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2. An analysis of comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services regarding potato production in district Gujranwala
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Riaz, Imran (author), Ashraf, Ijaz (author), Mahmood Ch, Khalid (author), Muhammad Usman (author), Usman, Sohaib (author), and Ejaz, Raza (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-24
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12854
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N.4
- Notes:
- 5 pages, The current research was planned and conducted at Institute of Agricultural Extension, Education and Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan during the year 2019-20 and restricted to district Gujranwala with respect to potato crop. The main objective of this study was to compare the extension services provided by the public and private sector along with different teaching methodologies adopted by them. However, 36 respondents from each tehsil of district Gujranwala were selected through convenient sampling technique. Thereby, getting a sample size of 144 for the purpose of data collection for which interviews were conducted. Data were analyzed through SPSS. Results were explained through weighted score and mean values of all variables. According to results it was found that both sectors were giving useful knowledge to farmers with different teaching methods. It was also concluded that farmers had desire to take information from public sector but they have to go to private sector for products. Furthermore, it was also concluded that performance of public sector was better than private sector.
3. Consumer perceptions of landscape plant production water sources and uses in the landscape during perceived and real drought
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Knuth, Melinda (author), Behe, Bridget K. (author), Hall, Charles R. (author), Huddleston, Patricia (author), Fernandez, R. (author), and Texas A&M University Michigan State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-02
- Published:
- United States: American Society for Horticultural Science
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10339
- Journal Title:
- HortTechnology
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(1) : 85-93
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Via online journal., Water is becoming scarcer as world population increases and will be allocated among competing uses. Some of that water will go toward sustaining human life, but some will be needed to install and support landscape plants. Thus, future water resource availability may literally change the American landscape. Recent research suggests that consumers’ attitudes and behavior toward potable water supplies have changed in other countries because of greater social awareness and increasingly widespread exposure to drought conditions. We conducted an online survey of 1543 U.S. consumers to assess their perceptions about landscape plants, the water source used to produce them, and plant water needs to become established in the landscape. Using two separate conjoint designs, we assessed their perceptions of both herbaceous and woody perennials. Consumers placed greater relative importance on water source in production over water use in the landscape for both herbaceous and woody perennials included in this study. They preferred (had a higher utility score for) fresh water over recycled water and least preferred a blend of fresh with recycled water for perennials and recycled water used for woody perennial production. In addition, the group that did not perceive a drought but experienced one placed a higher value (higher utility score) on nursery plants grown with fresh water compared with those which were actually not in drought and did not perceive one. Educational and promotional efforts may improve the perception of recycled water to increase the utility of that resource. Promoting the benefits of low water use plants in the landscape may also facilitate plant sales in times of adequate and low water periods.
4. Determinants of farmers' intention to adopt water saving measures: evidence from Italy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pino, Giovanni (author), Toma, Pierluigi (author), Rizzo, Cristian (author), Miglietta, Pier Paolo (author), Peluso, Alessandro M. (author), and Guido, Gianluigi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-08
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07841
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(1) : 77
- Notes:
- 14 pages.
5. Excel-based computational template for irrigation scheduling using dual crop coefficients
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Her, Younggu (author), Morgan, Kelly T. (author), and Wang, Qingren (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12340
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 57, n. 2
- Notes:
- 5 pages, We developed an Excel-based computational template Extension educators can use to assist clientele with scheduling irrigation for efficient use of water. With the template, the user applies the dual crop coefficient method to calculate evaporation and transpiration rates separately, with the result being more accurate soil water tracking as compared to what occurs when a single crop coefficient is used. Crop water needs can be conveniently calculated on the basis of soil characteristics, crop growth stages, and weather information. Application examples demonstrate that the amount and frequency of irrigation should be adjusted according to soil texture. The template and application examples are available to Extension professionals as electronic supplementary material.
6. Factors affecting the choice, intensity, and allocation of irrigation technologies by U.S. cotton farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pokhrel, Bijay K. (author), Paudel, Krishna P. (author), and Segarra, Eduardo (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-05-30
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13058
- Journal Title:
- Water
- Journal Title Details:
- V.10, Iss.6
- Notes:
- 12 pages, We use the 2013 cotton precision farming survey data to study the adoption of irrigation technologies by cotton farmers in 14 states of the United States. We find that farmers with a higher irrigated yield, and who are from the Southern Plains (Texas and Oklahoma), adopt water-efficient irrigation technologies, such as sub-surface drip and trickle irrigation technologies. There are 10 irrigation technologies that farmers can adopt for cotton production in these 14 cotton-growing states. The intensity of the irrigation technologies, as measured by the number of irrigation technologies adopted in cotton production, is affected by the irrigated cotton yield realized, land holding (total land owned), education, computer use, and the origin of the cotton farmer being from the Southern Plains. We use a multivariate fractional regression model to identify land allocation by the different irrigation technologies used. Our results indicate that significant variables affecting land allocation with different irrigation technologies are the age of the operator, the cover crop, the information sources used, the per acre irrigated yield, the education, and the cotton farmer being from the Southern Plains.
7. Factors influencing adoption of irrigation technologies among smallholder farmers in Machakos County, Kenya
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Muluki, Kithome Mary (author), Rasugu, Mogaka Hezron (author), Njeri, Mugwe Jayne (author), and Nyarindo, Isaboke Hezron (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07-20
- Published:
- Nigeria: Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12756
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 26, N.3
- Notes:
- 16 pages, The study examined the factors that drive decisions to adopt and use irrigation technologies among smallholder farmers in Machakos County, Kenya. Data were collected from a sample of 300 smallholder farmers. Cross-sectional survey design, a multistage sampling procedure and random sampling method were employed. Percentages, means and econometric analysis were used in data analysis. Results showed that, 31.7% of the respondents practiced irrigation. Sex of household head, education, farm size, off-farm income, credit accessed and access to extension services positively influenced adoption of irrigation technologies. Adoption intensity was positively influenced by gender, off-farm income, farming experience, primary occupation and extension services. As a result, it is suggested that while formulating development strategies and programs for smallholder farmers, agricultural extension organizations should give priority to these factors.
8. Factors influencing farmers' willingness to participate in water allocation trading. A case study in southern Spain
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Giannoccaro, Giacomo (author), Castillo, Manuela (author), and Berbel, Julio (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08758
- Journal Title:
- Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(1)
- Notes:
- 13 pages.
9. Farmers' decision-making and land use changes in Kyrgyz agropastoral systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zhumanova, Munavar (author), Wrage-Mönnig, Nicole (author), and Darr, Dietrich (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11
- Published:
- Kyrgyzstan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08761
- Journal Title:
- Mountain Research and Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(4) : 506-517
10. Improving on-farm water use efficiency: role of collective action in irrigation management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chaudhry, Anita M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D11550
- Journal Title:
- Water Resources and Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 22 :4-18
- Notes:
- 15 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Data from Pakistan prompt the author to suggest that underlying community characteristics and/or social interactions may be driving both the performance of water user associations and on-farm water use efficiency.