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2. TIPAN Project - Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Agricultural Communications faculty (author / University of Illinois)
- Format:
- Project files
- Publication Date:
- 1982-01-01
- Published:
- Pakistan: Office of Agricultural Communications, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10034
- Notes:
- The project file is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Pakistan - TIPAN" file folder., This project file describes formation and early activities of the Office of Agricultural Communications, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois participation in the Northwest Frontier Province in Pakistan. This $15.2 million project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, was a collaborative effort with the Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University. Agricultural communications faculty and staff members were involved in several initiatives, including development of courses and curricula, a learning resources center, and a continuing education center.
3. The use of social media on political participation among university students: an analysis of survey results from rural Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ahmad, Taufiq (author), Alvi, Aima (author), and Ittefaq, Muhammad (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Pakistan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11381
- Journal Title:
- SAGE Open
- Journal Title Details:
- July-September 2019: 1-9
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., An online survey among undergraduate and graduate university students in rural Pakistan revealed that the majority used social media for political awareness and information. Findings of the study suggested that "online political activities strongly correlate to political awareness and offline political participation. In rural areas of Pakistan, the younger generations are very active on social media to participate in online and offline political happenings."
4. Analysis of factors affecting dissemination of agricultural information among farmers through ict in punjab,Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ahmad, Waqar (author), Ali, Tanvir (author), Shahbaz, Babar (author), and Siddiqui, Muhammad Tahir (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-10
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12690
- Journal Title:
- journal of agricultural research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 59, N.2
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Present study was carried out in 2018-19, in the three districts of Punjab i.e., Faisalabad, Sargodha and Muzaffargarh to analyse the factors affecting dissemination of agricultural information to farmers through ICT tools. One hundred and twenty respondents were selected randomly from each district, making a total sample of 360 respondents. Concerning the general use of ICT tools in the dissemination of agricultural information, the findings indicated a change in trend from the radio (11.1%) towards TV (85.6%) and mobile phone SMS (75.8%). The relevance of information and ICT tools’ cost appeared as common determinant factors for technology transfer effectiveness by ICT tools. Furthermore, farmers also indicated that the most effective tool to disseminate agricultural information was television, followed by the mobile phone and social media. Moreover, most of the farmers (81.7 % and 73.1%, respectively) indicated that the lack of innovative information and difficulties in using ICT tools were significant barriers while communicating via these tools. The use of television and mobile phones in extension should be improved because they were relatively more popular among farmers. It was recommended that the Punjab government should also design a system of periodic monitoring and evaluation of the use of information and communication technologies in the extension with agricultural universities’ participation and relevant non-governmental organizations in Punjab. A dynamic feedback system should be designed, based on the local advisory committees’ recommendations, to determine the local farmers’ needs/problems, which should be sent immediately to the Directorate of Agricultural Information to suggest some suitable solution and disseminate through ICTs.
5. Advancement of rural women: the emerging networks
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ahmad, Zubeida (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1986-03
- Published:
- International: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08966
- Journal Title:
- Ceres
- Journal Title Details:
- 19(2) : 31-35
- Notes:
- AgComm Teaching
6. Adoption of biogas: a story from rural Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Akram, Waqar (author), Lohano, Heman (author), and Jan, Malik Inayatullah (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2017-07-30
- Published:
- Pakistan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09421
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 13 pages.
7. Farmers’ perceptions regarding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aldosari, Fahad (author), Al Shunaifi, Mohamed Saleh (author), Ullah, Muhammad Amjad (author), Muddassir, Muhammad (author), and Noor, Mehmood Ali (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04
- Published:
- Saudi Arabia: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10318
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 211-217
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., Like many developing countries, agriculture is seen as the vehicle for development also in Pakistan. Our study was aimed to identify the perceptions of farmer community towards the electronic media and relationship between different demographic characteristics of respondents with the use of electronic communication of TV and radio, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), a province of Pakistan. Random sampling technique was used for selecting 183 respondents. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Chi-square. Results revealed that maximum respondents were agreed that mobile and internet can be a useful source of agricultural information and only 1.6 and 5.5% of the respondents were strongly disagreed about information means, respectively. A maximum number of the respondents were undecided about “agricultural helpline can be a useful source of agricultural information”, only 14.2% of the respondents were strongly agreed with this statement. A highly significant relationship was found between age of respondents and application of information received through radio and TV. On the other side, education of the respondents had a highly significant relationship with the application of information received through radio only. Farming experience of the respondents had no significant relationship with the application of information received through TV and radio. Results suggested that extension personnel should motivate and educate the farming community about the use of electronic media (TV, radio, helpline, internet, mobile) for advanced information about agriculture production techniques.
