), Trent, A. (author), and Trent: Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Kephart: Extension Specialist, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1990
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06923
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 91023381, In: Zazueta, Fedro S., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs; 1990 January 31 - February 1; Grosvenor Resort Hotel, Disney World Village, Lake Buenavista, FL. Gainesville, FL : Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, [1990]. p. 677-680
Donnellan, LaRae M. (author / Professor and Head, Agricultural Communications Center, University of Idaho)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C07028
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1993. 12 p. (Paper presented at the 1993 International Agricultural Communicators in Education conference; 1993 May 8-12; Miami, FL)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07127
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Report of research completed during the past year. Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prepared for NCR-90 meeting, Oct. 26-28, 1988. Mimeograph, 1988. p. 5
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07138
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Communication research in progress, Iowa State University. Presented to NCR-90 meeting, October 25-27, 1988. Mimeograph. [p. 6-7]
