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2. Costs and returns of education in five agricultural areas of eastern Brazil
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kehrberg, E.W. (author) and Patrick, G.F. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1973
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 48 Document Number: C00029
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 55(2): 145-153
- Notes:
- Phase 1
3. Decision making : the role of education
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huffman, Wallace E. (author / Assistant Professor of Economics, Oklahoma State University) and Assistant Professor of Economics, Oklahoma State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1974
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00078
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (1): 85-97
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Study examines the contribution of education to production both as an "allocative effect" and as a "worker effect". An allocative effect is based on the decision making process and refers to an individual's ability to acquire, decode, and sort market and technical information efficiently. Worker effect reflects education's effect on technical efficiency, or the ability of the more educated worker to produce more from a given set of inputs. The study focuses on a single aspect of allocative ability - adjustment of Midwestern U.S. farmers to the changing optimum quantity of nitrogen fertilizer in corn production. The hypothesis is that rate of adjustment can be explained by economic variables: the rate is positively related to education of farmers, availability of information (extensio), and scale incentive to be informed (acres of corn) is supported by the results. It is also noted that education and extension serve as substitute sources of allocative efficiency.
4. Does agricultural extension pay? The training and visit system in northwest India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feder, Gershon (author), Lau, Lawrence J. (author), Slade, Roger H. (author), and The World Bank; Stanford University; The World Bank
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 65 Document Number: C02496
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 69(3) : 677-686
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
5. Economics of paid extension: lesson from experience in Nicaragua
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Keynan, G. (author) and Dinar, A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-08
- Published:
- Nicaragua
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19662
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 83(3) : 769-776
6. Extension decision aids for the Dairy Termination Program: a comparative analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Knight, Thomas O. (author), Kubiak, Kathryn A. (author), and Knight: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, TX; Kubiak: Graduate research assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, TX
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987-11
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05350
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 69 (4) : 777-785.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 88021937, Abstract: Extension economists in many states develop decision aids to assist agricultural producers in evaluating farm participation. It is important that these analytical procedures yield reliable results. Consistency among procedures is also important when they are used in formulating competitive bids for programs like the Dairy Termination Program. Seven Dairy Termination Program break-even bid procedures are examined. The results show that the analytical approaches are conceptually quite different and that numerical results derived for an example farm are inconsistent.
7. Information and Communication Technologies to Provide Agricultural Advice to Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Van Campenhout, Bjorn (author), Spielman, David J. (author), and Lecoutere, Els (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03-26
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12029
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 103, Issue 1
- Notes:
- 21 Pages, Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information. This approach is not always effective and has proved hard to scale sustainably, particularly in highly dispersed smallholder farming systems. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been advanced as a promising way to overcome many of the problems associated with conventional agricultural extension. We evaluate the effectiveness of an ICT‐mediated approach to deliver agricultural information in a field experiment conducted among small‐scale maize farmers in eastern Uganda. Three complementary technologies designed to address both informational and behavioral constraints to technical change are considered. First, we investigate the effectiveness of audiovisual messages (video) as a means of delivering information on input use and improved maize management practices to farmers. Second, we quantify the additional impact of complementing video with an interactive voice response (IVR) service. Third, we estimate the incremental effect of time‐sensitive short message services (SMS) messages designed to remind farmers about applying key practices at specific points during the season. We find that households that were shown a short video on how to become better maize farmers were performing significantly better on a knowledge test, more likely to apply recommended practices, and more likely to use fertilizer than households that did not view the video. These same households also reported maize yields about 10.5% higher than those that did not view the video. We find little evidence of an incremental effect of the IVR service or SMS reminders.
8. Information preferences of Ohio commercial farmers : implications for extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Batte, Marvin T. (author), Botomogno, Jean (author), Jones, Eugene (author), Schnitkey, Gary (author), and Schnitkey, Batte, and Jones: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University; Botomogno: Department of Agricultural Economics, Dschang University Center, Cameroon
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06520
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 74 (2) : 486-497
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection; AGRICOLA IND 92048494, Mathematical logic models were used to examine farmers' information preferences for marketing, production, and financial decisions. Dependent variables represented the preferred information source category: Cooperative Extension Service, printed, broadcast, specialist, and other sources. Independent variables included farm and business characteristics. In general, farmers preferred information from printed sources, and the Cooperative Extension Service ranked highly as an information source. Results did not support the contention that farmers are substituting specialist services for information received from the Cooperative Extension Service. (author)
9. Innovations on family farms : the nazareth region in Israel
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dinar, Ariel (author), Voet, Hillary (author), Yaron, Daniel (author), and Yaron and Voet: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Dinar: visiting researcher, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992-05
- Published:
- Israel
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06521
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 74 (2) : 361-370
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, This paper analyzes factors that affect innovativeness on family farms under Arab social and institutional systems in the Nazareth region in the north of Israel. The adoption of five different innovations was studied and an "index of innovativeness" was constructed. Innovativeness was found to be affected positively by risk tolerance, extension, and water quota allotment and affected negatively by the farm's land area. The latter result supports the hypothesis that a small land area provides an incentive to adopt high-payoff, input-intensive innovations. Innovativeness is affected by extension but not necessarily by education. this result implies that farmers with elementary school education are capable of adopting complex technologies if proper extension services are provided. (author)
10. Market returns, infrastructure and the supply and demand for extension services
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Langworthy, Mark (author), Friswold, George B. (author), and Fernicola, Kathleen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-08
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19660
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 83(3) : 758-763