Direct and interactional effects of three extension organisations on crop production and farmers' education in northern Tanzania
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Date
1981
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The University of the West Indies
Abstract
The importance of having an efficient Agriculture Extension
Service m predominantly Agricultural countries like Tanzania need no
over
emphasis.
In this study cotton extension service and coffee extension
service were studied in comparison with the general extension service
The study
in Same and Mwanga Districts in Kilimanjaro Region.
included 1977/78 and 1979/80 cropping seasons because individual
villages began keeping separate data in 1977/78 season.
The time of
actual field work was between June and November 1980.
Total yields and quality in all villages were recorded
for the period under study.
However, the knowledge of the improved
practices by the farmers was obtained by random sampling from the total
villages and from each randomly picked village, 20 farmers were randomly
selected.
Descriptive statistics were used in analysing yield and quality
changes over the study period in each extension system.
Descriptive
statistics were used to analyse the distribution of respondents in
various knowledge categories; and chi-square test was used to find out
association of farmers’ knowledge with various farmers’ characteristics
Cotton and coffee respondents were dealt with separately.
The findings suggest that resident general extension agents
perform better than their commodity counterparts.
It was also noted
that placing the two extension agents in the same village does not
necessarily increase performance than where resident general extension
worker alone exists.
It was found out that knowledge of improved
practices did not differ significantly among the extension systems.
It was concluded that increasing the number of resident general
extension agents could have improved production more than the commodity
approach.
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Dissertation
Keywords
Agriculture extension service, Cotton extension service, Coffee extension service