Agricultural Extension Work among Rural Women in Selected Developing Countries

1977 ◽  
pp. 198-203
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Extension Work

scholarly journals Some aspects of agricultural extension work in development countries.

1964 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
A. Perk
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Extension Work

A number of the projects usually accorded a prominent place in the programmes drawn up by the various agricultural extension services for the developing countries are discussed. There is an attempt to discover why some projects are accepted and carried out, while others are deliberately rejected although some of them are given much publicity. It would appear that the rejection of proposed improvements of local agricultural methods depends not only on technical and economic factors, but that motives of a social nature may also play a highly significant role. A. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Inequality in institutional delivery of the recent birth among married women in Nepal: a trend analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Adhikari ◽  
Aakriti Wagle
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Institutional Delivery ◽  
Maternal Mortality Ratio ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Safe Delivery

Abstract Background The huge discrepancy in health statistics between developed and developing countries occur in the area of maternal mortality, with developing countries contributing most of the figures. Nepal has higher maternal mortality ratio than its South Asian neighbors. This study assesses the trend of institutional delivery of recent birth and compared the inequalities with associated factors that affect institutional delivery in Nepal.Methods The data for this study was obtained from three sequential Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys [NDHS] of 2006, 2011, and 2016. The information was collected from mothers having a child within last five years preceding the survey years. The total number of such mothers was 4066, 4148, and 3998 respectively in the survey of 2006, 2011, and 2016.The association between institutional delivery and the explanatory variables was assessed via bivariate analysis (chi-square test) and multivariate analysis (binary logistic regression).Results The utilization of health service during delivery stepped up from 21% in 2006 to 62% in 2016.Although the proportion of delivery in health facility increased among poorest over the period of 10 years, the disparity between richest and poorest still persisted from 2006 to 2016 and the association was highly significant in all the surveys. Although, government of Nepal has launched the maternity incentive scheme through safe delivery incentive program in 2005, poor women are still deprived from utilizing the service. Poorest and poorer women were 78 percent (aOR=0.22, 95% CI 0.17-0.27) and 71 Percent (aOR=0.23, 95%CI 0.23-0.35) respectively less likely to have institutional delivery than the richest women after controlling the other socio-demographic and culture factors. Furthermore, this study found that education, place of residence, women’s autonomy, religion, number of ANC visits, exposure to newspaper and TV were significant predicators for place of delivery. Conclusion Although there has been three-fold increment in utilization of health services during delivery over the period of 10 years, the discrepancy between rich and poor, educated and uneducated and urban and rural area is highly evident. Overall, our study highlights the necessity of interventions to promote institutional delivery with greater focus on poor, uneducated, and rural women.

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BEHAVIOR OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORKERS AND FARMERS’ SATISFACTION WITH THE EXTENSION SERVICES IN KURA LOCAL GOVERNMENT, KANO STATE, NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Ali Giginyu ◽  
Danladi Bala
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
Extension Work ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Satisfaction With Services ◽  
Extension Staff

The study was conducted to determine the attitude of extension staff towards agricultural extension work, examine the nature of the relationship between farmers and agricultural extension staff, examine the scope of farmers’ satisfaction with services provided by extension workers, and determine the challenges affecting effective relationship between farmers and agricultural extension staff in Kura Local Government, Kano State, Nigeria. The population of the study was 2567 registered farmers and 8 qualified Extension workers. Questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. 80 respondents were used as the sampling frame. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics i.e. percentage and frequency count. The research findings revealed that there is strong positive relationship between behavior of Agricultural Extension Workers and farmers satisfaction, the findings of the study indicated, among others, that the challenges affecting relationship between the farmers and the Extension Staff in the study area included staff inadequacy, slow process and the attitude of the Extension Workers toward Agricultural Extension exercise included dedication to duty, positive manners, among the others. Additionally, the findings indicated that the nature of the relationship between the farmers and Agricultural Extension Workers was based on Extension workers farm visit, response to request and enquiries by the farmers and friendliness to the farmers. It is therefore, recommended that the number of Extension workers should be added and welfare package of the Extension Workers should be improved to avoid delay in the process, to mention but a few.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spielman ◽  
Els Lecoutere ◽  
Simrin Makhija ◽  
Bjorn Van Campenhout
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Impact Pathways ◽  
Methodological Rigor ◽  
Multiple Impact

With new possibilities offered by information and communications technology (ICT), an abundance of products, services, and projects has emerged with the promise of revitalizing agricultural extension in developing countries. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that not all ICT-enabled extension approaches are equally effective in improving adoption, productivity, income, or welfare outcomes. In this review, we explore various conceptual and methodological threads in the literature on ICT-enabled extension in developing countries. We examine the role of multiple impact pathways, highlighting how ICTs influence behaviors and preferences, gender and intrahousehold dynamics, spillovers, and public worker incentives. We also explore the opportunities presented by ICT-enabled extension for increasing the methodological rigor with which extension outcomes are identified. These conceptual and methodological insights—coupled with empirical evidence from prior studies—offer direction for several lines of policy-relevant research on ICT-enabled extension. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 13 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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