Farmers and Extension Personnel View of Constraints to Effective Agricultural Extension Services Delivery in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined farmers ' and extension personnel'

Perception of Mealybug Wilt Effect and Management among Pineapple Farmers in Ghana

“…This result is consistent with the finding by Asare-Bediako et al (2015) which states that most pepper farmers in Ghana are in the age range of 30-59 years. This suggests that most of the respondent farmers were within the productive age (Apantaku et al, 2016). Thus pineapple production in these two regions is dominated by youth.…”

“…Nagaraju et al (2002) have reported that formal education as well as and experience in farming can serve as a means through which farmers get informed. Apantaku et al (2016) also argued that farmers' experience in farming count more than formal education in order to increase productivity.…”

National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria

“…However, in Nigeria, there are number of challenges that could hinder the successful implementation of agricultural policies at the state level, most of which are related to the capacity, competency, and performance of state ADP personnel, given their major role in the implementation of agricultural extension policies at the state and farmer levels (Issa 2013;Umeh et al 2015). Additionally, several studies (Ekerete and Ekanem 2015;Apantaku et al 2016;Cynthia and Nwabugwu 2016;Aromolaran et al 2016) have shown that many public extension agents are less information and communication technology (ICT) compliant, and the ICT utilization rate is low. Many agents are less motivated to seek knowledge on or familiarize themselves with trending issues within their core areas of expertise.…”

A Research on the Determination of the Factors Affecting the Implementations of Agricultural Innovations by Beekeepers in Muğla Province, Turkey

“…It is detected that an important part of the farmers (89.6%) finds the information that they get from the extensionist useful. In the research done by Apantaku et al (2016), same results are found and it is detected that 53% of the farmers think that agricultural extension services develop the agricultural activities, 94% of the farmers think that agricultural extension services help farmers be educated about the better agricultural techniques. According to the research done by Muktar et al (2016) in Nigeria, 10% of the farmers find the agricultural extension quite useful in terms of their production, 8.8% of the farmers find it useful and 45% of the farmers find it partially useful.…”