Cases of Multiple Providers of Agricultural Extension Service in Bangladesh

Under National Agro-Food Policy, agriculture sector has been identified as a National Key Result Area. Under this initiative, the agriculture sector is targeted to increase the Gross National Income by RM28.9 Billion (USD9.1 billion) to reach RM49.1 billion (USD15.4 billion) by 2020. The agricultural sector is also targeted to create more than 109,000 job opportunities by 2020, primarily in the rural areas.

"I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words, but of deeds." These famous words from "The FFA Creed" by E.M. Tiffany outline the basic beliefs of FFA members and agriculturists around the world. But these values, although crucial to the sustaining of our world's ever-increasing population, are growing more and more detached from the people not involved in agriculture. Although food and fiber production has increased in recent years, providing more bushels per acre and more meat per head of cattle, the agriculture industry has come under fire due to an overwhelming majority of people being totally disconnected from the agriculture industry. Today, we'll examine the primary causes of this disconnect, the negative effects on agriculture and our society as a whole that results from it, and how you can help solve this ever-growing problem.

The price per acre of farm land doubled to $2,140 over the last 10 years. A lack of health care also hurts farmers as farming ranks as the fourth most dangerous occupation in the country, and young farmers often must choose between health care and paying for their farm. All of these obstacles and more make farming a difficult occupation to enter. We need organizations such as Young Farmers’ to provide support, education and training to help our nation’s most important

Self-Help International has a variety of projects in third world countries. These projects have several objectives that they address including training small-scale farmers to improve their methods of farming and transportation. They are also assisting in dealing with post-harvest problems of storage, processing, and marketing. Another objective is training people in the use of Quality Protein

A significant part of all land-grant universities is Cooperative Extension (MSU, n.d). It is a partnership between the land-grant universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work. Today, the Extension Service provides research and non-formal education programs “traditional Extension” or “reaching out” to meet public needs. In Mississippi, county and regional extension offices are providing educational programs on local levels. Mississippi State University Extension Service has been working with farmers and agribusiness owners for over 100 years by providing practical and research-based education programs. The four major program areas covered

Bangladesh is a south Asian country. It is also known as a part of the third world country. Bangladesh has a unstable economy, and in the 21st century we are still dependent on our agricultural economic structure. We are trying quite hard to put an impact in the world economic system. For this we are pursuing the trend of the modernization of the western world. Still we are facing the economic instability. Changing the aspect of our industrialization and economic perspective we are trying our best to fit in the world economic system. To the economic system we are the agriculture based third world country, trying to reach the top.

Thirdly, analysis of the data indicated that all surveyed producers affiliated with a farmer association had received extension support through their membership whereas no independent producer had participated in any form of training . In addition, all of those surveyed who had indicated they were members of a producer organization belonged to organic

Farming is the ancient and the most common profession in Bangladesh. Most of the people of Bangladesh live in village and most of the villagers (62% manpower in agriculture) are involved in farming. One of the main reasons of having common

Historically, Ethiopia has been concerned with subsistence farming rather than for profit. Particularly, mixed agriculture has been the most predominate economic activity for the nation. Due to its location, Ethiopia has no significant variation in its local temperature which helps with the development of self-sufficient agriculture- a critical activity for the population of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is essentially a land of field crops yet hosts a diversity of crops which is surprising because of the relatively constant climate. Methods of farming vary with socioeconomic status and knowledge of the farmers. Along with crops, the potential to grow and develop the livestock economy has a good outlook for Ethiopia. Interestingly enough, the largest herd of livestock in Africa lives in Ethiopia. Although this is true, benefits from the livestock are little compared to the

In contrast, establishing an ideal process of our business is the major task for the commitment. There will be different farms for our different agro products in different districts of Bangladesh. Following farms will be established:

of the respondents are either satisfied (46.5%) or very satisfied (6.9%) with extension service leaving a little less than half (46.5%) in no opinion and dissatisfied category. These findings echoes findings of another study by Akanda & Rokunuzzaman (2012) in Northern Bangladesh on 160 respondents, where 46.9% farmers were found satisfied to moderately satisfied in terms of getting agricultural information.

Since the establishment of the democratic South African government in 1994, visionary policies and programs, strategies and Agricultural education and training governance structures have been established (Didiza, 2005). In 2005 (DoA, 2005), the national agricultural education and training strategy was launched with the aim to address the needs of the country’s economy and improvement of agricultural production through quality Agricultural Education and Training.

The seed policy reforms in Bangladesh contributed to an increase in the number of companies importing seeds from a very limited number focusing on vegetable seeds prior to 1993 to about 100 companies focusing on a broad range of crops in 2011-12. However, these aggregate figures above do not reveal the differences in private sector’s response to seed policy reforms between and within crop segments. Additionally, what is less clear is whether the reforms contributed to increases in crop productivity, the ultimate goal for the reforms. To understand the factors influencing differences in private sectors’ response to seed policy reforms and its impact on crop productivity an understanding of the characteristics of various crop segments is

4. 2009 RVHS Year 5 End of Year Exams Paper CSQ1: Challenges of the Agricultural Sector

The Shasthya Shebika (SS) are female community health volunteers with minimal education or illiterate working under the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) to provide basic health services and sale medical products as a source of income in Bangladesh (9). The programme was set up by the BRAC in 1970 to respond to the human resources for health crisis and has remained to be the backbone of the health system due to the large numbers of volunteers recruited, ability to cover difficult geographical areas as well as rapid mobilisation capacity during the national health campaigns (7). It is estimated that the number of the SS has risen significantly by over 2500% within the past 20 years (9). This may be due to the ability of BRAC to recruit volunteers with minimal or no formal education as opposed to the case of the HSAs in Malawi. In addition, the SS mostly work on part-time basis in the afternoon and their roles include dissemination of health information, provision of family planning services, conducting immunisation programs and selling medical products in the community (25).