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    2. A study on impact of ICT enabled web portal (Krishinet) on farmers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Singh, Vinod (author) and Kameswari, V.L.V. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-06
    Published:
    India: New Delhi Publishers
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: D10868
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology
    Journal Title Details:
    12(2): 163-174
    Notes:
    12 pages., via online journal., In recent years, there has been extensive investment in e-governance throughout the developing world. Still, little is known about the impact of those investments, partly due to a lack of assessment guidance. In this study modified sustainable livelihood framework approach was used for studying impact of the project on farmers. Before and after data was collected from the registered farmers using recall method to assess the impact of the project on all five types of capital (Natural capital, financial capital, human capital, physical capital and social capital). It was found that after implementation of the project, in the category of natural capital, average production and average sold quantity of rice, wheat, pigeon pea, mustard, and green gram has been significantly increased and in the category of financial capital, respondents’ average family income, earning from agriculture and allied sector and benefit from government schemes has been significantly increased and in the category of human capital, average number of training received by respondents and average number of extension contacts made by respondents has been significantly increased and in the category of physical capital, average storage facility has been increased by respondents and in the category of social capital, average number of meetings attended by respondents in Krishi Gyan Kendra has been significantly increased.

    3. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN SOUTH AFRICA: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) SPILLOVER

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Grobler, Wynand (author) and David, Oladipo Olalekan (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-12-01
    Published:
    International: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12207
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment
    Journal Title Details:
    Issue 11(2)
    Notes:
    17 pages, The positive spillover impacts of the efficiency of information and communication technology (ICT) and land accessibility as factor inputs to agricultural productivity are well documented in the literature. Furthermore, input-output efficiency as a measurement of factors contributing towards gross production is no exception in this regard. Few studies on agricultural production and ICT at the household level in South Africa show divergent empirical results. This study investigates the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) and land for farming in the context of household food production in South Africa. Household engagement in agricultural activities is proxy for agricultural production, farm land size is a proxy for land accessibility, telephone and internet use are proxies for ICT in this study. Household data of twenty-one thousand, six hundred and one (21,601) households on agricultural activities and ICTs were generated from the existing survey data of General household survey, 2015 by Statistics South Africa. Majority of the households are not engaging in agricultural activities due to no access to land for farming, but more than 80 percent of the households have access to at least one form of ICTs penetration i.e. mobile telephony. The logit regression shows that internet connection in the household have positive and significant impact on household agricultural production but land accessibility is indirectly related and significant to household food production in South Africa. Therefore land accessibility may be a barrier to agricultural activity involvement in South Africa. The study shows that the positive spillover impacts of ICT may not be possible due to lack of access to land for agriculture. Land for farming, CDMA telephony and internet are highly required for agricultural activities in order to promote food production, reduce cost of telecommunications, promoting agricultural research and development via internet accessibility.

    6. Bust to boom: reinventing the agricultural marketing model

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Motter, John (author)
    Format:
    Opinion
    Publication Date:
    2019-08
    Published:
    United States: AgWeb
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: D10831
    Notes:
    10 pages., via website AgWeb's Farm Journal, In their story, “Plowed Under, The Next American Farm Bust Is Upon Us,” (paywall) the Wall Street Journal reported on the tough times we’re facing in agriculture. They are tough. And, as a corn and soybean farmer, it’s painful to see. But farmers are nothing if not resilient. And we’ll survive this one too.

    8. Contextual realities and poverty traps: why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chaudhary, A. (author), Timsina, P. (author), Karki, E. (author), Sharma, A. (author), Suri, B. (author), Sharma , R. (author), and Brown, B. (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2023-02-20
    Published:
    England: Cambridge University Press
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12837
    Journal Title:
    Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
    Journal Title Details:
    Online
    Notes:
    10pgs, Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is gaining prominence as an agricultural pathway to poverty reduction and enhancement of sustainable food systems among government and development actors in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Despite substantial investment in research and extension programs and a growing understanding of the agronomic, economic and labor-saving benefits of CASI, uptake remains limited. This study explores farmer experiences and perspectives to establish why farmers choose not to implement CASI systems despite a strong body of recent scientific evidence establishing the benefits of them doing so. Through thematic coding of semi-structured interviews, key constraints are identified, which establishes a narrative that current households' resources are insufficient to enable practice change, alongside limited supporting structures for resource supplementation. Such issues create a dependency on subsidies and outside support, a situation that is likely to impact any farming system change given the low-risk profiles of farmers and their limited resource base. This paper hence sets out broad implications for creating change in smallholder farming systems in order to promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in resource-poor smallholder contexts, especially with regard to breaking the profound poverty cycles that smallholder farmers find themselves in and which are unlikely to be broken by the current set of technologies promoted to them.

    10. Dissemination of information in agriculture

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Chamberlain, D. (author) and Royal Agricultural Society of England
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    United Kingdom
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26893
    Journal Title:
    Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 158, (1997), pp. 8-13

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