Perceptions of Maize Farmer’s towards Agricultural Extension Agents’
Ismail Abdullahi Mohamed *
Faculty of Agriculture, Zamzam University of Science and Technology, Somalia.
Md Saiful Huda
Department of Agricultural Extension at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technolgy, Bangladesh.
Md. Abu Sayed Mondol
Department of Agricultural Extension at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technolgy, Bangladesh.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine perception of the maize farmers towards agricultural extension agents. Result indicate that the majority 90.0% of the respondents had high favorable perception towards extension agents by providing agricultural information, while 8.9% of them had medium favourable perception and only 1.1 % of them had low favourable perception towards agricultural extension agents. Majority of the respondents they don't feel a problem about getting in accessing modern agricultural information. Five Out of ten selected characteristics of respondents such as family size, annual family income, training received, aspiration, and extension. media contact, had significant positive relationship with their perception in this regard. The other selected characteristics of the farmers. Namely, age, education qualification, farm size, maize farming experience, agricultural. knowledge, did not show any significant relationship with the farmer's perception. Different question item and scales interviews were developed to measure perception and other key issues for the study. The Focus Issue was measured by using a five-point Likert scale.
Keywords: Extension agents, maize farmers, perception, modern information