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2. Role of agricultural journalism in diffusion of farming technologies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Yaseen, Muhammad (author), Karim, Mujahid (author), Luqman, Muhammad (author), and Mehmood, Muhammad Umer (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- Pakistan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12176
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(4) : 289-294
- Notes:
- Online via UI Library Catalog search. 10 pages., Findings of a survey among a sample of 100 farmers in District Sargodha revealed 99% used agricultural radio/TV/FM, 96% used mobile phones, 66% used magazines/newspapers/periodicals, and 61% used social media. Respondents placed highest value on enhancing their productivity.
3. Exploring usage of smartphone among farmers of district bahawalnagar for agricultural extension information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Riaz, Saqib (author), Iqbal, Ashraf (author), and Husain, Basharat (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-02
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12678
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N. 3
- Notes:
- 5 pages, The current study also focuses and analyses the farmers’ inclination and their usage of smart phone for agricultural extension. This research is based on survey research method in which a closed-ended questionnaire was developed after the review of relevant literature. Furthermore, purposive and convenient sampling techniques were used to collect the data from the respondents who are farmers in Punjab. The study was conducted during the year 2020 in the selected district of Bahawalnagar. Overall results elaborate that age and education were among the factors that accounted for familiarity with apps. However, 42.9 percent of the respondents with the age 30 to 40 were somehow familiar with Agri-apps and 17.3 percent of respondents with twelve years of schooling were familiar with the apps usage. Likewise, 37 respondents in age bracket of 20 to 30 were of the view that usage of apps have resulted in increased agricultural production. It was concluded that age and education of the respondents had significant impact on the usage and familiarity of the apps available on smart phones.
4. Evaluation of information seeking behavior of farmers in Punjab
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Riaz, Saqib (author), Shah, Babar Hussain (author), and Iqbal, Muhammad Kamran (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-04-27
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12686
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N. 2
- Notes:
- 5 pages, Information plays important role in agriculture development. This study investigated the nature and extent of available agricultural information sources and information seeking patterns of farmers in Punjab Pakistan. To conduct this study, survey method was used and the population of the study was the farmers of Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan. The sample of 60 farmers was selected during the year 2020 by using convenient sampling technique. Furthermore, these farmers were selected from Attock, Kasur and Bahawalnagar to ensure the representation from northern, central, and southern parts of the province of Punjab. The responses of the framers were collected in the form of questionnaire and researcher used adopted descriptive statistics. Results revealed that majority 41 percent of farmers seek information to enhance their agricultural knowledge. It was found that comparatively interpersonal channels were mostly preferred with the 56 percent whereas mass media occupied second position with 42 percent. It was also found that numerous types of information sources such as interpersonal sources, mass media and new media were available to disseminate information related to farmers’ needs. It was also revealed that among information needs, market and weather forecast trends were on top priority ranked 1st and 2nd respectively.
5. Impacts of urbanisation on farming communities of cagayan de oro city and pathways to sustain local food production
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Factura,Horacio (author), Cimene, Francis Thaise A. (author), Nacaya, Ian Mark Q (author), and Otterpohl, Ralf (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-24
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12687
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60 N. 1
- Notes:
- 5 pages, The main objective of this study was to find out how small farmers were affected by urbanization. The study was conducted during 2020 in 2 barangays (districts ). Cagayan de Ore (CDO) City specifically canitoan and pagatpat, Philippines. There were 12 and 11 farmers in Canitoan and Pagatpat, respectively who participated the focus group discussion (FGD). Majority of them was considered as small farmers due to the size of their farm which was less than 1 hectare. Around 70 hectares of agricultural land in Canitoan were transformed into a private housing subdivision. Qualitative approach was employed using FGD and farmers were organized and interviewed as a group. Data revealed that agricultural lands had been converted into residential or commercial purposes. CDO agriculture area was decreased from 91.5 to 81.89%. Urbanization affected the farmer in term of displacement, income source, decrease economic status and negative motivation for agriculture. In conclusion, urbanization in CDO which brought progressive economic development had negatively affected the lives of some small farmers. We suggested proper policies to find alternatives for the farmers so that they could continue to produce food in the surroundings of the city and thus made city and rural areas more resilient in food supplies and also water regeneration.
6. Government media campaign for agriculture perfection in Punjab, Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shabir,Ghulam (author), Iqbal, Ashraf (author), Riaz, Saqib (author), Safdar, Ghulam (author), and Javed, Muhammad Naeem (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-12
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12689
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 59, N. 1
- Notes:
- 6 pages, Pakistan is an agricultural country and has 80% percent contribution in export earnings and 50% labour forces engagement. The aim of this study was to know about government media campaigns for awareness and information in the agricultural development. The study was conducted at Department of Mass Communication Govt. College University, Faisalabad, during 2019. Data was gathered from government agriculture department website from June 2017 to June 2019 to know about the governmental contribution in agricultural development through media campaigns and nature of these campaigns to aware and educate the farmers. The study found that the mode of government media campaigns was related to transmit message to farmers about warning and preventive (20-26%), inofmraiton and awareness (38-54%), visit and meeting (6-10%), subsidies and credit assistant (6-16%) and policies and new technology (6-8%). The study also revealed that government had specially focused on new technology for better results to aware and educate the farmers to improve their cultivation. But it is also revealed that there is more space to improve the cultivation style and government should play a greater role in the development of agriculture sector.
