Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05415
Notes:
; see also B05411, Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, San Jose, Costa Rica: Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences of the OAS, 1968. 125 p. (Miscellaneous Series no. 54)
Awang, A.R. (author / Department of Agricultural Education and Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07941
Notes:
abstracted from Ph.D. thesis, 1992; search through volume, In: Jacquelyn Deeds and Demetria Ford, eds. Summary of Research in Extension (1992-1993). Mississippi State, MS: Department of Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics, Mississippi State University, July 1994. p. 115
Gonzalez, I.M. (author), Lindley, W.I. (author), and Agricultural and Extension Officer at FAO; Agricultural Education at Iowa State University, Ames,Iowa, USA
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08510
Journal Title Details:
31
Notes:
In: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 1983 training for agriculture and rural development; 1984 111-114; Rome
15 pages, Advisory services are considered to play an important role in the development of competitiveness and sustainability in agriculture. Advisory services have been studied at policy level, structural level and within case studies, but there is still restricted knowledge about advisors’ and farmers’ view on advisory services in general. This paper presents the views of Swedish advisors and farmers on advisory services. In a survey-based study, perceptions of farm advisors and full-time farmers in commercial Swedish agriculture on advisory services were identified and statistically analysed, comparing differences between and within the groups. The results are structured around three main themes; motives for a farmer using or not using advisory services, preferred approach by the advisor and future demands on advisory services and their importance today. Possible consequences of differences in perceptions for on-farm service delivery were assessed. Similarities in perceptions on advisory services among advisors and farmers, were found in areas characterised by well-defined questions or production-related issues. Significant differences in perceptions of advisors and farmers emerged in less concrete areas and on topics connected to change, management and strategy. Consequences of discrepancies in perceptions are that advisors may deliver too much, too little or off target, especially when expectations on advisory services are not clearly expressed. A strong and proactive back-office supporting the advisors is needed to prevent these possible consequences.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08130
Notes:
Theodore Hutchcroft Collection; see C08125-C08135, In: P.B. Bueno and A.S. Frio, eds. Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Development Support Communication for Rural Development. Laguna, Philippines: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate and Research in Agriculture, October 1982. p. 55-59
