Year: 2025 | Month: June | Volume 70 | Issue 2
A Study on Personal Profile and Organizational Facilitation
of Agricultural Extension Functionaries for Information
Dissemination in Kashmir Valley
K. Manobharathi
Shijaatt Hussain Bhat
Anjali Tomar
Farhana
DOI:10.46852/0424-2513.2.2025.9
Abstract:
State department of Agriculture in every state is running with objectives of technology transfer, providing training services, updating farmers with new technologies and giving solutions to problem of farmers. The present study regarding the personal profile of the Agricultural Extension Functionaries (AEFs) and assessing the organizational facilitation of AEFs for dissemination of information was carried out in three purposively selected Sub-Divisional Agricultural Offices namely Baramulla, Sopore and Rohama in district
Baramulla of Jammu & Kashmir. Among the Sub-Divisional Extension functionaries, all Subject Matter Specialists (SMS’s), Agricultural Extension Officers (AEO’s), Agricultural Assistants Inputs (AAI’s), Junior Agricultural Extension Officers (JAEO’s) and Agricultural Extension Assistants (AEA’s) were taken for collecting the primary data with the help of a well-structured interview schedule. The study indicated that majority (51.80 %) of the Agricultural Extension Functionaries (AEFs) belonged to the age group of 36 to 43 years, 74.82 per cent of the AEFs were Agricultural Extension Assistants (AEAs), 83.45 per cent of the AEFs were male, 57.55 per cent of the AEFs were Post graduates, 100 per cent of the AEFs were married, 68.35 per cent of the AEFs belonged to joint family type, 51.8 per cent of the AEFs belonged to medium family size (6-10 members), 41.73 per cent of the AEFs belonged to rural family background, 48.92 per cent of the AEFs preferred public transport, 79.86 per cent of the AEFs belonged to job experience category of 2-13 years and 74.82 per cent of the AEFs belonged to income category of ` 35400 - ` 112400. Under overall organizational facilitation, majority (56.84 %) of the Agricultural Extension Functionaries (AEFs) were having medium level of organizational facilitation.
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