The effect of technical, financial and communication determinants on the efficiency and effectiveness of the performance of workers in agricultural extension centers in Sohag Governorate

Document Type : Research and Review Papers

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1 Agricultural Extension Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag Egypt 82524

2 Agricultural Extension Department Faculty of Agriculture Beni Suef University Beni Suef Egypt 62521

3 جامعة سوهاج کلية الزراعة قسم الارشاد الزراعى والمجتمع الريفى

Abstract

This research mainly aimed to identify the impact of technical, financial and
communication determinants on the efficiency and effectiveness of the performance of
workers in the extension centers in Sohag governorate by achieving the following subobjectives:
determining the degree of respondents’ knowledge of the objectives of the
agricultural extension centers, determining the degree of respondents’ knowledge of the
importance of the agricultural extension centers, and identifying the degree of impact
The technical, financial and communication determinants on the efficiency and
effectiveness of the performance of the workers in the extension centers for the
extension tasks, and the identification of the correlation between the degree of influence
of the studied determinants on the efficiency and effectiveness of the performance of the
workers in the extension centers for the extension tasks, and between the studied
independent variables. The research was conducted on a comprehensive of 38
respondents, who are the total number of agricultural extension agents and extension
materials specialists working in the extension centers in Sohag Governorate. The
arithmetic mean, Pearson's simple correlation coefficient and chi-square were used,
using the SPSS statistical software package. The most important results obtained are as
follows: (i) The results showed that half of the respondents (50%) have high knowledge
of the goals of the counseling centers, that (34.21%) have medium knowledge and that
(13.15%) of the respondents have low knowledge, and that (2.63%) of the respondents
have no knowledge goals of counseling centres. (ii) It was found that the percentage of
those with a high level of knowledge about the importance of the counseling centers
reached (60.53%), and that the percentage of (26.31%) was for those with a medium
level of knowledge, while the percentage of those with a low level of knowledge about
the importance of the counseling centers reached (13.16%). (iii) The efficiency and
effectiveness of the performance of the workers in the extension centers for the
extension tasks is affected by a number of determinants, as each of the technical
determinants had a high impact of (84.21%), and each of the financial determinants and
the communication determinants had a high impact on the efficiency and effectiveness
of the performance of the workers in the extension centers for the extension missions,
which amounted to a rate of (97.36%).

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