agricultural extension
collocation in Englishmeaningsofagriculturalandextension
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agricultural
adjective
uk/ˌæɡ.rɪˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us/ˌæɡ.rəˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
used for farming or relating ...
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extension
noun
uk/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/us/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/
the fact of reaching, stretching, or continuing; the act of adding to something in order to make it bigger ...
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(Definition ofagriculturalandextensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Mapping the road for voluntary change: partnerships inagriculturalextension.
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Social principles foragriculturalextensionto assist in the promotion of natural resource management.
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First, rice-growing villages were located with the help of theagriculturalextensionofficials.
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Yet, simply inserting ecologically based practices into conventionalagriculturalextensionsystems has a very poor record of adoption2,3.
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Local crops researchers,agriculturalextensionworkers and farmers had to commit to the project and be actively involved throughout.
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Farmers received substantial assistance from the colonial state, including land settlement schemes, tariff preferences, research andagriculturalextension.
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There is a considerable reorganisation of theagriculturalextensionwork.
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These points should be borne in mind when trying to understand why top-down approaches toagriculturalextensionand natural resource management have been so prevalent.
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In most developing countries,agriculturalextensiontends to be a major source of information on technological improvements in the agricultural sector.
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Like most of the college-educated of his generation, he went on immediately to work for the state, in his case as anagriculturalextensionagent.
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The central political leader channels funds for social services andagriculturalextensionprogrammes to regions, so that they can use them to garner support from the local population.
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Agriculturalextensionagents repeatedly encouraged village leaders to reconcile and reunite into one larger and more effective group, but all attempts to date have been unsuccessful.
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Perhaps the most important of all forms of development isagriculturalextension.
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Sinceagriculturalextensionand training activities facilitate farmers' adoption of organic agriculture, information and technical support should be regularly provided by public agencies and private companies promoting organic production.
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The unity of these objectives in policy discourse quickly dissolved, however, when local administrators andagriculturalextensionofficers were faced with the task of implementing the means to attain them.
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During the visit she suggested that exchange visits byagriculturalextensionofficers could be of mutual benefit.
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This project is intended to re-orientateagriculturalextensionservices to better meet the expressed needs of farmers.
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These measures could include specific support for, inter alia, crop rotation systems,agriculturalextensionservices, and research and development.
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Our capital aid is being spent on projects in the infrastructure—including electricity and communications —and inagriculturalextensionand development.
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They want to "buy"—the word used in the document—theagriculturalextensionworkers and others who have supported multi-party democracy.
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It is recognised that inagriculturalextensionit is important for the beneficiaries actively to participate in the implementation and planning of projects.
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These may includeagriculturalextension, rural roads, water supply, credit and marketing systems and basic education and health systems—in other words, integrated rural development.
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Compared to 20 years ago,agriculturalextensionnow receives considerably less support from donor agencies.
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Agriculturalextensionagencies promote more profitable and sustainable farming, while health extension agencies promote improved health.
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