Describes method used by hybrid seed marketers to sell to a farmer-dealer at wholesale, then allow the farmer to distribute the product in a local area.
Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Companion articles here. The first presents this poem inviting patience and wisdom in addressing the prices the farmer is receiving, as compared with prices of other things people buy. The follow-up letter to the editor suggested that whoever penned it was "preying" on ignorance and appealing to emotionalism.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D01193
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Paper submitted for the 5th World Congress for Rural Sociology,36 pages., Small farmer agriculture in developing countries is conceptualized in terms of a social system elements model in which social organizational (power, rank,status-role), social psychological (norm, belief, sentiment),and social economic (objective, facility,sanction) elements enter the farmer's decision making regarding which technology is most beneficial to employ in his farming operation.
Byrnes, Kerry J. (author) and Rural Sociological Society
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1980-08-20
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D01191
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Paper submitted for the Annual Meeting of th Rural Sociological Society, 58 pages., Agricultural research aimed at developing alternative agricultural production technologies for the small farmer in developing countries typically does not adequately take into consideration the range of factors in the farmer's social environment, which may operate to facilitate or constrain the decisions which the farmer makes about the technology to be employed in his farming operation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06741
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Online via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Master' thesis, Michigan State University. Publication No. AAT 1315988. Source: MAI 19/02, p. 197, Summer 1981. 1 page.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: C08368
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Peggy F. Barlett, ed. Agricultural decision making : anthropological contributions to rural development. New York, NY : Academic Press, 1980. p. 45-85
