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Mortality Among Agricultural Extension Agents

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1988
AbstractThe mortality experience of agricultural extension agents in the Cooperative Extension Service (CES) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture who died during the period January 1, 1970‐December 31, 1979 (n = 1,495 white males) was evaluated in proportionate‐mortality and case‐control studies.
M C, Alavanja, A, Blair, S, Merkle, J, Teske, B, Eaton   +4 more
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Extension in Agricultural Economics

1934
Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Seventh Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, June 21-22 ...
Vaughan, L.M., Vaughan, L.M.
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COMPENDIUM Climate-smart agriculture & extension Supporting agricultural extension

2016
the Compendium provides examples of more than 20 different approaches of how agricultual extensions can support climate-smart agriculture , wicth contributions of more than 17 Institutions and over 30 contributors worldwide.
Simone Sala, Federica Rossi, Soniia David Editors   +2 more
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Agricultural extension workers' perception of cyber extension

International Journal of Frontiers in Life Science Research
Mastery of various information system technologies in the agricultural sector greatly supports the competence of agricultural extension agents. Extension agents must possess adequate competencies before conducting extension activities, education, or training for farmers to strengthen farmers' perceptions of technological innovation. This study aims to:
null Osad Imron Rosadi, null Hepi Hapsari, null Lucyana Trimo   +2 more
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Agricultural extension and research

1997
This report reviews the World Bank's experience in supporting the development of national agricultural research and extension systems in developing countries in the early 1980s and 1990s, and makes recommendations for future support. The review covers all of the Bank's operational regions, excepting East and Central Asia (represented by Turkey only ...
Dennis L. Purcell, Jock R. Anderson
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Agriculture and agricultural extension work : an ergonomic approach.

2004
The agricultural sector still offers a lot of opportunities for ergonomists even if it looses its symbolic value and decreases in terms of working force. Questions addressed to ergonomics concern as well the design of working situations, the monitoring of dynamic processes (crops, herds, on-farm food processing), or the risks and accidents occurring on
Cerf, Marianne, Sagory, P.
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Chapter 44 Agricultural Extension

2007
Abstract In this chapter we analyze the considerations that lead policy makers to undertake extension investments as a key public responsibility, as well as the complex set of factors and intra-agency incentives that explain why different extension systems' performance varies. Accordingly, the chapter provides a conceptual framework outlining farmers'
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Agricultural Extension: Worldwide Innovations

2008
Agricultural extension is in a great transition worldwide. The demand for public extension reform is greater than ever before. The agriculture knowledge infrastructure is evolving in a big way with the emergence of pluralistic extension actors and innovations to cater the needs of the farmeThis book is an attempt to document the past experiences and ...
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Agricultural Extension Worldwide

2021
William M. Rivera, Susan G. Schram
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Extensive Margins in Agriculture

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, 2009
This paper examines whether the growth in agricultural trade of 69 countries between 1996 and 2006 has taken place at the intensive or the extensive margin. The paper addresses the questions: have agricultural exports during this period expanded more through the intensive margin (more exports of established goods to traditional partners) or through the
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