Problems of Agricultural Extension Agents in ELbehera Governorate | ||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 10, Volume 45, Issue 4, November 2014, Pages 140-158 PDF (347.66 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2014.3510 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The main objectives of this research are: studying problems of agricultural extension agents in ELbehera Governorate, determining the importance of each of these problems, identifying respondents suggestions to resolve these problems and determineg the relationship between the extent of importance of each problem and some studied personal characteristics. The study was conducted on a group of 207 out 220 agricultural extension agents in ELbehera Governorate. A questionnaire was prepared to collect data through personal interview during January _ February 2014 Frequencies, percentages and simple correlation coefficient were used to analysis data by using SPSS. The results showed that the important problems revealed by agricultural extension agents are as follows: low wage and income of agricultural agent; weakness of extension of necessary facilities and administrative work and finally social and psychological problems. The vast majority of the respondents (85%) agreed that studied problems are considered as a great and medium degree of importance. The agents suggested many ways to improve agricultural extension work, these are: increase wages and incentives of agents; design a special cadre for extension agents and publish more extension bulletins and publications. The analyze of data showed significant a relationship at 0.01 between the important problems and some personal characteristics of the respondents. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Problems; agricultural extension agents | ||
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