8. Rural farmers perception and coping strategies towards climate change and their determinants: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ali, Sajjad (author), Ying, Liu (author), Nazir, Adnan (author), Ishaq, Muhammad (author), Shah, Tariq (author), Ye, Xinyue (author), LLyas, Aasir (author), and Tariq, Azam (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-01
- Published:
- Interational: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Box 204 Document Number: D12476
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 291
- Notes:
- 14 pages, Climate change has severe consequences not at just local, regional but also at a global scale. Since such shifts in the climate, the substantial agriculture sector of Pakistan has been suffering widely from its drastic change. The present study is carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan, to explore the perception of smallholder farmers related to climate change. Data is collected from 400 smallholder farmers of Malakand, Mardan and Swabi districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This study expounds the perception of farmers and their farming adaptations to variations in climatic occurrence. Binary logistic regression was employed to discover the aspects that shape smallholder farmer’s adaptation strategies. Our results depicted that the awareness and farm household’s exploits methods for climate change adaptation were common throughout the study area. The main adaptation strategies carried out or executed by the smallholder farmers were irrigation, non-farm activities and early planting schemas. This research identified the barriers to climate change adaptation were lack of money, unavailability of required seed, nonexistence of market access, insecure land tenure system and shortage of information. The findings of the study recommend improving farmer’s awareness and providing timely information about climate change. To improve farmer’s well-being, adequate extension services and greater investment facilities are required to support farmers to sustain their livelihoods in the long run to cope with climate change.
9. Cultural change and persistence: new perspectives on development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ascher, William (author) and Heffron, John M. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- International: Palgrave Macmillan, New York City, New York.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08684
- Notes:
- 263 pages.
10. Working effectiveness of dissemination channels as perceived by potato growers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Butt, Tahir Munir (author), Hassan, Muhammad Zakaria Yousuf (author), Sahi, Shawbaz Talib (author), Mehmood, Khalid (author), Subtain, Mashood-ul (author), and Hassan, Naeem-ul (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Pakistan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07552
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Agricultural Development and Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (1): 1-6
11. Working effectiveness of dissemination channels as perceived by potato growers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Butt, Tahir Munir (author), Zakaria, Muhammad (author), Hassan, Yousuf (author), Sahi, Shawbaz (author), Mehmood, Khalid (author), Mashood-ul-Subtain (author), and Hassan, Naeem-ul (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Iran
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00268
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of agricultural Management and Developement
- Journal Title Details:
- 1(1) : 1-6
- Notes:
- Via Directory of Open Access Journals.
12. Holdings in the SEA-Extension Repository: Extension in the United States and other parts of the world
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrn, Darcie (author)
- Format:
- Bibliography
- Publication Date:
- 1980-06
- Published:
- USA: SEA-Extension, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08731
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, A directory of citations for varied resources, organized by country, state and area. 16 pages.
13. Recent additions to the SEA-Extension Repository - International 1980
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrn, Darcie (author)
- Format:
- Bibliography
- Publication Date:
- 1980
- Published:
- USA: SEA-Extension, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08733
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Directory of citations, organized by country. 22 pages.
14. Water users associations in bank-assisted irrigation projects in Pakistan; Volume I: Technical report
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes , Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Technical report
- Publication Date:
- 1991-09-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1 Document Number: D09148
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, World Bank, 133 pages.
15. Water users associations in bank-assisted irrigation projects in Pakistan; Volume II: Case studies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes , Kerry J. (author)
- Format:
- Case study
- Publication Date:
- 1991-09-01
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1 Document Number: D09149
- Notes:
- Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, World Bank, 127 pages.
16. Winrock #8
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
- Format:
- File
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes8 Document Number: D09069
- Notes:
- Includes Documents C12667 "Setting minds in motion in the developing world" and C12668 "Training for agricultural research in Pakistan". In 4 folders in the box., Francis C. Byrnes Collection
17. 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.
