AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CONTENT OF THE EXTENSION BULLETINS ISSUED BY THE GENERAL FACULTY OF EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL AND COOPERATION FOR PERIOD 2004 – 2009

Aljarjari, D.N.; Al-Sha, Y.S.

	AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CONTENT OF THE EXTENSION BULLETINS ISSUED BY THE GENERAL FACULTY OF EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL AND COOPERATION FOR PERIOD 2004 – 2009
IRAQ JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE
Article 1, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 0-0
Authors
D.N. Aljarjari; Y.S. Al-Sha
Abstract
The study aims at analyzing the content of the extension bulletins issued by the general authority of extension and agricultural cooperation. The study include (34) extension bulletins issued in the years 2004–2009, several statistical tools were used such as: the percentage, repetitions, mathematical mean and the standard deviation to represent the study data. The study revealed that the subjects of the bulletins included certain fields like winter crops which represented a maximum of (34.4%) and irrigation technologies (8.81% as minimum), and it was clear that most of the persons who prepared these extension bulletins ranged between a maximum 11% in an attempt to increase the winter crops production and 1% minimum to increase the farmers' awareness including tractors and agricultural machines maintenance. Most of the agricultural bulletins were of suitable pages number and the title was written in one line or in tow different fonts. The head titles and the sub titles were written in sizes of fonts (48 and 21) respectively. The area of the cover photo was 32% and less. The study recommends that more bulletins should be published in the fields of the optimum use of irrigation water, improving the level of the environmental awareness, techniques of agricultural pesticide and herbicide and writing a comment in the bottom of the page with demonstration drawings. Also there should be a table of contents and extension bulletins.

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