Farmers' competence and training needs on pest management practices: Participation in extension workshops

Crop Protection

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 934-939

  Hashemi, Seyyed Mahmoud ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Mahmood ^a   Damalas, Christos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Department of Agricultural Development of Pieria ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Diffusion of knowledge; Extension workshops; Iran; Karaj; Pest management; Training needs

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; PEST CONTROL; SURVEY; TRAINING;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; KARAJ; MIDDLE EAST; TEHRAN [IRAN];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

EID: 70049114170     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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