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2. A study on farmer’s perception on ill effects of agro chemicals in north eastern part of Karnataka
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shashidhara, K. K. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- Applied and Natural Science Foundation
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10645
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied and Natural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 (4): 2158 - 2164
- Notes:
- 8 pages., via online journal., The present study was conducted in Yadgir district of Karnataka to know about the perception of farmers on the ill effects of agro chemicals. One hundred and twenty farmers were interviewed personally with the help of pre-structured schedule. The results revealed that a large number of respondents had perceived delay in ripening (70.83%), less resistance to diseases (76.66 %), through emission of toxic gases (80.83%) and changes in soil organic matter decomposition (80.00%). Cent per cent respondents expressed resistance developed to pesticides by helicoverpa, spodoptera and parthenium and beneficial organisms like earth worms and predators were affected. Killing of natural enemies by pesticides affect Trichograma (80.00%) and lady bird beetle (75.00%), while handling agro chemicals cent per cent perceived it is going poison human body. The correlation indicates attitude towards chemical fertilizers, extension participation and mass media had shown positive highly significant at 1% level. Regarding factors influencing on agro chemicals land holding and education observe 50.63 per cent of variation. On the other hand farmers were suggested to make the availability of pest resistance variety by majority (83.33%) of the respondents.
3. Adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) for development of Indian agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tanaji, Gaikwad Shridhar (author), Desai, Sudhir B. (author), Kolekar, A.B. (author), and Department of Technology (YCSRD), Shivaji University Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- India: Indian Institute of Technology; Bombay; India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08050
- Journal Title:
- International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 (4): 761-765
4. Changing perceptions, attitudes, and practices : U.S. farmers and environmental issues
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Bulletin
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07166
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, [s.l.] : Cooperative Extension System, USDA, [1993]. 2 p.
5. Climate change typologies and audience segmentation among corn belt farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arbuckle, J.G. (author), Tyndall, J.C. (author), Morton, L.W. (author), and Hobbs, J. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05
- Published:
- USA: Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10145
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 72(3): 205-214
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Development of natural resource user typologies has been viewed as a potentially effective means of improving the effectiveness of natural resource management engagement strategies. Prior research on Corn Belt farmers’ perspectives on climate change employed a latent class analysis (LCA) that created a six-class typology—the Concerned, Uneasy, Uncertain, Unconcerned, Confident, and Detached—to develop a better understanding of farmer perspectives on climate change and inform more effective climate adaptation and mitigation outreach strategies. The LCA employed 34 variables that are generally unobservable—beliefs about climate change, experience with extreme weather, perceived risks of climate change, and attitudes toward climate action—to identify types. The research reported in this paper builds on this typology of Corn Belt farmers by exploring 33 measures of observable farm enterprise characteristics, land management practices, and farmer demographics to assess whether variations in these observable characteristics between the six farmer classes display systematic patterns that might be sufficiently distinctive to guide audience segmentation strategies. While analyses detected some statistically significant differences, there were few systematic, meaningful observable patterns of difference between groups of farmers with differing perspectives on climate change. In other words, farmers who believe that anthropogenic climate change is occurring, that it poses risks to agriculture, and that adaptive action should be taken, may look very much like farmers who deny the existence of climate change and do not support action. The overall implication of this finding is that climate change engagement efforts by Extension and other agricultural advisors should use caution when looking to observable characteristics to facilitate audience segmentation. Additional analyses indicated that the farmer types that tended to be more concerned about climate change and supportive of adaptive action (e.g., Concerned and Uneasy) reported that they were more influenced by key private and public sector actors in agricultural social networks. On the other hand, farmers who were not concerned about climate change or supportive of adaptation (e.g., the Unconcerned, Confident, and Detached groups, comprising between one-third and one-half of respondents) were less integrated into agricultural networks. This suggests that Extension and other agricultural advisors should expand outreach efforts to farmers who are not already within their spheres of influence.
6. Climate change vulnerability, adaptation and risk perceptions at farm level in Punjab, Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abid, Muhammad (author), Schilling, Janpeter (author), Scheffran, Juergen (author), Zulfiqar, Farhad (author), and Univ Hamburg, Inst Geog, Res Grp Climate Change & Secur CLISEC, Grindelberg 7, D-20144 Hamburg, Germany Sch Integrated Climate Syst Sci, Grindelberg 5, D-20144 Hamburg, Germany Int Alert, London, England Asian Inst Technol, Sch Environm Resources & Dev, Bangkok, Thailand
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03-15
- Published:
- Pakistan: Elsevier B.V.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08226
- Journal Title:
- Science of the Total Environment
- Journal Title Details:
- 547: 447-460
7. Engaging farmers in environmental management through a better understanding of behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mills, Jane (author), Gaskell, Peter (author), Ingram, Julie (author), Dwyer, Janet (author), Reed, Matt (author), Short, Christopher (author), and University of Gloucestershire
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06-15
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11282
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(2017) : 283-299
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal, The United Kingdom’s approach to encouraging environmentally positive behaviour has been three-pronged, through voluntarism, incentives and regulation, and the balance between the approaches has fluctuated over time. Whilst financial incentives and regulatory approaches have been effective in achieving some environmental management behavioural change amongst farmers, ultimately these can be viewed as transient drivers without long-term sustainability. Increasingly, there is interest in ‘nudging’ managers towards voluntary environmentally friendly actions. This approach requires a good understanding of farmers’ willingness and ability to take up environmental activities and the influences on farmer behavioural change. The paper aims to provide insights from 60 qualitative farmer interviews undertaken for a research project into farmers’ willingness and ability to undertake environmental management, particularly focusing on social psychological insights. Furthermore, it explores farmers’ level of engagement with advice and support networks that foster a genuine interest, responsibility and a sense of personal and social norm to sustain high quality environmental outcomes. Two conceptual frameworks are presented for usefully exploring the complex set of inter-relationships that can influence farmers’ willingness to undertake environmental management practices. The research findings show how an in-depth understanding of farmer’s willingness and ability to adopt environmental management practices and their existing level of engagement with advice and support are necessary to develop appropriate engagement approaches to achieve sustained and durable environmental management.
8. Farmer beliefs about climate change and carbon sequestration incentives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gramig, Benjamin M. (author), Barnard, Jessa M. (author), Prokopy, Linda S. (author), and Purdue Univ, Dept Agr Econ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA Purdue Univ, Dept Forestry & Nat Resources, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- USA: Inter-Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08225
- Journal Title:
- Climate Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (2): 157-167
9. Farmer's willingness to participate in wetland restoration: a hurdle model approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wei, Xuan (author), Guan, Zhengfei (author), and Zhu, Honggen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-08-17
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08317
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 47 (6): 719-727
10. Farmers' perceptions of climate change: identifying types
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hyland, John J. (author), Jones, Davey L. (author), Parkhill, Karen A. (author), Barnes, Andrew P. (author), Williams, APrysor. (author), and School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Springer Science+Business Media, Van Godewijckstraat 30 Dordrecht 3311 GX Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08215
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 33 (2): 323-339