A TERM PAPER ON THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION IN NIGERIA AND ONDO STATE BY ALE‚ A.B (AEE/09/8837) SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR EWUOLA AEE 835 COURSE LECTURER JUNE‚ 2010 Introduction The history of a particular subject‚ people‚ profession or any phenomenon provides a record of events which took place in the past to enable us to appreciate the status‚ strengths and weaknesses of the events which took place in the past. This serves as a guide to others so as not to fall into
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THE ROLE OF EXTENSION IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT by Ifeoma Irohibe Department of Agricultural Extension‚ University of Nigeria‚ Nsukka Agriculture is the science of cultivating crops and rearing animals for the benefit of man and also includes other processes such as processing‚ storage and marketing of agricultural produce. The agricultural sector is essential in the economic development and poverty alleviation drive of many sectors. The importance of this sector is more pronounced in developing
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The Recent Experience on Agricultural Extension Service Delivery in Ethiopian By Yared Awgichew Ministry of Science and Technology of Ethiopia P o. Box 2490 Fax +251-011-1-562728 Tel +251-091-7-813751 ------------------------------------------------- Email: yaredawgichew@rocketmail.com ------------------------------------------------- Abstract Eighty-five percent of Ethiopians live in rural areas and deriving their livelihoods from agriculture. Since the Ethiopian people revolutionary
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Higher Agricultural Education Institutions in Asia CASE STUDY FOR THE PHILIPPINES: THE OPEN ACADEMY FOR PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE1 Alexander G. Flor2 U.P. Open University 1. Introduction 1.1. Philippine Extension and the OPAPA: A Backgrounder In the past twenty years‚ the Philippine agricultural extension service has been severely emasculated by four factors: the abolition of the national agricultural extension system; decentralization or devolution of extension services; the top-down perception of
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Halmstad University School of Business and Engineering Master Dissertation in International Marketing Master Dissertation in Strategic Management and Leadership The Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities in Brand Extension Authors: Chen Si Jia 891028-4986 Gu Jing 880711-T284 Supervisor: Gabriel Awuah Date of Submission: 31 May‚ 2012 Acknowledgements We would like to firstly thank our supervisor‚ Professor Gabriel Awuah‚ for his constant support and inspiring advices during
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Brand Extensions are an important brand growth strategy The popularity of ‘Brand extensions’ rose since 1990s‚ with the increase in competition and the high costs of developing new brands (Chernatony & McDonald‚ 2002). This concept has been derived by marketers to optimize sales and profits by launching new or modified products under the parent brand name. In definition ‘Brand extension’ is using the leverage of a well-known brand name in one category to launch a new product in a different category
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An agricultural cooperative‚ also known as a farmers’ co-op‚ is a cooperative where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives‚ which provide various services to their individually farming members‚ and agricultural production cooperatives‚ where production resources (land‚ machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly.[1] Examples of agricultural production cooperatives include collective
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mechanization is the provision of human workers and replacement of animal labour with machinery to assist and replace physical requirement of work. Therefore agricultural mechanization embraces and implements the use of tools and machines for agricultural development‚ crop production‚ harvesting‚ storage and on farming processing. In the history of agricultural mechanization‚ a periodical development of agriculture has enhanced several advancements in farming techniques and tools were manifested. During the
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Tasks Performed‚ Training needs‚ Extension agents‚ ADP‚ An assessment of Training Needs of Extension Workers: A case study of KWADP Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background to the study The crux of Agricultural extension is to bring about changes‚ through education and communication in farmers attitude‚ knowledge and skills so as to improve farmers’ general welfare. Extension Agents play an essential role in the delivery of agricultural programs conducted by the Agricultural Development Programmes in all
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help farmers produce more. In agricultural extension education is designed for building a lined professional extension service that is capable of guiding the farmers in agricultural production and raising their income by providing meaningful plans for the development of their countries. This Training and Visit system was developed by World Bank Expert (Benor‚ D. & M. Baxter .‚ 1984).(Maunder‚ 1973) Stated that “The Training and Visit system in Agricultural Extension Education is designed for building
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