TASKS OF DIRECT AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SUPERVISION IN SOME EGYPTIAN GOVERNORATES | ||||
Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||||
Article 30, Volume 83, Issue 4, December 2005, Page 1953-1976 PDF (4.57 MB) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2005.255249 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
AHMED I. MOHAMED; HESHAM M. M. SALEH; HUSSEIN A. EL-KATEB | ||||
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The research aims at determining the importance degree of direct agriculture extension supervision tasks, Its Implementation degree from agriculture extension supervisors point of view, for each tasks related to their duties, determine the correlation relationship between the importance degree of such tasks related to the studied duties and its implementation degree. The research was conducted in four governorates: Sohag, El-menia, Kafr El-Sheikh and El-Behira, with a random sample of 165 extension supervisors, representing about 39% of total extension supervisors in studied governorates. Data were collected via mail questionnaire during (January - March) 2004, and the following statistical methods were used: Pearson simple correlation coefficient, frequencies and percentages. The results revealed the following: The general averages of importance degree for supervisory tasks related to each duty were: 2.74, 2.71, 2.69, 2.66, 2.63, and 2.6 for the following duties relatively: motivating agriculture extension agents, work organization, work planning, training of agriculture extension agents, work coordination and finally work evaluation. The relative importance of such tasks was 91.2%, 90.45%, 89.55%, 88.66%, 87.77% and 86.65%. The general averages of importance degree for supervisory tasks related to each duty were 2.58, 2.45, 2.43, 2.41, 2.33, and 2.33 for the following duties relatively: work planning, work coordination, motivating agriculture extension agents, work organization, training agriculture extension agents and work evaluation. The relative importance of such tasks were 85.83%, 81.48%, 81.2%, 80.46%, 77.68%, and 77.45%. | ||||
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