Training Needs Of Rice Farmers In Mahanawiyah District, AL-Qadisiya  Province, Iraq

Kshash, Bassim Haleem

doi:10.24925/turjaf.v4i12.1072-1076.714

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“…The KVKs have to re-orient their trainings based on these findings to reduce the existing technological and adoption gap among the farmers in Manipur. Kshash (2016) assessed the training needs of rice farmers in Mahanawiyah District, AL-Qadisiya Province, Iraq. Findings revealed that majority of the farmers had medium level of training needs.…”

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Improving farm practices and productivity through training needs assessment of sugarcane farmers: the case of Davao Mill District, the Philippines

Padilla-Fernandez¹,

Gonzales²,

Mamauag³

2020

Int. J. Agr. Ext.

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The need to improve the farm practices and productivity in the Davao mill district was examined through Training Need Assessment. The aim is to develop a well-designed and need-based training program for its sugarcane farmers. A two-stage stratified random sampling technique was employed to select 112 respondents. A well-structured questionnaire was used and data were analyzed using Likert Scale and multiple regression analysis. The areas of training needs identified for sugarcane production were on the application/computation of chemical fertilizer, soil fertility management, selection of varieties, seizing fertilization and irrigation before harvesting, managing disease control and designing a weed control program. The information on the processing of sugar, the current situation of the sugarcane industry in the domestic and world markets, and farm plan and budgeting were also identified. For other crop production, the training needs were on swine, corn production and poultry raising. Farmers also need training on product quality and packaging and marketing for muscovado, vinegar and wine making for their source of livelihood. The relational analysis showed a positive and significant relationship between age and access to high yielding varieties with training needs expressed by the farmers on sugarcane production. Training could be more effective by targeting older farmers as they seemed to be more receptive to technology although young farmers also need to be trained due to succession in sugarcane farming. The study recommends to assess the interventions given to the Davao MDDC particularly the nursery farms under the Rapid Propagation and Distribution Program of SRA especially on the accessibility of HYV seeds. It also recommends for SRA and the Davao MDDC to increase extension contact and develop training modules and re-orient training schedules with training needs expressed by the farmers to improve the farm practices and productivity in the study area.

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Section: Empirical Literature Reviewmentioning

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Improving farm practices and productivity through training needs assessment of sugarcane farmers: the case of Davao Mill District, the Philippines

Padilla-Fernandez¹,

Gonzales²,

Mamauag³

2020

Int. J. Agr. Ext.

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Water Footprint of Rice in Iraq

Ewaid

Abed

Chabuk

et al. 2021

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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There is a shortage of water and increasing demand for food in Iraq and other areas of the world will be difficult to meet in the future. Because agriculture is the primary consumer of water, without savings in consumption and precise knowledge of the actual need for water to irrigate important crops, food security cannot be guaranteed. Water footprint (WF) is an inclusive measure for freshwater use that can be used to evaluate the impact on both water volume and distribution of human water consumption. In this study, following the WF approach, the CROPWAT software with the crop water requirement option, the WF of paddy rice cultivation in 7 Iraqi provinces during the year 2017 were estimated. The results showed that the Iraqi paddy rice WF is 3072 m3/ton, which is higher than the global average (1325 m3/ton), the highest water of WF belongs to Muthanna Province with 6688.5 m3/ton and the lowest belongs to Al-Qadysia Province with 2405.5 m3/ton. About 816,704,748 m3/yr of water were used to irrigate paddy rice-growing areas throughout the country to produce 265,852 tons, the blue WF is dominant and green WF is almost non-existent because rice in Iraq grows during the hot and dry summer. Some provinces like Muthanna and Misan produce little and have a high WF so, rice can be replaced with crops like vegetables that provide more economic benefit and need less water, and the production should be concentrated in low WF provinces such as Qadisiya and Najaf.

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Training Needs Of Rice Farmers In Mahanawiyah District, AL-Qadisiya Province, Iraq

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Improving farm practices and productivity through training needs assessment of sugarcane farmers: the case of Davao Mill District, the Philippines

Improving farm practices and productivity through training needs assessment of sugarcane farmers: the case of Davao Mill District, the Philippines

Water Footprint of Rice in Iraq

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