extension agent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextensionandagent
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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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agent
noun[C]
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofextensionandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofextension agent
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Each intervention of the farmers was recorded by the village residentextensionagent.
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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 an agriculturalextensionagent.
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The aim is to have one demonstrator orextensionagentper 600 households.
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Since a new courthouse opened across the street, the old courthouse houses magistrate's offices and the countyextensionagent.
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She worked as a homeextensionagentand as a home economics teacher.
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Second, they enhance the accountability of extension agents to farmers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Extension agents also work among a restricted number of crops.
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This requires a fresh approach for growers accustomed to passively receiving expert knowledge from others, and for extension agents accustomed to the role of expert.
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Little personnel turnover had occurred, so it was possible to reconstruct how extension agents had allocated their time in considerable detail (table 1).
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Eective transfer of technology to farmers is rarely possible without the convinced, whole-hearted involvement of extension agents and also, frequently, an appropriate enabling policy environment.
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The effects of intercropping with beans and visits by extension agents on yields and net returns were also more significant for non-adopters than for adopters.
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The community-level information was gathered from the extension agents working within the communities and from discussions with key informants in each community.
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We want an integrative extension system, with multipurpose extension agents.
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Experienced extension agents and cocoa-buying clerks accompanying the lead researcher also made separate identifications, to ensure accuracy.
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It was also mentioned that land grant extension agents need to be retrained so that they can provide better service to organic farmers.
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Farmers with access to more information, through either demonstrations or extension agents, have been shown to be more likely to adopt improved varieties.
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Extension agents visited the farmers regularly for monitoring, and before and during harvest time the farmers were instructed how to record yield data.
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This result has important policy implications for extension agents working with potential grazers.
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