Extension Agents\' Commitment To Extension Work In Abia And Rivers States, Nigeria

Agumagu, AC; Nwaogwugwu, ON

doi:10.4314/gaep.v2i1.34950

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“…Thus making it a duty on the farmers to grow more rice, realize more output and earn higher income. This report supports that of Agumagu and Nwaogwugwu (2006) who found that the dominance of males in agricultural programmes brings about commitment which translates to higher output.…”

Section: *Significant At 1% (Critical T = 236) Influence Of Extensiosupporting

confidence: 89%

“…The dominance of males in the ALIS programme reflects the predominance of male Extension field staff in the State. Similar results have been obtained by Agumagu and Nwaogwugwu (2006), who noted that male Extension agents formed the bulk of the workforce in the agricultural extension service in the Niger Delta states such as Abia and Rivers States. All the Extension workers are married, with the majority (40%) between 30 -39 years old.…”

Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Respondentssupporting

confidence: 86%

“…The implication is that the more working experience they have, the more they are able to impart positively on the farmers ability to understand extension packages which results to higher output of the farmers. Agumagu and Nwaogwugwu (2006) supported this finding when they noted that extension agents with more working experience tend to perform better than new entrants into the job.…”

Section: *Significant At 1% (Critical T = 236) Influence Of Extensiomentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Being married makes the extension agents to be responsible to themselves and to their job thus imparting positively on the farmers' income. Agumagu and Nwaogwugwu (2006) noted that the married people impart more on farmers than the unmarried who most times fell unsecured in their jobs.…”

Section: *Significant At 1% (Critical T = 236) Influence Of Extensiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He noted that agricultural extension is an educational process designed for farmers to enable them adopt improved practices and by so doing raise standard of living through their own efforts and using their own resources. Extension agents are described as the major tool in the implementation of various projects designed by each State Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) in Nigeria to improve agricultural production and income of rural farmers (Agumagu and Nwaogwugwu, 2006). To achieve this above stated goal, the ADPs depend on the services carried out by the Extension agents who are saddled with various extension responsibilities in the rural areas.…”

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Evaluation of Extension Agents Commitment to the Agricultural Loans and Inputs Supply Programme on Special Rice Production in Delta State, Nigeria

Okwuokenye¹,

Okoedo-Okojie²

2014

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management

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ABSTRACT:The study evaluated the activities of Extension agents on Agricultural Loans and Inputs Supply Programme participant farmers' rice output/income. Data were collected with the aid of questionnaire from 60Extension agents (participating in the ALIS programme) randomly selected from 6 LGAs (where the programme is being implemented) of Delta State. Data were also collected from 80 participant and 80 nonparticipant farmers' of the programme. Results of data analysis reveals that all the Extension agents are males and are married. Most (40%) of them belong to the age bracket of 30 -39 years, with a high proportion (48.3%) of them having HND/first degree and a good number of them (28.3%) having 5 -6 years experience in the ALIS programme. Major functions carried out by the Extension agents in the ALIS programme were advisory role (2.75), training farmers on inputs use (2.67) and demonstrating inputs use (2.65). The roles of the Extension agents on the farmers made a significant difference in out (176.25kg) and income N53,468.75 in favour participants. Important inputs provided by the extension agents are farm size, improved seeds and farm chemicals like fertilizer and urea. Some important constraints facing the programme according to the Extension agents were limited coverage of farmers (3.23), wrong selection of programme participants (3.22), late delivery of inputs (3.15) and poor funding of the programme (3.05). Based on findings the study recommends that efforts should be made to deliver inputs promptly to farmers, ensure all necessary inputs are timely made available to farmers and in adequate quantities, there is need to ensure that only those farmers who depend on rice farming are selected to participate in the programme. © JASEM

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Section: *Significant At 1% (Critical T = 236) Influence Of Extensiosupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Respondentssupporting

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Section: *Significant At 1% (Critical T = 236) Influence Of Extensiomentioning

confidence: 82%

Section: *Significant At 1% (Critical T = 236) Influence Of Extensiomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perceived effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change among rice farmers in Jigawa State, Nigeria: Implication for rice production

Orifah¹,

Sani

Murtala

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Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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This study assessed rice farmers’ perceived effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change in Jigawa State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 183 respondents from whom data were collected using questionnaires. Data were summarised using descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and Pearson Correlation. Majority of the respondents were males (98%), married (90%) and had formal education (66.1%) with a mean age of 41 years. On the overall, more than half (56.3%) of the respondents perceived the effectiveness level of adaptation strategies to climate change to be low, whereas 43.7% perceived it to be high. Insufficient farm credit, high cost of raw materials, inadequate capital, high cost of labour, limited access to land and inadequate information on weather were the main constraints to adaptation to climate change. The inferential analysis revealed that years of farming experience (r = 0.172, p = 0.020), membership of cooperative (χ 2 = 4.207, p = 0.047) and level of education (χ 2 = 9.570, p = 0.023) and extension contact (χ 2 = 14.270, p = 0.000) were significantly associated with respondents’ perceived effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change. Efforts should be made to sensitise farmers on the efficacy, appropriateness and applicability of adaptation strategies to foster favourable perception that will trigger positive attitude and subsequent adoption of the strategies where applicable. Government should implement policies that support farmers’ access to credit facilities that is intended to help enhance farmers’ capacity to build resilience. Farmers should be encouraged to take up membership of farm base associations so as to enjoy the benefits therein.

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Extension Agents\' Commitment To Extension Work In Abia And Rivers States, Nigeria

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Evaluation of Extension Agents Commitment to the Agricultural Loans and Inputs Supply Programme on Special Rice Production in Delta State, Nigeria

Evaluation of Extension Agents Commitment to the Agricultural Loans and Inputs Supply Programme on Special Rice Production in Delta State, Nigeria

Effects of digital agriculture solutions on smallscale wage workers and employment

Perceived effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change among rice farmers in Jigawa State, Nigeria: Implication for rice production

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