Agriculture Extension Officers’ Attitude and Readiness in Using Information and Communication Technology in Indonesia

Purnomo, Sutrisno Hadi; Sarı, Ayşe; Emawati, Shanti; Rahayu, Endang Siti; Triaswati, R.P.

doi:10.18551/rjoas.2020-04.01

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…All the program development skills (particularly monitoring and evaluation) influence the readiness of the extension agent to face challenges during the pandemic. According to Purnomo et al (2020), readiness was a condition for someone to be mentally and physically prepared to achieve the target in a certain situation. This study shows that most of the extension agents had the least readiness for planning and implementing skills probably during the early stage of the pandemic outbreak.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors of Development Skills Contribute to the Readiness of Extension Agents during the Pandemic Outbreak in Malaysia

Khairisham¹,

Haris²,

Shah³

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

was found in Wuhan, China in October 2019 where the disease was expected from wildlife and started to spread in other regions including Malaysia. The first case Covid-19 in Malaysia was found in February 2020 when it was detected by tourists who came back from China. On 18 th March 2020, Malaysia's government announced the Movement Control Order (MCO), in which all of the sectors were interrupted including the agriculture sector. Thus, extension agents need to come out with a solution to help farmers and entrepreneurs during this hard time, to transfer the information, and increase their confidence and knowledge in agriculture during this pandemic. Therefore, this research is aiming to determine the relationship between Program Development Skills; Planning, Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluation towards their readiness to face the pandemic of Covid-19. From the results, monitoring and evaluating skills significantly contributed towards the readiness of extension agents. These two skills explained about 68.7% of the variance in the readiness of the extension agent to face challenges. Therefore, from this study most of the extension agents were ready to prepare or altered their program development skills based on the pandemic outbreak situation. The research would be important as an indicator of the readiness of extension agents and whether they are well prepared for the adjustment during the postpandemic.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%