Effectiveness of Extension Services Among Food Crop Farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Oluwasusi, J. O.; Akanni, Y. O.

doi:10.1080/10496505.2014.952175

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“…The women were divided into two groups based on the mean value: favourable and unfavourable. Respondents with less than the mean value were grouped as unfavourable and respondents with equal or higher scores than the mean value were classified as favourable attitudes (Oluwasus, and Akann , 2014). The results show that nearly three-fourths (70.85%) of the respondents possessed a favourable attitude towards the postharvest processing of vegetables.…”

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“…Women's attitudes were measured using 11 statements regarding post-harvest processing of vegetables. Respondents were requested to state agreement or disagreement with statements on a 5-point scale: strongly agree, agree, no opinion, disagree and strongly disagree, where '1' was assigned of 'strongly disagree,' and '5' was assigned for 'strongly agree' (Kabir et al, 2018;Oluwasus and Akann, 2014). Respondent involvement in post-harvest processing of vegetables was measured using a binary scale (yes/no).…”

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Rural Women's Attitude and Involvement in Post-Harvest Processing of Vegetables

2022

THE JAPS

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Traditionally women are mostly engaged in household-based income generating activities. Post-harvest processing of vegetables has recently gained much attention due to its value addition utilities. Therefore, in this study, we tried to understand women farmers' attitudes towards and involvement in, post-harvest processing of vegetables. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a pre-tested questionnaire from 212 respondents in Dhaka district of Bangladesh. The data were interpreted with descriptive statistics, multivariate regression analysis and a logit model. About 71% of rural women had a favorable attitude towards post-harvest processing; 43% of them were involved in the post-harvest processing of vegetables. Women's attitude towards post-harvest processing of vegetables was influenced by age, education, household size, and their frequency to travel outside of their social system. Their involvement in postharvest processing of vegetables was affected by education, group membership, media contact and time spent in home management. 'Gender disparity in earnings' was the most severe barrier to expanding women's involvement in vegetable processing, followed by 'lack of land ownership status', 'spouse dominance' and 'social norms and tradition'. Motivating women in income-generating activities and introducing advanced yet low-cost and less-labour intensive technologies would enable them to participate in the post-harvest processing of vegetables.

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2022

THE JAPS

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“…There is a lack of study specifically focused to assess the effectiveness of GOs and NGOs in Bangladesh regarding the capacity building of the farmers. Some studies focus on assessing farmers' satisfaction towards extension services provided by government organizations, especially the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) (Rahman, 2007;Oluwasus and Akann, 2014;Mishuk et al, 2021;Moonmoon, 2022). Some more studies also happen to see the status of non-government organizations' efforts besides GOs for agricultural development (Rashid and Qijie, 2016;Talib et al, 2018).…”

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Effectiveness of Public and Private Extension Services in Building Capacity of the Farmers: A Case of Bangladesh

Kabir¹,

Islam²

2023

SJA

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“…The final selected extension services were measured with four points likert scale. A score of 0, 1, 2 and 3 for the responses for not effective, less effective, moderate and high effective of DAE extension services respectively [8].…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Services to Increase Farmers’ Skill

Mishuk

Kabir

Alam

2021

AJAEES

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The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is considered as the most prominent public organization in Bangladesh for disseminating agricultural information to the farmers. In this line, the objectives of this study were to determine the extent of effectiveness of DAE regarding their services for improving farming skill and to determine the factors affecting the effectiveness of DAE services. Data were collected from two villages of Nawabganj Upazila (sub-district) in Dinajpur district using structured interview schedule. Descriptive statistics and linear regression analysis were done to explain the data. The findings revealed that majority (70.2 %) of the farmers think that the DAE services are moderately effective for improving farmer’s skill. Among the rest of the respondents, 7.7% and 22.1 % were commented as less and high effective category respectively. The inferential analysis revealed that farmers' education, organizational participation, cosmopoliteness and time spent in farming had positive and significant contribution with effectiveness of DAE services. This means that the initiative for higher these factors would increase the effectiveness of DAE services. The extension personnel, development practitioners and other researchers may be benefited from the findings. The policy makers should also consider these important factors to increase the effectiveness of DAE regarding agricultural advisory services.

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Effectiveness of Extension Services Among Food Crop Farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Rural Women's Attitude and Involvement in Post-Harvest Processing of Vegetables

Rural Women's Attitude and Involvement in Post-Harvest Processing of Vegetables

Effectiveness of Public and Private Extension Services in Building Capacity of the Farmers: A Case of Bangladesh

Assessing the Effectiveness of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Services to Increase Farmers’ Skill

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