PERCEIVED BENEFITS DERIVED FROM EXTENSION AGENTS TRAINING PROGRAMME BY FARMERS PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA
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This study investigated the perceived benefits derived from extension agents' training programme by farmers participation in community based organizations in Delta State, Nigeria. It described the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers trained through participating in CBO Delta State, examined level of satisfaction derived by the Community Based Organizations farmers from the extension agents training programmes in the area and ascertain the perceived benefits derived by the CBO farmers from participating in extension agents training programmes. Through multi-stage sampling technique, a sample size of 111 was got and used for the study. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics was respectively used to analyze the objectives and hypotheses of the study. Results revealed that respondents mean age, household size, farm size, farm experience and farm income was 45.27 years, 6 persons, 2.75 ha. 10.26 years and N328,378.38 respectively. Majority (82.88%) of the respondents were satisfied with the extension agents training programme and this was attributed to the numerous benefits obtained from the training programme and this was in spite of the different challenges plaguing CBO farmers participation in the training programmes. Results also revealed that respondents socio-economic characteristics like sex, age, educational level, farm size, farm experience and farm income were significantly related to CBO farmers level of satisfaction derived from participation in extension agents training programmes. Based on the results the study suggests that government should try to employ more extension agents into the Agricultural Institutions and Ministries so that the number of extension agents to farmers’ ratio can be reduced and that there is also the need for the extension agents to be provided with training equipment and materials to be used for demonstration during training programmes.
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