Socio-economic determinants of the awareness and adoption of citrus production practices in Pakistan

Ashraf, Saleem; Khan, Ghazanfar Ali; Ali, Shoukat; Iftikhar, Muhammad

doi:10.1590/0103-8478cr20131227

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“…Nine independent variables namely sex, age, education, household size, type of agriculture, farm size, experience in mandarin farming, contact with extension agents, and participation in GAP related training were used for regression analysis using the logit model, of which two variables namely contact with extension agents, and participation in GAP related training were statistically significant. This result was similar to Ashraf et al (2015) findings, however, contradict the findings of Anarvat (2015) indicating a positive and significant relationship between mandarin growing area and level of awareness, and contradict with (Meena et al, 2017) which showed that age and mandarin are statistically significant with awareness-adoption. At the 1% level of significance, the model's Chi-square value (χ 2 ) of 74.76 and the log-likelihood ratio of -29.49 indicate that all variables in the model significantly influence the probability of GAP adoption.…”

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Good agricultural practices in mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco); Perception and factors affecting awareness among farmers in Gulmi, Nepal

Sedhai

Panth

Dulal

et al. 2022

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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Citrus, in general, and mandarin, in particular, has long been one of Nepal's most important fruit crops. However, in recent years, a lack of good cultivation procedures and negligence has resulted in a significant reduction in its productivity. The declining situation cannot be controlled without the transfer of science-based knowledge and skills where Good Agricultural Practices have been linked to higher output. A study was carried out in 2020 to assess the perception of farmers towards Good Agricultural Practices and factors affecting awareness of GAP among mandarin growers. Altogether 100 households from Dhurkot and Chhatrakot Rural Municipalities, and Resunga Municipality from Gulmi district, were purposively chosen for the study in the command area of the PMAMP PIU Citrus Zone, and sampling was carried out using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected with the use of a semi-structured questionnaire, entered, and analyzed using SPSS and STATA software. The farmers were categorized into GAP aware and unaware based on the criteria made by the focus group discussion carried out with the leading farmers, mandarin experts, and government agriculture officers. The findings revealed that 39% of the total respondents knew about GAP for mandarin. The entire respondents agreed that GAP-produced fruit has a nicer appearance and better quality and fruits meet national and international standards and enhance exportability of fruits, however, 61.5% of respondents didn’t agree that GAP helps in providing subsidies from governmental organizations. The output of the binary logit model suggested that an increase in participation in training and contact with extension agents has a significant effect on awareness of GAP. Participatory GAP training, regular extension services to smallholding farmers could be beneficial for mandarin farmers leading to commercialization.

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Section: Factors Affecting Awareness Of Gapsupporting

confidence: 62%

Good agricultural practices in mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco); Perception and factors affecting awareness among farmers in Gulmi, Nepal

Sedhai

Panth

Dulal

et al. 2022

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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“…This could be an advantage in respondent's interest and understanding of the importance of institutionalizing evidence-informed practice in Nigeria. Ashraf, Khan, Ali and Iftikham, (2015) noted that as the educational level of people increases, the interest to gather information also increases. Educated persons according to the author are able to take risks in businesses as well as easily adopt innovative techniques and practices.…”

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Institutionalizing an Evidence-Based Practice in a Selected Government Agency in Nigeria

Nwaichi

Chidebe²,

Osuoha

et al. 2020

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The need to tackle the discrepancy between research outputs and the execution of the findings into real practice is a crucial factor in establishing evidence-based practice in a selected government agency. There is a need to increase the number of experts in our education sector who can synthesise, translate, and package the evidence for ready use by decision-makers and to foster entrepreneurship in Africa. To achieve this, the activities of a 28-man Evidence Leaders in Africa (ELA) team were recruited to drive the project through capacity building training and workshop sessions. Thereafter, a non-random purposive sampling technique targeted at policy makers at various government and non-governmental organizations was adopted as the study design. In all, purposive administration of 424 copies of questionnaire to individuals in different governmental and non-governmental organizations was done by the recruited personnel. The retrieved data from the questionnaire were analyzed using standard statistical method. Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents reveal 34% representation of (31-40 years) age bracket, with (57%) of them working in the University spanning over 2 to 5years (47%) work experience. Approximately 64% of the respondents are not aware of EIDM while 71% had no understanding of EIDM. As regards knowledge of EIDM, 36% had no knowledge of EIDM, 29% had moderate knowledge, 34% were beginners while approximately 1% had advanced knowledge of EIDM. Also, approximately 99% of the respondents have neither been trained nor involved in training others in EIDM. It was also observed that 8.5% of the respondents were policy-makers in the organization, yet 90.7% of the respondents agree that EIDM is useful in policy-making while 81.3% of the respondents engage their colleagues in EIDM. From this study, it is safe to infer that institutionalizing EIDM in NNMDA has numerous benefits as shown by the findings of this study. This will only be possible when all parties involved in producing and using research evidence are well informed and knowledgeable in EIDM.

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“…Demographic characteristics of respondents are directly/indirectly related to bring change to the farmers behaviour. These characteristics not only affect the behavior of respondents but also have significant impact on decision making of farmers in order to source information from different sources (Bashir and Albarbarawi, 2011;Ashraf et al, 2015). Identified demographic characteristics are displayed in Figure 2.…”

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Information deficiency among farmers regarding vegetable production practices in peri-urban areas of the Punjab-Pakistan

Hassan

Ashraf

Hassan³

et al. 2021

Int. J. Agr. Ext.

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This study aimed at exploring the information deficiency among vegetables growers regarding production practices of vegetables. Total 208 vegetable growers, who were selected randomly participated in the study as respondents. The data were collected on structured questionnaire through face-to-face interview technique. The analysis of the data indicated that the farmers had diverse demographic conditions, but primarily with ordinary level of education (52.4% were illiterate), small land holdings and over reliance on farming sources to generate income (77.9%). Cultivation of vegetables was observed on small land holdings whereas 87% aimed at not only commercializing the produce abut also meet the domestic needs. In order to meet information needs, important for the vegetable’s cultivation, neighbour farmers were the most preferred information source (59.61%) while agriculture department (10.57%) and agriculture helpline (8.48%) were the least. Farmers had high level of information deficiency regarding Fertilizer application (x̅=4.38), Seed rate (x̅=4.25), Insect’s pests/diseases identification (4.01) and medium level deficiency regarding selection of Varieties (x̅=3.87), Insects pets management (x̅=3.53) and Harvesting (x̅=3.51). This is affirmed that farmers had information deficiency about the major aspects of the production and it could have impacted the production inversely. Farmers had more inclination towards traditional information sources and this could be the reason of information deficiency among farmers. This study urges more proactive role of agricultural extension department to mainstream the information delivery mechanism for the timely access and uniform delivery of required information among vegetable growers.

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Socio-economic determinants of the awareness and adoption of citrus production practices in Pakistan

Cited by 19 publications

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Good agricultural practices in mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco); Perception and factors affecting awareness among farmers in Gulmi, Nepal

Good agricultural practices in mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco); Perception and factors affecting awareness among farmers in Gulmi, Nepal

Institutionalizing an Evidence-Based Practice in a Selected Government Agency in Nigeria

Information deficiency among farmers regarding vegetable production practices in peri-urban areas of the Punjab-Pakistan

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