Agricultural extension

1.2 Agricultural Extension System: the Bangladesh case In Bangladesh a multitude of agencies from private and public origin offer extension support to the farmers (ASIRP, 2006). Although recent years witness a noticeable change in agricultural extension service providers, the public institutions still remain the dominant. The new entrants to the field include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector agribusiness enterprises and grass-root institutions eg. Self-Help and micro-credit

3.4 Farmer’s satisfaction with extension services This study used five point Likert scale to measure client satisfaction. As very few responses were recorded in very dissatisfied category so this category is merged with dissatisfied category. Slightly more than two third of the farmers are either satisfied (71.1%) or very satisfied (5%) with the content of extension service (Figure 1). Farmer satisfaction is highest with agent’s behavior where 16% farmers are very satisfied and 65.1% satisfied. On

of numerous public and private service providers placed perceived quality as one of the crucial determinant in selecting a product or service. With the aim of determining service quality present study investigate multiple public and private agricultural extension service providers in Bangladesh. SERVQUAL model was employed to measure service quality using face to face interview with 391 respondents. This study was also complimented with qualitative methods like key informant interviews, focus group

measuring agricultural service organizations in no exception (Horri et al., 2012; Rana et al., 2013). Grīnberga-Zālīte (2011) in his study on the assurance of customer-guided training services' quality at rural advisory centers found that SERVQUAL model precisely indicates those criteria of Latvian Rural Advisory and Training Center (LRATC) service quality, which had a lower performance than customer expectation. The SERVQUAL model also used to measure quality of agricultural extension service in

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

Narrative Overview and Overall Summary of Service Service is a critical component of my position as an Extension Agent and as the mission of West Virginia University. For the past five and a half years, my service initiatives yielded quality benefits meeting needs of my community, induced positive changes and had a significant impact to my county, the university, and the youth development profession. I have dedicated time to multiple groups, organizations, events, activities, and programs within

reviewed the agricultural extension practices where extension plays an important role in facilitating changes in a farming community. The literature indicated that there are a lot of extension approaches due to change of ideas, purposes vary, and paradigm shift. It appears that, agricultural extension involves many different approaches and methodologies. And it is managed and delivered through a variety of institutional arrangements. It seems that no single approach best suit extension development

“My kids showed some steers we raised, but we still bought a few from other sellers. Though being the county extension agent had many other duties, I got to work with steers on a daily basis and still run my cattle operation. I understand what it’s like to buy and to sell.” Greg said as a county extension agent, the vast experience he had from supervising 4-H steer projects and assisting beef cattle producers were beneficial to him and his business. “I also

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that is located in the front of the thigh (Jarmey). Within the quadriceps are four separate muscles. These four muscles include the vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius and the rectus femoris (Jarmey). The quadriceps help in the extension and stabilization of the knee, and it also helps in bending the hip (Jones). Another muscle that assists in an activity such as running is the Hamstring. The hamstring is located behind the knee.