Factors affecting members’ evaluation of agri-business ventures’ effectiveness

Challenges Inhibiting the Transformation of Subsistence Farming into Thriving Agri-business in Rural Uganda

“…Infrastructure plays an important role in the economic development and human well-being. In most developing countries, states have tried to invest in infrastructure, but most rural areas still lack the quantity and quality of the infrastructure needed to assist the modernization and diversification of production (Hashemi & Hedjazi, 2011 The challenges were confirmed as hindrances to rural agri-businesses development in rural areas of Uganda. Thirty percent of the rural micro-business respondents mentioned that operating costs were high thus hindering business growth and survival.…”

Cocoa farmers' perspective on the quality of public and private agricultural extension delivery in Southern Ghana

“…The transition from government-led services to collaboration with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector has been prominent in scholarly literature [ [7] , [8] , [9] ]. The increasing privatization of technology transfer systems, particularly as production technologies become private products, further accelerates this shift [ 10 ].…”

Investigating link between job characteristics and job satisfaction of extension workers

“…Nevertheless in Iran, agricultural extension system has still not been able to reach and support all potential clientele (Amirani, 2001). Also, this system in Iran is suffering from malfunctions in the area of human resource management and development (Karbasioun et al, 2005;Hashemi and Hedjazi, 2011).…”