Characteristics Of Respondents During Ict Utilization

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.

The Internet Age has become a time in which computer technology has not been envisioned as a luxury, but rather a necessity in many parts of daily living. And as the positive impacts of technology use in the workplace, and education setting, becomes a reality then so does the negative consequences. However, the ability to deal with the negative consequences may be more difficult to deal with for adolescents and young adults who heavily use technology for social media, text messaging, and web surfing. As these impressionable sectors of society learn to navigate their place in the world with the aid of technology, they are experiencing an inordinate amount of

Although the results ultimately show that agriculture is complex and it is becoming more interdisciplinary. With this in mind, I think it is important to sustain agriculture, but I also feel that land grant colleges are integral to the industry. Although, I do agree with those who think that expanding the study and practice of agriculture beyond those institutions will provide more opportunities. The author of this journal has similar views in that, agriculture is important and everyone should understand where there food comes from. We simply need more research to fully understand both the curricular and co-curricular learning objectives. The research does however, demonstrate environmental and social sustainability, but I don’t think it is enough. Agriculture does play a very important role in our daily lives and we simply need to get students to understand by starting with the basics. The idea of agriculture projects in higher education is great, but I think there are more effective programs and ways to go about

Although I am not from a farm, I think I am still closely related to agriculture since my major is nutrition. As a nutrition major, it is important to know the chemistry of food and plants, the growing places of crops in the United States, the way farmer grow the crops, the benefits and risks behind organic crops, the benefits and risks of GMO and the potential food safety problems associated to pathogens, pesticides, toxicity. Besides, knowing how much crop grown and crop prices can give me a more complete picture on nutrition. Since food costs and availability influences people’s food choices and their nutrient intake. For example, the high costs for vegetables is one of the reason that causes obesity problem in the United States. Besides, one of my aunt is currently living in China, she owned a farmland and grow crops such as sweet potatoes, choy sum for her family.

Throughout time, humans have pushed forward in every aspect in life in order to improve their living standards, wealth and most importantly the agricultural sector which is the base of every human race. Food is the basic requirement for any individual to stay alive and healthy. In an article by Tamsin McMahon, she states that over the past 60 years, the world population has grown from 2.5 billion to 7 billion while world hunger dropped from 40% down to 15% (McMahon T., July 2012). This shows that our agricultural advances through technology have helped control world hunger and decrease it by more than half, but this is a short-term solution if we want to consider the future generations that depend on our current actions toward the three main pillars of agriculture which are: Health and nutrition, Economy and sustainability all while considering the local small farms and corporate farms.

Situation: We have to conduct on-farm trials in south-west Ontario to evaluate a limited set of agronomic, environmental and economic indicators under real world conditions. We had a very detailed/complex design for small plot research and wanted to repeat the similar experiment in farmers’ field…..but farmers’ were having problem in implementing/ conducting ‘on-farm’ research.

The total sample size would be 300 including vegetable growers (community gardens and allotment gardens), policy makers, managers/owners of ethnic stores, formal seed stores and the planned sample size would be 168 at 2% significance level. However, the sample size could be varied due to some restrictions such as limited amount of time and the unavailability of stakeholders and natural calamities. The findings from this sample, therefore, will be generalized to the population.

As students enrolled in High School we are often attacked with a barrage of questions; “What field are you going into?”, “Are you ready for college?”, “What are you interested in?”, and many others. When we answer that “we aren’t quite sure yet”, we are told we don’t have much time. The truth is that we really don’t. Our four high school years pass by in a blink and before we know it we are registering for college. Deciding on your major can be an immense decision that will affect the career you go into. There are many fields one can study when considering that pertain to agriculture; learning about them, deciding which job is for you, and preparing now, are significant factors to contemplate.

Farming in Africa is inadequate and inefficient. The fertility of the soil is becoming depleted and severely reducing the amount of crops from each harvest (Ayieko). This problem is due to over farming the land and not allowing for crop rotation to replenish the nutrients in the soil. This is a practice that is used by most farmers around the globe. Continuing on this trend will risk the land becoming barren and unable to support plant life.

The evaluation will consist of a comparison of the member data collected from the three years prior to the expansion as well as data collected six months and one year after the first harvest. Data from before the expansion will be compared to data after the expansion to see if we are indeed able to help more people. All member data on record will be analyzed to determine the impact the expansion had over membership numbers. We will also look to see if the percentage of low or no income members has increased. Harvest data will be collected from the two years prior to the expansion and for the first year after the first harvest post expansion. The weight of each harvest as well as crop type will be used to determine the actual increase in crop yield of the new farming techniques compared to traditional farming

People live in different areas of the country. These areas may have different types of soil. The types of soil may be rich top soil, sandy soil, and rocky soil. Many people want to grow their own vegetables and the type of soil could affect the way vegetables will grow. This research is scientifically important because it will show how vegetables grow in different types of soil. This would have an impact on society because it would help those who wanted to grow a vegetable garden on how to best prepare the garden soil for radishes.

In chapter 14 of Visualizing Environmental Science, Berg begins by defining undernutrition and over nutrition and the problem with the world and the food problems. Then continues to discuss the principal type of agriculture. Such as Industrialized agriculture and subsistence agriculture. There are also three types of subsistence agriculture, which are shifting cultivation, nomadic herding and intercropping. Berg also mentions the challenges of agriculture and the solution to the agricultural problems. Some of the solution are sustainable agriculture and genetic engineering. Lastly, this chapter discusses the controlling of agricultural pests and the definition of pests. Pesticide also can lead to several problem.

Throughout my experience of taking the Agricultural Leadership and Agronomy I continued and increase development and understanding into not only agriculture but also the world of agronomy. The many experiences were very rewarding from beginning to end. Firstly, the monthly meetings where I connected with colleagues not only in regards of academics but also had the opportunity to build relationships and friendships that will last a lifetime.

For the most part indigenous individuals are ignorant so they would prefer not to utilize smartphones so is it conceivable to show them how to utilize, yes it is totally conceivable to utilize phones the main thing is ICT individuals make a product in their in their own particular language then it will be extremely use to interface with them. Australians are dismissing Western qualities implanted in the innovation. Be that as it may, firmly identified with the issue of Indigenous appropriation of PC innovation is the capacity of Indigenous Australians to get to ICTs. Absence of value of access is most likely adequate to clarify the low reception rates, without falling back on social contentions.

Tanzania, an agrarian country has ARIs in place for the purpose of strengthening the development of agriculture through the provision of science-based agricultural research innovation generation and improved farm practices. It is through participatory approaches, researchers from ARIs provide agricultural information services for enhancing farmers to make rational decisions concerning agricultural production and post-harvest practices (Mtega and Malekani, 2009). The use of ICTs in dissemination and communicating agriculture research output to the rural farmers and other actors remains to be important. The participatory ICT developments in the agricultural sector can be achieved only if agricultural researchers and Government organizations can learn from farmers by using the participatory approaches (Joseph and Andrew, 2008). Table 1 shows a comparison of different participatory approaches towards development of ICTs in agriculture sector.