Farmers’ Perception and Willingness to Pay for Technical Agricultural Information on Maize Production in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State.

Subject Areas : Extension of Sustainability

Olumuyiwa Olaniyi ¹ , Oluwatoyin Ismaila ²

1 - Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, P.M. B. 4000, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
2 - Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, P.M. B. 4000, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

Received: 2016-10-13 Accepted : 2016-12-26 Published : 2016-06-01

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