Beus, Curtis E. (author), Dunlop, Riley E. (author), and Department of Rural Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04704
Sorensen, A. Ann (author / Assistant Director, Natural and Environmental Resources, American Farm Bureau Federation, Park Ridge, IL) and Assistant Director, Natural and Environmental Resources, American Farm Bureau Federation, Park Ridge, IL
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05027
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; See C05022 for original, In: MacDonald, June Fessenden, ed. Agricultural biotechnology : food safety and nutritional quality for the consumer. Ithaca, NY : National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 1991. p. 103-117
Araujo, Jose Geraldo Fernandes de (author), Machado-Filho, Francisco (author), Ribon, Miguel (author), Rocha, Dilson Seabra (author), and Theibaut, Jose Tarcisio Lima (author)
Format:
Journal article
Language:
Portuguese with English summary
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
Brazil: Vicosa, Brazil : Universidade Federal de Vicosa.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05857
Barbosa, Mariza (author), Junior, Raimundo Gomes (author), Strauss, John (author), Teixeira, Sonia (author), Thomas, Duncan (author), and Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; EMBRAPA-SEP, Brasilia, Brazil; EMBRAPA Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Arroz e Fejao (CNPAF), Goiania, Brazil; Yale University, New Haven, CT; EMBRAPA-SEP, Brasilia, Brazil
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992-08
Published:
Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05924
This paper explores reduced form determinants of the adoption of certain technologies by upland rice and soybean farmers in the Center-West region of Brazil. We merge community level data on the availability and quality of publicly provided infrastructure, principally extension, to the farm level data containing information on farmer human capital as well as land quantity and quality. By using community level measures of availability and quality of extension, we avoid problems of endogeneity of farm level measures of extension use. We find positive impacts of farmer education on the diffusion process, in accordance with other studies. We also isolate effects of the quality in regional extension investment as measured by the average experience of technical extension staff. These results indicate that investments in human capital of extension workers does have a payoff in terms of farmer adoption of improved cultivation practices.
Gladwin, Christina H. (author), Zabawa, Robert (author), Zimet, David (author), and Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06068
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Matlon, Peter; Cantrell, Ronald; King, David; and Benoit-Cattin, Michel, eds. Coming full circle : farmers' participation in the development of technology. Ottawa, Canada : International Development Research Centre, 1984. p. 27-40
Buer, Michelle Van (author), Guither, Harold D. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Department of Agricultural Economics, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06364
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, 1991. 25 p. (AE4675)
Book, Michael (author), Cavanaugh-Grant, Deborah (author), Gerber, John M. (author), Heinzmann, Ken (author), Rahe, Michael (author), Reuschel, Louis (author), Zehr, Douglas (author), and Heinzmann: Vice-president of the Southeastern Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Association, Sandoval, IL; Book: farmer, Harvard, IL; Cavanaugh-Grant: Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Springfield, IL; Gerber: Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Rahe: Division of Natural Resources, Illinois Department of Agriculture, Springfield, IL; Reuschel: farmer, Golden, IL; Zehr: On-Farm Research Coordinator, Illinois Stewardship Alliance, Gibson City, IL
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06372
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, [s.l.] : the State of Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Committee, November 1991. 54 p.
Radhakrishna, Rama (author), Veerabhadraiah, V. (author), and Radhakrishna: Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Veerabhadraiah: Division of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06377
James F. Evans Collection, The primary purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of use of educational methods and subject matter delivered by Extension agents in South Karnataka, India. In addition, the appropriateness of methods used and importance of subject matter delivered was also determined. This study utilized descriptive survey research using all 30 Extension agents employed by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. A response rate of 83 percent was achieved for the study. The findings indicated that agents used a variety of educational methods to educate farmers. Notable among them were discussion meetings, field visits, farm and home visits, whole farm demonstration, and method demonstration. Crop production, vegetable production, new crop varieties, soil fertility, crop pests, and diseases, etc. were the subject matter areas that agents delivered most often. Agents agreed that methods used by them were most appropriate to educate farmers. Further, the subject matter delivered by agents were what they considered most important. (original)
It is an acknowledged fact that agro chemicals specially fertilizer was the fuel that sparked off the ignition of green revolution. Attempts are being made constantly by all those connected directly -- manufacturers, marketeers, distributors, dealers and indirectly -- Department of Agriculture, Cooperatives, Extension Agencies to reach the message to the farming community most effectively. In this process, various media are used as tools. Despite three decades of continuous work, the impact of the result is not commensurate with the efforts. An attempt is made in this paper to analyze each activity critically and scope for improvement. This has been the outcome after a study in 190 villages of southern Karnataka covering about 5,000 farmers by the writer. No importance has been attached to statistics, obviously to make it relatively simpler and more readable. (original)
Kloppenburg, Jack, Jr. (author / Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06474
James F. Evans Collection, As a result of environmental and agrarian activism and of academic critique, a substantial amount of space is available now for moving agricultural technoscience onto new trajectories. A critical rural sociology has played a key role in pushing forward the deconstructive project that has been instrumental in creating this space. And rural sociologists can be active agents in the reconstruction of the alternative science that must emerge from "actually existing" science and that must be developed if there is to be a truly alternative agriculture. But to be effective in this effort we need to enlarge not only the canon of our colleagues in the natural sciences, but our own canon as well. This article suggests that the theoretical resources for such reconstruction are available in contemporary sociological and feminist interpretations of science. Material resources for the reconstruction of a "successor science" are to be found in the "local knowledge" that is continually produced and reproduced by farmers and agricultural workers. Articulations and complementarities between theoretical resources are suggested and potentially productive research areas are outlined. (original)
Flora, Cornelia Butler (author / Department of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA) and Department of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06478
Kaosa-Ard, Mingsarn (author) and Roongruangsee, Chaiwat (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Thailand
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06483
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Agricultural information and technological change in northern Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand : Thailand Development Research Institute, 1989. p. 35-55.
Phase II, This study presents an interpretation of the way Punjabi farmers in a village of the arid Sind perceive the pest hazard and the methods of management that they employ to deal with this situation. It is found that farmers do recognize the seriousness of the problem which consequently leads them to employ traditional as well as pesticide treatment of their crops. But because of financial handicap and other factors, they do not use pesticides regularly or in adequate quantity. As a result the control of pests remains ineffective. (original)
Phase II, The ability of peasant farmers in the third world to monitor environmental occurrences around them has often been ignored. This study looks at Nigerian farmers' perception of pests and pesticides and determines the relevance of such knowledge as an input to efforts to devise effective integrated pest management strategies. Farmers in Kabba area of Kwara State, Nigeria were extensively interviewed and the following findings were highlighted: they had a deep knowledge of all insect, animal and fungi pests; could identify each pest, know their breeding cycles and their general behaviour characteristics; were able to make a relatively accurate assessment of damage caused by pests; and developed an indigenous integrated pest management strategy. Due to massive pest damage in the last few years, and strenuous advertisement by the Ministry of Agriculture, many farmers are now turning to chemical pesticides for solution to the pest problem. Prognosis of future trends in pesticide usage among farmers reveal the likely danger of farmers becoming pesticide-dependent with the consequent possibilities of human poisoning and eventually aggravating the pest problem. (original)
