53 pages., The study was design to investigate the information needs and resources utilization of rice farmers in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria.. The study adopted descriptive research design. The population of the study comprises rice farmers in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. The sample size of 70 rice farmers was drawn from the population using simple random sampling technique. A self-design questionnaire was used as instrument of data collection. Frequency counts and percentages were used to analyzed the collected data. The findings of the study indicated that, rice farmers need information. The study also indicated that, the information resources needed by rice farmers in Anyiin are journals and pamphlets. The findings of the study showed that, the sources of information used by rice farmers in the area under study are extension services, research institutes and public library. The study also showed that, the rice farmers need information to get improved varieties, modern farm technology, market location, agricultural loan and credit facilities. The information needs of the rice farmers under study are not being satisfied. The study showed that, the rice farmers are faced with the problem of high cost of information resources, inadequate funds and high level of illiteracy. The study concluded that a great number of rice farmers encountered difficulties in utilizing information resources to meet up their information needs. This is either because, most of the information resources are not adequately provided. The study recommended amongst others that, Government should organize and provide agricultural workshops for farmers. This is because, through this workshops and conferences, farmers will be trained on modern farming technique which in will help improve their farmer produces.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 200 Document Number: D09827
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No date. Has been digitized and added to University Library Medusa Repository - Collection Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Multimedia Collection, Repository ACES (Funk) Library
15 pages, Sustainable agricultural technologies are of great significance in fully utilizing agricultural resources and promoting agricultural production. However, the adoption rates of these technologies are often characterized as low in rural areas in China. To figure out the potential salient determinants of rice farmers’ willingness to adopt sustainable agricultural technologies, this paper, by employing the multivariate probit model and ordered probit model, particularly and firstly explores the roles of observational learning and experience-based learning through communication from parents within the household on rice farmers’ willingness to adopt these technologies. Results show that there are strong complementarities and substitutabilities between sustainable agricultural technologies that rice farmers are willing to adopt, and that observational learning and experience-based learning through communication within the household do have pronounced effects on rice farmers’ willingness to adopt some sustainable agricultural technologies and on their intensive use intentions. Therefore, while formulating policies to improve the adoption rates and adoption intensity of these technologies, relevant government agencies should take the complementarities and substitutabilities between sustainable agricultural technologies as well as observational learning and experience-based learning through communication from parents into consideration.
Byrnes, Francis C. (author / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, cali, Columbia, S.A.) and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, cali, Columbia, S.A.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1948
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05607
Linton, Ralph (author) and Kardiner, Abram (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1952
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12489
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Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 222-231 in Guy E. Swanson, Theodore M. Newcomb and Eugene L. Hartley (eds.), Readings in Social Psychology, Revised Edition. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 680 p.
Niehoff, Arthur H. (author) and Anderson, J. Charnel (author)
Format:
Bibliography
Publication Date:
1960
Published:
International: George Washington University, Alexandria, Virginia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes5 Document Number: C12472
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Human Resources Research office, a nongovernmental agency of George Washington University. 30 p., Annotated bibliography of development-related case histories, by country.
Pages 69-70 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of thesis for the master of science degree in agricultural extension education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 1961. 77 pages.
Byrnes, Francis C. (author / International Rice Research Institute, Laguna, Philippines) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Laguna, Philippines
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1966
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12229
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 271-281in 1966 Annual Report of IRRI
International: Development Advisory Service, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20434
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Economic Development Report No. 154. Presented at the summer meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Columbia, Missouri, August 9-12, 1970. 44 pages.
Sahay, B.N. (author), Singh, I.B. (author), and Ph.D. student, Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Dy. Director (S.W.), P.E.O., Planning Commission, New Delhi, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1970-09
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04461
Golden, W. G. (author) and Sirinayake, D.W. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1971-04
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes1 Document Number: C12147
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Presented at the International Rice Research Conference, International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines. 13 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes9; Folder: IRRI File Document Number: C12666
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Presented at the International Rice Seminar, International Rice Research Institute, Laguna, Philippines, April 1971. 8 p.
International: International Rice Research Institute, Laguna, Philippines.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12490
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 19-40 in International Rice Research Institute, Rice, science and man. Collection of papers presented at the 10th anniversary celebration of IRRI, April 20-21, 1972. 163 p.
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Paper presented at Latin America Rice Policy Symposium, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia. 1972. 24 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17027
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Pages 52-77 in Robert A. Solo and Everett M. Rogers (eds.), Inducing technological change for economic growth and development. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing. 238 pages.
International: International Rice Research Institute, Laguna, Philippines.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12482
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 77-87 in International Rice Research Institute, Rice, science and man. Collection of papers presented at the 10th anniversary celebration of IRRI, April 20-21, 1972. 163 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17028
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Pages 78-82 in Robert A. Solo and Everett M. Rogers (eds.), Inducing technological change for economic growth and development. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing. 238 pages.
International: International Rice Research Institute, Laguna, Philippines.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12483
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 105-114 in International Rice Research Institute, Rice, science and man. Collection of papers presented at the 10th anniversary celebration of IRRI, April 20-21, 1972. 163 p.
Phase 1, INTERPAKS, Both research in agricultural technology and construction of land infrastructure are characterized by indivisibility, externality, and jointness in supply and utilization. The theory of public good economics of the Samuelson-Musgrave tradition tells us that the goods and services with such attributes cannot be supplied at socially optimum levels if the supply is left to private firms within a competitive market mechanism. Public investments are required to correct for such market failure. The need for public institutions to conduct adaptive research and to build and coordinate the use of irrigation systems is especially critical in Asian agriculture, where the possibility for farm producers to conduct such activities by themselves is limited. In this article, the author attempts to demonstrate the critical importance of adaptive research and land infrastructure investment in the process of diffusion of agricultural technology, drawing on the history of rice technology development in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, in contrast to the more recent development of rice technology in South and Southeast Asia, which has been heralded as the "green revolution". He attempts to identify what institutions have to be evolved for satisfying the basic requirements for technology diffusion in agriculture, and to infer what forces were responsible for inducing such institutional evolution.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes4; Folder: Green Revolution Game File Document Number: D01656
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection., Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 23 pages.
Drilon, J.D., Jr. (author / Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture) and Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes12; 31 Document Number: B03093
Notes:
Mason E. Miller Collection; Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, In: Communication strategies for rural development : proceedings of the Cornell-CIAT International Symposium; 1974 March 17-22; Cali, Colombia, S.A. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University, 1974. p. 117-126
Ross, Vernon E. (author) and Leader, Training and Communication, CIAT, Cali, Colombia
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 129 Document Number: C19269
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, In: Strategies for agricultural education in developing countries : Agricultural Education Conference I. 1974 October 15. [New York] : Rockefeller Foundation, 1974. p. 359-402
