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    1. Climate change brings challenges and opportunities, panel says

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Karst, Tom (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020-08-20
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11714
    Journal Title:
    Packer
    Notes:
    Via online issue. 3 pages., Summary of panel discussion at a Virtual Town Hall meeting of the Produce Marketing Association. Panelists noted how greenhouse technologies can soften the blow of climate change.

    2. Diversity in success: Interaction between external interventions and local actions in three rice farming areas in Benin

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Totin, Edmond (author), Mierlo, Barbara van (author), Mongbo, Roch (author), Leeuwis, Cees (author), and Wageningen University, The Netherlands Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014-11-21
    Published:
    Benin: Science Direct
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10957
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural Systems
    Journal Title Details:
    133(2015) : 119-130
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    12 pages, via online journal, Since the rice crisis of 2007, the government of Benin has initiated many programmes for rice intensification. Comparison of three rice production areas shows that local rice production has indeed been increased by the facilities provided by the government programmes. Although broadly the same facilities (market outlet, credit, input, etc.) were provided to rice farmers in the three study areas, which are located close to one another, there are not only similar, but also some different outcomes with regard to farmers' practices. There were also some unexpected changes, like the shift from limited collective canal cleaning to individual canal cleaning in Koussin-Lélé and the use of pumps in upland areas in Bamè. The study explores the interplay between these external interventions of government programmes and local actions of farmers to explain the outcomes. Using an actor-oriented perspective, the study concludes that farmers' agency played a critical role in the success of interventions; the changes occurred because of local actions of the farmers and intermediaries interacting with the external interventions at diverse junctures. Differences in strategies for resolving livelihood problems, in production options and biophysical conditions influence farmers' local actions and contribute to the explanation of the diversity of outcomes. The main lesson drawn from this research is that evaluation studies should not consider external interventions as the only or primary source of change. The dynamic interplay between local agency, intermediation and external interventions makes room for change.

    4. Evaluation of farmers appreciation in reducing pesticide by organic farming practice

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Indraningsih (author), Sani, Yulvian (author), and Widiastuti, Raphaella (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    Indonesia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08763
    Journal Title:
    Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Science
    Journal Title Details:
    6(2) : 59-68

    5. Exploring usage of smartphone among farmers of district bahawalnagar for agricultural extension information

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Riaz, Saqib (author), Iqbal, Ashraf (author), and Husain, Basharat (author)
    Format:
    journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022-09-02
    Published:
    Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12678
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agricultural Research
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 60, N. 3
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    5 pages, The current study also focuses and analyses the farmers’ inclination and their usage of smart phone for agricultural extension. This research is based on survey research method in which a closed-ended questionnaire was developed after the review of relevant literature. Furthermore, purposive and convenient sampling techniques were used to collect the data from the respondents who are farmers in Punjab. The study was conducted during the year 2020 in the selected district of Bahawalnagar. Overall results elaborate that age and education were among the factors that accounted for familiarity with apps. However, 42.9 percent of the respondents with the age 30 to 40 were somehow familiar with Agri-apps and 17.3 percent of respondents with twelve years of schooling were familiar with the apps usage. Likewise, 37 respondents in age bracket of 20 to 30 were of the view that usage of apps have resulted in increased agricultural production. It was concluded that age and education of the respondents had significant impact on the usage and familiarity of the apps available on smart phones.

    6. Farmers’ perceptions regarding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern Pakistan

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    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.

    7. How to communicate with farmers about climate change: Farmers’ perceptions and adaptations to increasingly variable weather patterns in Maine (USA)

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jemison, John M. Jr. (author), Hall, Damon (author), Welcomer, Stephanie (author), and Haskell, Jane (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014-07-23
    Published:
    New Leaf Associates, Inc
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10991
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
    Journal Title Details:
    4(4):57-70
    Notes:
    14 pages., via online journal., While dealing with weather variability has always been a source of stress for farmers, a generally warmer, wetter climate with the potential for increasingly intensive precipitation poses a threat to long-term farm viability. Knowing how farmers think about increasingly variable weather patterns (IVWP) is important for educators, agency staff, and others to learn how to work with producers on adaptation strategies to protect natural resources and prevent crop failure. In 2011, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension conducted focus group sessions with farmers from seven different commodity groups, five mixed farmer sessions, and two sessions with consultants, educators, and agency staff who work with growers to learn about grower perceptions of environmental changes, and to learn about changes they may be making to their farming operations to protect their operations from IVWP. Farmers discussed over 40 practices that could be construed as adaptation measures to buffer against IVWP. Fruit (apple and blueberry) growers spent the most time on the subject and expressed the most concern about the effects of IVWP, while dairy and potato growers spent the least. Given the divergence of opinion on the subject of climate change that Maine growers expressed, successful outreach education through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cooperative Extension should likely emphasize short-term risk management, resilience, and stability of farm operations as opposed to communicating the need to adopt strategies based on climate change.