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2. Synthesis and challenge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miller, Mason E. (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09718
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Winrock International. Pages 187-203.
3. The Role of Social Media Applications in Palm Oil Extension Services in Malaysia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Peng, Tan Say (author), Lyndon, Novel (author), Hashim, Khairuman (author), and Aman, Zaki (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Malaysia: UKM Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12428
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Southeast Asia Social Sciences and Humanities
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 91 (3)
- Notes:
- 21 pages, The Malaysian palm oil industry faces many challenges, especially in agricultural technology at the plantation level because smallholders have trouble getting detailed information and the latest data on the palm oil industry issues. More efficient extension services are needed in meeting the need to increase knowledge. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the best method to accelerate agricultural technology transfer from research institutions to smallholders. Growing concerns about the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on health have prompted development agents to change the course and landscape of their delivery to social media application as a new norm socialisation agent. The study aims to examine the role of information and communication technology as a tool for developing new norms in conveying information and empowering smallholders’ knowledge. This study uses a qualitative approach through content analysis on several reports from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The study found that the use of social media platforms among Malaysians is high, thus the level of application of technology and palm oil information needs to be improved through social media applications. The government needs to develop social media applications that are friendly, easily accessible and the information presented is easy to understand. The implication of this study is that the use of information and communication technology will change the pattern of expansion of the palm oil sector in Malaysia in the future.
4. Trends on Advanced Information and Communication Technologies for Improving Agricultural Productivities: A Bibliometric Analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Armenta-Medina, Dagoberto (author), Ramirez-del Real, Tania A. (author), Villanueva-Vásquez, Daniel (author), and Mejia-Aguirre, Cristian (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12386
- Journal Title:
- Agronomy
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10 (12)
- Notes:
- 24 pages, In this work, an exhaustive revision is given of the literature associated with advanced information and communication technologies in agriculture within a window of 25 years using bibliometric tools enabled to detect of the main actors, structure, and dynamics in the scientific papers. The main findings are a trend of growth in the dynamics of publications associated with advanced information and communication technologies in agriculture productivity. Another assertion is that countries, like the USA, China, and Brazil, stand out in many publications due to allocating more resources to research, development, and agricultural productivity. In addition, the collaboration networks between countries are frequently in regions with closer cultural and idiomatic ties; additionally, terms’ occurrence are obtained with Louvain algorithm predominating four clusters: precision agriculture, smart agriculture, remote sensing, and climate smart agriculture. Finally, the thematic-map characterization with Callon’s density and centrality is applied in three periods. The first period of thematic analysis shows a transition in detecting the variability of a nutrient, such as nitrogen, through the help of immature georeferenced techniques, towards greater remote sensing involvement. In the transition from the second to the third stage, the maturation of technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, wireless sensor networks, and the machine learning area, is observed