Problems facing agricultural extension workers and their suggestions to overcome them in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Economic agricultural Dept. Fac. of Agri. Kafrelsheikh Uni.

2 معهد بحوث الارشاد الزراعى والتنمية الريفية بسخا

3 قسم الاقتصاد الزراعى فرع الارشاد الزراعى

Abstract

This research mainly aimed to identify the problems facing agricultural extension workers and their suggestions to overcome them in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. A regular random sample of 20% of the total extension specialists working in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate was selected, and it consisted of (30) extension specialists, and (118) agricultural extension agents. Several statistical methods were used: frequencies, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and weighted mean, using the statistical program SPSS Version 16 to analyze the research data, and the most important results were: In the extension work department, which is related to the extension work areas, which are related to extension workers, and which are related to the extension workers, these problems have been arranged according to their relative importance from the point of view of the surveyed agricultural extension workers, the problems related to extension work fields came in the first order, followed by those related to extension workers , then related to the management of extension work, then related to the audience of the guides with a weighted average of 2,229, 2,067, 2,056, 1,99 7 respectively.

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