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European Journal of Social Sciences - Volume 2, Number 1 (2006)
Extension Information 3.24; and Extension Methods 3.70. This is generally scored good. This implies
that the agricultural extension services aimed at bringing about change in behaviour of the farmers
were effective.
Table 2: Overall Evaluation of the Four Areas (Components) of Extension Services by the Four
Groups of Respondents
Areas (Components of Extension Services
Respondents N Education Human Information Extension
Agricultural
Extension
Programmes Relations
Methods
Administrator
Agricultural
Extension
3.5
3.97 3.67 3.94 3.68
Agents
Contact
40 3.71 4.10 4.15 4.17
Farmers
Non-Contact
60 3.26 3.04 3.49 3.72
Farmers
60 2.03 2.35 3.21 3.25
Total Mean 195 3.24 3.29 3.69 3.70
Hypothesis 2
There are no significant differences in the rating of the contact between farmers and extension agents
in Delta State as viewed by
i) Extension Administrators;
ii) Extension Agents;
iii) Contact Farmers; and
iv) Non-Contact Farmers.
Findings
The analysis (Table 3) below showed significant differences between the different groups of
respondents with respect to contact between farmers and extension agents. A comparative analysis
indicates that the contact farmers had more contact with the extension agents than the non-contact
farmers.
The findings reveals that most of the contact farmers, 34 out of 60 of them or 58% as against 18
out of 60 or 30% of the non-contact farmers accepted that the extension agents met them fortnightly.
Table 3: Contact between Agricultural Extension Agents and Farmers.
Frequency of Contact
Respondents N Very
Often
Sometime Rarely Weekly Monthly Fortnightly Total
Extension
Administrators
Extension
35 - 3 0 0 0 32 32
Agents
Contact
40 - - - 8 4 28 40
Farmers
Non-Contact
60 7 4 11 4 - 34 60
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