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International Research Journal of Finance and Economics – Volume 2, Number I (2006)
Table 4: The Constraints to the Effective Performance of Extension Agents and Their Service.
Categories of Constraints
Respondents N Fringe In-Service Fortnightly Transportation
Benefit Training Training
Extension
Administrator
% % % %
Extension
35 29.92 14.23 -
18.04
Agents
Contact
40 25.92 17.85 14.28 20.30
Farmers
Non-Contact
60 22.22 32.14 28.571 32.33
Farmers
60 25.92 35.71 57.14 29.32
13.84 14.85 3.58 68.20
(195)a (27) (28) (7) (133)
Figures in brackets are the actual numbers of the respondents.
The findings in Table 4 show that 68.28% of the respondents agreed that inadequate transportation is a
constraint facing the effective performance of extension agents and their services as against 32% who
did not agree. Those of them that did not agree are of the opinion that fringe benefits, in-service
training and fortnightly meeting are minor constraints.
Conclusion
The purpose of this study was to assess the regularity of contact between agricultural extension agents
and farmers and the constraints facing agricultural extension agents in Delta State, Nigeria.
The perceptions of the farmers and extension officers within the state with reard to educational
prorammes, human relations, information and extension methods of the extension services were also
investigated.
The study also look into the frequency of contact between the farmers and extension agents in
Delta State ADP, whether or not training and Visit (T & V) system has made any impact on
agricultural development in Development in Delta State.
Most of the respondents are of middle age and are also male in majority. Majority of them had
one form of formal education or the other. Most of them are married.
The overall evaluation did not show any significant difference among the extension
administrators; extension agents, contact and non-contact farmers in their ratings of agricultural
extension educational programmes, extension officers’ human relations, agricultural information; and
extension methods. This indicated that agricultural extension services were effective.
The contact farmers were mainly visited by the extension officers than the non-contact farmers.
This is an indication that the extension services do not reach all farmers. This called for equal
extension services through equal contact with all farmers which will eventually enhance agricultural
development in the state.
Transportation problem was a significant constraint to the effective performance of the
extension officers and their services. Others were inadequate in-service training and inadequate fringe
benefits. These bottle-necks implied that majority of the farmers were not reached.
The Training and Visit (T & V) system has made some impact on agricultural development,
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