A STUDY OF FARMERS RESPONSE LIMITATIONS USING AGENTS TO EXTENSION METHODS IN THE GREEN MOUNTAIN AREA OF LIBYA | ||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 36, Volume 23, Issue 2, July 2009, Pages 124-137 PDF (300.37 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2009.197109 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdel-Shafy, A. Azam; Mohamed E. Ferkash | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The main objective of this study was determining the factors which are affecting the response of farmers to agricultural extension methods. The study was aimed-also-to: (a) determine farmers opinion in extension methods, and their confidence in these methods, and (b) determine the relationship between some personal characteristics of respondents and there response to extension methods. A random sample of 140 respondents was chosien from four destercts in the Green Mountain. Percentages, means, varience, and simple correlation coefficient were used to analyses the data. The results showed that: (a) The majority of respondents are less than 56 years old, illetrate, working in farming ,holding not more than 3 hektars, members in social organizations, and have not agricultural projects. (b) The response to extension methods was between 2.14% (personal letters), and 28.57% (extension meetings (c) The majority of respondents meintioned that: *Their confidence in extension methods was at middle degree, and they prefer whom have expertness as information resource. *Extension workers don’t perform any farm or home visits. And there is no benefit to this method *They haven’t attend extension meetings because they don’t know the date and place of meeting *They never saw extension fields, and therefore they haven’t feeling with these fields effect. * They never received any extension publications, in spite of, they expect that they can get information about fertilization, and deseise from extension publications (d) A positive relationship was found between the degree of response to extension methods and respondents age, while a negative relationship was found with the agricultural projects, and the Animal. | ||
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