7. 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.
8. Marketing channel, production technique and farm profitability in vegetables marketing: empirical evidence from micro data in Punjab, Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Yasmin, Bushra (author) and Fatima, Hina (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-27
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12855
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N.4
- Notes:
- 13 pages, Current study was conducted during 2020 by Department of Economics, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan to study evaluate the marketing channel of vegetables in Punjab pertaining to farm’s profitability and the factors determining this profit based on primary data collected from 100 farmers each for 4 selected vegetables . Data were collected through structured questionnaire from 36 villages out of 7 cities of Faisalabad division while from 28 villages out of 5 cities of Bahawalpur division through purposive sampling technique. Gross margin analysis and mean regression was done to estimate the determinants of profit both at division level and for the pooled data. The gross margin per acre was calculated at Rs.171,676 for cucumber, Rs. 171,649 for green chilies, Rs. 315,229 for tomatoes and Rs. 33,002 for onions. The regression results showed age, farming experience, credit and storage facilities, production cost and commission to the middle man as significantly contributing factors in profit while the choice of production technique appeared to be particularly depending on the educational qualification of selected farmers. The peak age that yielded maximum profit was calculated at 49 and 42 years in Faisalabad and Bahawalpur division, respectively. Experience of farmers was significantly increased in profit. The commission to agent surpasses all other payments that farmers incurred during marketing process. The margin was around 39% and 33% of total cost for cucumber and chilies in Faisalabad while 34% and 43% percent for tomatoes and onion in Bahawalpur. So the enactment of farmers with middle man for the sale of crop was due to heavy reliance on them for loans; around 80 percent famers in Faisalabad while about 40 percent in Bahawalpur sought loans from middle man. The study suggested that healthy competition among farmers by providing them adequate storage facilities, sufficient credit, perfect market information and education could contribute positively in adopting advanced modes of production to minimize the production and marketing cost.
9. Evaluating determinants of climate-change perception among farming communities in district Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Raza, Muhammad Afnan (author) and Ullah, Sana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-30
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12856
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N.3
- Notes:
- 10 pages, This research endeavor, conducted in year 2019-20, explores farmers’ perception regarding climate change and the impacts of socioeconomic indicators affecting these perceptions in district Mardan, KP-Pakistan. For this purpose, total of 140 sampled respondents, seventy from each village were selected for primary data collection. Ordered probit model was used to quantify the determinants of climate change perception. Demographic characteristics revealed that average age of the respondents was 44.42 years, with average schooling, household size, farming experience and farm size of 7.73 years, about 9.96 members, 27.90 years and 3.1 acres, respectively. The study findings indicated that age, education, household size, farming experience, total income and nature of land significantly (p < 0.05) affect farmers’ perception of climate change specifying that younger farmers perceive climate change impacts more as compared to older farmers, while experienced were more likely to perceive than inexperienced. Educated farmers perceived changes in climate more than less educated or uneducated. Small holders perceived more than big landlords, rain-fed farm holders perceived more than irrigated farm holders, high income farmers perceived more than low income farmers, owners perceived more than owner-cum tenants and tenants and small families perceived more than big families. The study recommended climate change awareness programs through government and nongovernment organizations, i.e. education programs, farmer field schools (FFS), agricultural extension agencies to bridge the farmer- research gap, government role in realistic land reforms, establishment of farm services centers (FSCs), climate information centers and diversify farm income opportunities.
10. Growth and instability of export of selected fruits and vegetables in Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Naheed, Sobia (author), Tahira,Riffat (author), and Bashir, Arshed (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-02
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12858
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 61, N.1
- Notes:
- 9 pages, The present study was conducted in Faisalabad at Social Sciences Research Institute, Pakistan Agricultural Reseaerch Council, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan during 2019. Countries wise time series data of exported fruits and vegetables were taken from AMIS for finding instability of commodities and countries. Current study focused on the compound annual growth rates of production, export quantity and value of mostly exported fruits and vegetables. Growth trends of selected commodities were executed by using semitrend growth model. Coefficient of variation technique was used to find out instability of specific commodity for specific country/market. Selected exported vegetables (potato, tomato, onion and garlic) indicated instability results for Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Qatar and Indonesia among given markets and within the given period. Among fruits kinnow export shared 24.96, mango export results showed 22.08 percent share in total fruits export followed by 13.55 percent share of orange and 8.6 percent export share of dates dried in total export from Pakistan. Results observed for instability of exports to countries, minimum value of coefficient of variation (24.34 percent) was recorded for Bahrein market for kinnow export and Bahrein market was stable among given markets. Similarly, mango results showed that export of mango to Germany market was stable among given markets and within the given period. Export of orange to Saudi Arabia market and export of dates to Bangladesh market was stable among given markets within the given period of time. Finally, in order to lessen the instability, it can be proposed that Pakistan ought to take steps to boost the exports of primary commodity and value added products to raise revenue profitable.