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We evaluate a large-scale model of agricultural advisory services, known as Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) or Farm Science Centers, introduced by the Government of India to facilitate smallholder adoption of new agricultural technologies.
Influence of agricultural extension services on technical efficiency of maize farmers in Malawi
Recognising potential selection bias due to non-randomness of the data, this study used propensity score matching on data from a nationally representative fifth Integrated Household Survey (IHS5) to investigate the effect of agriculture extension
Information, pesticide safety behaviors, and toxicity risk perceptions evidence from Zambia and Mozambique
Purpose: Pesticide safety is a growing global concern particularly in developing countries as farmers increase their use of toxic pesticides that can negatively affect farmer and environmental health.
Sex-disaggregated agricultural extension and weather variability in Africa south of the Sahara
Understanding the adoption of modern cultivars in India: Adoption probability and use intensity
Using a survey of 1,500 farmers, we identify farmer-level constraints to adoption of modern cultivars in Rajasthan, India, and decompose the overall elasticity into the elasticities of adoption probability and use intensity.
Assessing feasibility and effects of personalized remote advisories based on smartphone pictures: A formative evaluation in India
This paper provides a formative evaluation of picture-based advisories (PBA), using a cluster randomized trial in the states of Punjab and Haryana in northern India.
Evidence suggests that a lack of extension agents impedes the effective delivery of agricultural extension services in Malawi and many other developing nations.
Development and validation of the international extension network advocacy capacity scale
Extension is sometimes viewed globally as less important than academic research and innovation, even though these networks are crucial to agricultural development.
Accelerating technical change through ICTs: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopia
The use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to address a wide array of development issues has gained considerable attention among governments, practitioners, and researchers in recent years (Lwoga and Sangeda 2019).
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and agricultural extension in developing countries
Our study focuses on a narrow class of ICT products and services: technologies related to mobile phones, services, and networks; portable devices; web-based portals, tools, and applications; and the data and information shared through these produc