JUSTIFICATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND ITS INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORKERS IN KIRKUK GOVERNORATE/IRAQ

Authors

Khattab Abdullah Mohammed College of Agriculture, Kirkuk University, Iraq.
Salah Jasim Amin College of Agriculture, Kirkuk University, Iraq.

Keywords:

Electronic agricultural extension, justifications, ingredients for success,, obstacles

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the most important justifications for electronic agricultural extension and its ingredients for success, as well as to identify the obstacles to its application from the point of view of agricultural extension workers in Kirkuk Governorate, and also to identify some of the personal and functional characteristics of the respondents. The research population included all agricultural extension workers which they working in Kirkuk Governorate, in both of the Agricultural Extension Department in the Kirkuk Agriculture Directorate and the Extension Training Center in the governorate, they number (52) workers. The data was collected through a questionnaire consisting of four parts. The first part includes a number of questions to identify some of the personal and functional characteristics of the respondents, while the second part includes questions related to the justifications for electronic agricultural extension, while the third part includes questions about the ingredients for success of electronic agricultural extension, while the questions related to The fourth part includes the most important obstacles to using electronic agricultural extension, then ensuring the validity and reliability of the measures used in the questionnaire using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, after which the data was collected and analyzed using some appropriate statistical methods and using the statistical analysis program (SPSS V.20).

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Published

2023-10-10

How to Cite

Khattab Abdullah Mohammed, & Salah Jasim Amin. (2023). JUSTIFICATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND ITS INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORKERS IN KIRKUK GOVERNORATE/IRAQ. European Journal of Agricultural and Rural Education, 4(10), 22-32. Retrieved from https://scholarzest.com/index.php/ejare/article/view/3959