Vol - 20, Issue - 01
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Journal of the Austrian Society of Agricultural Economics (JASAE)
Journal ID : JASAE-28-01-2024-297
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Abstract : The objective of this study was to gauge insights of the social-ecological resilience of extension agents to compare with organic farmers’ primitive scores. Forty-seven social-ecological components for building resilience in organic rice production were used to interview randomly selected 29 extension agents. They were strategically asked to assign a score to each vital property of resilience and estimate how this property’s relative intensity. The scoring values were calculated using normalization to assign the properties’ relative intensities available on a common scale. Next, one sample t-test at the level of significance of 0.05 was carried out to compare the two parties’ relative intensities. The results revealed that three out of the four vital properties of resilience were not significantly different. The difference was only found in the vital property of ‘Learning to live with change and uncertainty’ due to organic farmers’ unaltered hindrances, such as they were elders and mediocre educated. To solve these, organic farmers must exploit utilities from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as its benefit is enormous for improving decision-making and increasing market competition. This should be together done with allowing organic farmers to design their learning schemes, with the assistance of extension agents to ensure active collaboration and knowledge exchange.

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