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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Chapter 16: Mobile Marketing and Related Developments MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The adoption stage in which a new product has become a part of the user’s lifestyle is called: a. permanent adoption. b. loyalty. c. internalization. ANS: C REF: p. 441 2. ________ is a product characteristic that determines ease of adoption. a. Relative advantage b. Sustainable advantage c. Substitutability ANS: A REF: p. 441 3. Among the strategic implications of pervasive computing
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NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Hello‚ my name is Mesoma Ejeh and I’ll be talking about Nigeria. Off all the feautures of Nigeria that acronym missed a very important one.It’s my home.Probably 98% of this class knows little to nothing about Nigeria so I will cover our foods and drinks‚our people and culture‚our fashion and its impact to the world and Nigeria’s location‚season‚weather and cilmate. For Starters Nigeria is in west Africa.North of Nigeria would be Niger‚ south‚ the Atlantic Ocean and the
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specific references to Nigeria. Introduction Organization is the human capacity to harness all available information‚ knowledge‚ resources‚ technology‚ infrastructure‚ and human skills to exploit new opportunities and to face challenges and hurdles that block progress. Development by this position is believed to be comeby through improvements in the human capacity for organization. The view also underscore the argument of the development scholars known as social development theorists who posit that
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Christine Moorman & Roland T. Rust The Role of Marketing As marketing gains increasing prominence as an orientation that everyone in the organization shares and as a process that all functions participate in deploying‚ a critical issue that arises is the role of the marketing function. Specifically‚ what role should the marketing function play‚ and what value does the marketing function have‚ if any‚ in an organization that has a strong market orientation? The authors take the view that though a
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NIGERIA The Federal Republic of Nigeria comprises thirty six states and its Federal Capital Territory is Abuja. Nigeria is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The Flag The flag of Nigeria consists of three equal sized vertical stripes - the right and left stripe are green; and the middle stripe is white. The Nigerian
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THE ROLE OF ASSUMPTIONS IN ECONOMICS If you ask a physicist how long it would take for a marble to fall from the top of a ten-story building‚ she will answer the question by assuming that the marble falls in a vacuum. Of course‚ this assumption is false. In fact‚ the building is surrounded by air‚ which exerts friction on the falling marble and slows it down. Yet the physicist will correctly point out that friction on the marble is so small that its effect is negligible. Assuming the marble falls
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E-Man 251 Marketing Breaking the Trade-Off between Efficiency & Service Analysis Frances X. Frei’s article in the November 2006 Harvard Business Review discusses ways service businesses need to deal with customer variability. Her beings with an example of a business that have their customers show room floor and how customers aren’t simply opening their wallets‚ they are involved in the ongoing operation of the company. Even though Ms.Frei focuses on service businesses‚ her article provides
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Economic development has to occur after a period of sustained economic growth. It is therefore the growth in total economic output accompanied by changes in the structure of the economy. There are many barriers to economic development in Ghana. Eight of them are discussed below: First and foremost‚ Ghana like most developing countries is enriched with natural resources or deposits but the human capital is not able to transform them to achieve rapid economic growth and development. For economic
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Role of Government The government provides the legal framework and the services needed for a market economy to operate effectively. The legal framework sets the legal status of business enterprises‚ ensures the rights of private ownership‚ and allows the making and enforcement of contracts. Government also establishes the legal "rules of the game" that control relationships among business‚ resource suppliers‚ and consumers. Discrete units of government referee economic relationships‚ seek out foul
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