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The Role Of Agricultural Extension Workers In Educating Farmers In Plantain Production
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The study examined the role of extension workers in educating farmers and constraints farmers face in plantain production in some selected areas in Edo State, Nigeria. A total of 120 Plantain farmers were randomly selected from the study area. Farmers were interviewed using well structured questionnaire. Simple descriptive statistics and multiple regression were used to analysis the data collected. The likert scale techniques was used to identify the constraints faced by the farmers, the result revealed that 68.3 percent of the farmers were male while 31.7 percent were female, then 33.2 percent of the farmers with above 61 years of age, also 85.8 percent of the farmers have farm size ranging from 5 to 10 hectare. 52.5 percent of the farmers had annual income ranging from 200,000 to 399,000. While 60.8 percent of the farmers has no form of formal education. 100 percent of the farmers had no contact with extension workers which imply that extension services in the study areas were either low or non-existing. The major constraints the farmers faced were transportation, labour, storage processing, finance, lack of government incentives, low price index, poor knowledge of technology. Based on the study carried out it is recommended that extension services be intensified in the study area, provision of credit facilities to farmers, betterment of framers socio economic status, employment of modern equipment in production e.t.c
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]In Edo State some agricultural extension activities include the following:getting
the farmers into a frame of mind and attitude conducive to acceptance
or adoption of technological change. This function is achieved by
educating the farmers on newly developed technology and to convince them
of the visibility of the new technologies in agriculture.disseminating
to the plantain farmers the result of research and to carry the
farmer’s problem back to the research system for soluti ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]In Edo State some agricultural extension activities include the following:getting
the farmers into a frame of mind and attitude conducive to acceptance
or adoption of technological change. This function is achieved by
educating the farmers on newly developed technology and to convince them
of the visibility of the new technologies in agriculture.disseminating
to the plantain farmers the result of research and to carry the
farmer’s problem back to the research system for soluti ... Continue reading---
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