18. How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Coggins, Sam (author), McCampbell, Mariette (author), Sharma, Akriti (author), Sharma, Rama (author), Haefele, Stephen (author), Karki, Emma (author), Hetherington, Jack (author), Smith, Jeremy (author), and Brown, Brendan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-01
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12486
- Journal Title:
- Global Food Security
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 32
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Digital extension tools (DETs) include phone calls, WhatsApp groups and specialised smartphone applications used for agricultural knowledge brokering. We researched processes through which DETs have (and have not) been used by farmers and other extension actors in low- and middle-income countries. We interviewed 40 DET developers across 21 countries and 101 DET users in Bihar, India. We found DET use is commonly constrained by fifteen pitfalls (unawareness of DET, inaccessible device, inaccessible electricity, inaccessible mobile network, insensitive to digital illiteracy, insensitive to illiteracy, unfamiliar language, slow to access, hard to interpret, unengaging, insensitive to user's knowledge, insensitive to priorities, insensitive to socio-economic constraints, irrelevant to farm, distrust). These pitfalls partially explain why women, less educated and less wealthy farmers often use DETs less, as well as why user-driven DETs (e.g. phone calls and chat apps) are often used more than externally-driven DETs (e.g. specialised smartphone apps). Our second key finding was that users often made - not just found - DETs useful for themselves and others. This suggests the word ‘appropriation’ conceptualises DET use more accurately and helpfully than the word ‘adoption’. Our final key finding was that developers and users advocated almost ubiquitously for involving desired users in DET provision. We synthesise these findings in a one-page framework to help funders and developers facilitate more useable, useful and positively impactful DETs. Overall, we conclude developers increase DET use by recognizing users as fellow developers – either through collaborative design or by designing adaptable DETs that create room for user innovation.
19. IoT in Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Farooq, Muhammad Shoaib (author) and Akram, Sobia (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-28
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12688
- Journal Title:
- journal of agricultural research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 59, N.1
- Notes:
- 25 pages, The consumption of food production demand for quality of food and the environmental impact of agriculture have led to utilize the information and communication technology in the agricultural sector. The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a contemporary technology, which is evolving quickly in recent years and brings many benefits with it to modernize the agriculture. The scientific groups and research institutes are working to deliver clarifications and solutions for the use of IoT to address various aspects of agriculture. The focal point of this research is to present an SLR (Systematic Literature Review) by collecting the valid and innovative research on IoT in agriculture which has been done during 2019 at School of System and Technology, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. This SLR has been conducted through research articles which were published in the prestigious venues from 2006 to 2019. In order to conduct this SLR concerned studies have been clustered into different classifications: type of the concerned research, empirical type, technological solutions for agriculture like monitoring, control, prediction, logistics and their sub-domains. Moreover, an IoT based framework of smart agriculture has been presented that indicate the current solutions of agricultural problems. The selected 80 research papers have been classified as per defined criteria. The findings of this research have been discussed in detail and summarize the practice of IoT in agriculture.
20. Sustaining agriculture with information: An assessment of rural citrus farmers’ information behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hassan, Ali (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-14
- Published:
- United States: Sage Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12411
- Journal Title:
- Information Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 37 Issue (3)
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Information needs, surveys, extension agents, information seeking, small farmers, small farms, development, Pakistan(Southern Asia), This study investigated information behaviour of citrus farmers residing in rural areas of Sargodha, Pakistan. The data were collected from 120 adult male farmers through face to face interviews using preformulated questionnaire and analyzed by applying descriptive statistics. The citrus farmers required information on land preparation, soil fertility management, better citrus varieties, citrus trees protection, harvesting techniques, pest and diseases control, fertilizer applications, plantation techniques, finance, Government policies and programs, better pricing, labor information in the locality, agrochemicals, how to stop fruit drop, weather, irrigation management, pesticides application, health and safety information, buyers, collections and traders, and herbicide. These farmers relied overwhelmingly on their prior experience and interpersonal relationships such as fellow farmers/friends, progressive farmers, for agricultural information. More than two-third of these farmers did not seem to have any contact, either written or oral, with government agricultural officials. The farmers’ farm size, education, and income appeared to predict their information needs and sources. Lack of timely access, inaccessibility, unawareness, bad timing of television programs, poor economic conditions, infrequent visits of extension staff, low level of education and language barriers were the primary obstacles in information acquisition. The results will be helpful for extension agents and librarians of the public libraries in the area while making adjustments for efficient and effective information delivery. This study would make a contribution in the existing research on farmers’ crop-specific information behaviour.
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