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A COMPARISON OF EXTENSION METHODS USED BY DIFFERENT AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE PROVIDERS IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA

(HAMK, 2012) Jonna Lukkainen

This Bachelor’s thesis was commissioned by The World Agroforesty Centre and it was written for one of its projects, The East Africa Dairy Development Project. The project aims at improving farmers’ dairy production, market ac cess and generally increasing knowledge among farmers. Four objectives were chosen for this thesis: (1.) to obtain information about extension methods from farmers and extension providers to recommend the use of new extension methods or how to modify the three methods, (2.) to compare the effectiveness of three extension methods, (3.) to identify farmers’ innovations and describe how the innovations are disseminated among the farmers, and (4.) to recommend the most effective extension method to dis seminate research findings and innovations to the farmers. This research includes both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The main method to acquire data was two sets of questionnaires, one given to the farmers and the other one to the extension providers. The data was obtained from two towns, Muki and Ol’kalou, in Kenya in January 2012. The review of the literature explains the concept of extension and extension methods. It focuses on three extension methods: farmer-to-farmer, demonstra tions and dissemination facilitator. It also gives a description of the study ar eas and introduction to organizations and farmer groups involved in the ques tionnaires. The farmers stated farmer-to-farmer as the most effective extension method of these three. The extension providers said that demonstrations is the most ef fective method. According to the survey, there are five variables that affect which extension method is stated to be the most effective one by farmers.

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A PERFROMANCE AUDIT ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS IN THE MINING SECTOR IN TANZANIA

( 2015) Prof. Mussa Juma Assad

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AN EVALUATION OF ACCESS TO AND USE OF AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION BY EXTENSION SERVICE OFFICERS: A CASE STUDY OF MAKUENI COUNTY, KENYA.

( 2013) FRANCIS NJOROGE NG’ANG’A

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EVALUATION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND ADVISORY SERVICES

(USAID, 2011) Murari Suvedi

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Global Review of Good Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service Practices

( 2008) Burton E. Swanson

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ICT Based Services for Agriculture Extension – Phase II

( 2013-06) Mahrukh Siraj ; Atiq-ur-Rehman

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INFLUENCE OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES ON HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN NYAMIRA DISTRICT, NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA.

( 2013) MIGIKA OMBETA ALEX

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INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENTS OF A PROPOSED PRE· SERVICE EDUCATIONAL PR.OGRAM FOR AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGENTS AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRONOMY IN TUNISIA

( 1975) ABDALLAH GAAYA

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Key factors in the use of Agricultural Extension Services by women farmers in Babati District, Tanzania:

( 2018) Caitlin McCormack

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LEVEL OF ACCESS TO AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND ADVISORY SERVICES BY EMERGING LIVESTOCK FARMERS IN UTHUNGULU DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, KWA ZULU NATAL PROVINCE

( 2017) NORAH ZANELE NKOSI

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MEASURING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES

( 2014) Qiong Yang

With rapid technological advances in the second half of last century, the increasing dependence on science-based agriculture has placed greater importance on the fast and efficient transfer of the advanced knowledge to farmers. For most of countries, without an efficient agricultural sector, a country is severely constrained in its ability to feed itself and in consuming other goods and its development. Agricultural extension is one of the most common forms of public support to en hance the agricultural productivity. With costs rising, limited resources available, de creasing proportion of agricultural sector in the economy and changes in the prevailing philosophy of the appropriate extent of government intervention, it becomes more im perative to improve the performance of agricultural extension. Our research focuses on quantifying these changes brought up by agricultural exten sion. Existing literature on this quantification work on agricultural extension is scarce and inconclusive. Measuring the technical efficiency in a variety of fields has achieved rapid progress via the newly adopted econometric toolboxes; however, the correspond ing work in agricultural extension failed to keep in pace. One particular aspect that has been overlooked in agricultural extension literature is the possibility of sample selectiv ity. Given the public goods nature of agricultural extension, one should distinguish be tween the two production processes that are involved. In the first stage, an intermediate output is produced using only discretionary inputs (i.e.,variable and controllable by the decision making unit). In the second stage, final outcomes are determined by the level of the intermediate output and by environmental (i.e.,fixed) variables.

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National Agricultural Extension Systems