Aspects of Rural Life in Northern Nigeria with Implications for Agricultural Extension Work.

Autor/in	Gill, Dhara Singh
Institution	Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.
Titel	Aspects of Rural Life in Northern Nigeria with Implications for Agricultural Extension Work.
Quelle	(1964), (256 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adoption (Ideas); Agricultural Education; Agriculture; Decision Making; Developing Nations; Diffusion; Doctoral Dissertations; Family Structure; Fertilizers; Field Crops; Innovation; Investigations; Radio; Rural Extension; Womens Education; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideas; Ideenfindung; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Untersuchung; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung
Abstract	Research on rural life in Northern Nigeria was carried out through interviews with a stratified random sample of farmers in a district of Zaria Province. Among the findings were: roadside villages were more susceptible to accepting the use of fertilizer and other innovative agricultural practices than more remote settlements; women hold different agricultural roles in pagan than in non-pagan areas, but in both cases they could best be reached by women extension workers; family structure dictates who are the decision-makers within the family; literate farmers buy educational materials, and many people listen to agricultural radio programs; adopters of new agricultural practices are educated, buy books, listen to radio, and have better contacts with extension workers than non-adopters. The findings suggest several bases for improving the effectiveness of extension education. (author/mf)
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