Farm Opinion Leaders

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Baljeet Singh

This book endeavours to help the readers identify the farm opinion leaders and to understand the characteristics of farm opinion leaders and farm opinion seekers. Beside this motivation, satisfaction and effectiveness of farm opinion leaders and farm opinion seekers are also demystified for a rural set up. The study of influence of family members on the head decision maker of the family is initiated. A theoretical 4 P’s model of farm opinion leadership is proposed and a new method for identification of farm opinion leaders is conceptualised. Agriculture marketing decisions for four agriculture product categories i) agri input consumables (seed, fertilizer and pesticides) the fast moving agriculture goods (FMAGs), ii) agri input capital (farm machineries) the agriculture durables, iii) agri input credit (formal and informal sources) and iv) agri output (price, packaging, transport, storage and market selection) were studied.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-75
Author(s):  
Amina AZZOUZ ◽  
Larbi GHRISSI ◽  
Mira Karima RAHMANI

This study aims to reflect the conception of the social responsibility with all its dimensions towards the stakeholders in the Algerian companies, in order to achieve this, we set up the family business ETMA-Saida where we conducted an interview with the director. The purpose of this interview was to determine the vision of the concept of social responsibility as it is the primary manager and decision-maker in the company, the interview allowed us to know his managerial reasoning and to know whether he is rational or emotional based on intuition.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Henriques de Gusmão ◽  
Cristina Pereira Medeiros

This paper arose from the perceived need to make a contribution towards assessing a strategic information system by using a new method for eliciting the weights of criteria. This is considered one of the most complex and important stages in multicriteria models. Multicriteria models have been proposed to support decisions in the context of information systems given that problems in this field deal with many conflicting criteria. The new procedure for eliciting the weights of the criteria has the advantage of requiring less effort from the decision-maker and, thus, the risk of inconsistent answers is minimized. Therefore, a model based on this new procedure is proposed and applied using data from a glass packaging factory that needs to select a single information system from a set of systems previously identified as relevant. The results obtained are consistent both with the performance of alternatives and with the additive model used to evaluate the alternatives.


1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Susan M. Griffin

In Victoria at the present time a major review is being undertaken into child welfare practice and legislation. The importance of this task is two-fold. Not only do children have to gain from a sensitive and workable final Report, but families too could find that they will be offered the support they need to assist in the difficult task of raising children today. It is hoped that the Review Committee will not concentrate solely on the rights of the child, but will also give due recognition to the rights of the family to a caring and protective environment.The Victorian Government was the first state government to adopt a family policy approach to dealing with the child. This was confirmed by the Norgard Report (1976) and formed the basis of a submission by the Victorian Minister of Social Welfare to the Federal Minister of Social Security (1977) which culminated in the Family Support Services Scheme being set up the following year. This joint federal/state program officially recognised the interaction of children’s rights and needs with those of their parents.


Author(s):  
María Del Milagro Granados-Montero

<p>Preventive confinement against COVID-19 changed the teaching-learning process of the Phytopathology course at the Faculty of Agronomy of the UCR. Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) were integrated into a program called ‘Phytopathology 2020, at the distance but together’. Each student received at her home a box of materials, including culture media and a paper microscope, that allowed her to set up and carry out different phytopathological techniques. The result obtained exceeded expectations and previous results in 16 years of teaching experience. The integration of the family into the educational project was surprising, fostering values of mutual commitment in education and prevention of COVID-19.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Dileshwari Ratre ◽  
S. N. Ojha ◽  
Arpita Sharma ◽  
Ramasubramanian V ◽  
Rajpal Yadav

The ratio of fish farmers to fisheries extension professionals was 1:1000 which is too low. Para-extension functionaries can fill up this gap in the fisheries sector to improve the production and productivity of fishers. The opinion leaders from the local fish farmers community will help identify fish farmers who can further transfer the knowledge concerning how to fish to others through their diffusion network. This study was undertaken to analyze gender roles in fish farming and their relation with opinion leaders. It was observed that 90% of male fish farmers had control of fisheries/family resources, and 97 per cent of fish farmers were found to have contact with male opinion leaders. At the same time, 33% of female fish farmers were contacted by shelf help groups and local progressive farmers. The study shows that the opinion leaders influenced the fish farmers’ diffusion network and their knowledge about how to fish. To involve women in the fisheries sector, empower women, there is also a need to select opinion leaders preferred by women fish farmers.


Quaerendo ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Valkema Blouw

AbstractFrom the chronicles of the Family of Love we know that, besides printers in Deventer and later in Cologne, both Plantin and Augustijn van Hasselt printed for this religious sect. On the basis of this information quite a large number of publications have hitherto been attributed to Plantin, while only one single edition in Latin was reckoned to be the work of Augustijn. An analysis of the typography, however, shows that apart from Hendrik Niclaes's chief work, Den Spegel der Gherechticheyt, Plantin only printed two of his minor writings and that all the other ascriptions to Plantin must be revised in favour of Augustijn van Hasselt. In 1561-2 Augustijn was running a printing shop in the Dutch town of Kampen, specially set up by HN for the purpose of publishing those of his works that had not previously been printed. Plantin, who was partly involved in this enterprise, took the opportunity to have a book printed on this press for his publishing business. The analysis providing the typographical evidence of this collaboration proves for the first time the accuracy of the literary sources as regards Plantin's involvement in the publication of the works of Hendrik Niclaes. In the presentation of the new evidence it was necessary to establish more clearly the date of Plantin's '[1561]' inventory and which roman and German types he owned at what times. The article ends with some notes regarding the end of the 'Bohmbargen' press at Cologne.


1958 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
A. E. M. Geddes

Abstract As observations of microseisms at Aberdeen appeared to indicate that microseisms may arise from a cause or causes other than from standing waves set up by reflection from a steep rocky coast or by a mixture of waves in a fast-moving storm, a survey of Aberdeen records for 1955 has been carried out and a comparison made with the meteorological conditions prevailing at the time. A noticeable feature on the weather charts was the frequent occurrence of pressure distributions with two centres, while the occasions on which fast-moving storms occurred, or reflection from rocky coasts, were rare. Consequently there seemed to be grounds for supposing that the standing waves arose from the interference of two sets of wave systems generated by double low-pressure centres. Further, single low centres off either the Norwegian coast or that of America produced very little effect at Aberdeen. The survey suggests that the principal regions where such microseisms were produced appeared to be in the Atlantic north of 50° N and off the rocky coast of northwest Scotland. From a comparison of the displacements on the E-W and N-S records there is some support for the hypothesis that microseisms are due to a mixture of Rayleigh waves and Love waves.


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