American Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Special Issue

Agricultural Extension and Agricultural Advice

  • Submission Deadline: Apr. 10, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Talal Hameed
About This Special Issue
Agricultural Extension services are playing an important role in the livelihood activities of rural communities. Also Agricultural extension services had a pivotal role in ensuring that the clientele (farmers) have access to improve the technologies, such as improve the level of qualifications of farmers and rural inhabitants, assistance in the creation of production groups. Delivering information on new technologies and innovations to agricultural manufacturers without their assessment. Agricultural extension services and programs aims to strengthen the farmer’s capacity to innovate by providing access to knowledge and information. In Poland there are two kinds of the Agricultural Extension services: the first is a public advisory services this kind of service is playing dominating role in Poland, it is available for all farmers and is realized by Regional Agricultural Advisory Centers. And the second is private advisory services which mainly help farmers to formulate plans and obtain resources for farm development from public and commercial institutions. Also interested in advising rural communities in the process of preparation of development plans financed from regional policy funds. The private advisory services cooperate with the public advisory services, generally to improving the quality of services to farmers such as helping the farmers by advising them to fulfill their respective roles.

Aims and Scope:

  1. Adoption of technology
  2. Transfer of agricultural technology
  3. The extension communication
  4. The agricultural knowledge
  5. Educational psychology
  6. Idult education
  7. Extension training
Lead Guest Editor
  • Talal Hameed

    Department of Agricultural extension and transfer of technology /college of Agriculture and forestry/ university of Mosul. Iraq, Mosul, Iraq

Guest Editors
  • Nutan Prasad Rout

    Plant Biotechnology, Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco, A.C, Mexico

  • Wang Fang

    Department of Biological Engineering,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology,North University of China, Taiyuan, China

  • Snovia Naseem

    College of Economics and Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

  • Aleksandr Malygin

    Agriculture Center, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

  • Aamel Al-Abbassi

    Agricultural Extension and Transfer Technology/ College of Agriculture & Forestry, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq

Published Articles
  • Evaluation of Different Blended Fertilizers Types and Rates for Better Production of Wheat in Lemu Woreda

    Yehuala Alemneh , Zerihun Achiso , Tsadiku Bamud

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, July 2020
    Pages: 108-111
    Received: Feb. 29, 2020
    Accepted: Apr. 23, 2020
    Published: Jun. 28, 2020
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajaf.20200804.13
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    Abstract: Ethiopia is likely to rely on the agricultural sector as a source of income and employment for the foreseeable future requiring optimal and up to date fertilizer recommendation packages for all crops given the fact that increasing small holder farmers’ productivity. The field experiment was conducted during 2017/18 cropping season at Hadiya zone le... Show More