Abstract
The present work was conducted in poultry production units in Aljafarah area, Libya. The objective of this paper was to illustrate the role that played by the private agricultural extension represented in units of veterinary services consultations, the veterinary pharmacies and advisory services offices in the field of poultry production. The population of this paper represented by total number of actual producers of poultry in the site, total number of units of veterinary services, and advisory guidance of the private sector. A number of 30 extension worker at private sector extension units and 138 from poultry producers were selected as sample size. A closed ended questionnaire was designed to collect the data from the two groups of the study. The collected data were analyzed using frequency distribution, percentage and chi square test. Results showed that more than 50% of the poultry producers have depended only on the private sector agricultural extension units as a main source of information concerning their work; also most of the respondents (98.6%) had a positive assessment for the private sector extension. Most of the private extension (76.6%) offered no training to their staff members. Half of the respondents in private extension were sometimes involved in dissemination of innovations. The results extended to reveal that there was a significant association and dependency in the positive direction between research centers and dissemination of research results by private extension among poultry producers. Also, there was a very high significant association between techniques adopted by the poultry producers and the techniques which had been promoted by the private sector extension. The findings of this paper revealed that the private agricultural extension has played an important role and resulted in a positive impact in the field of poultry production. It helped to disseminate, promote innovation, new techniques and training to producers in addition to their supervision and follow up of poultry producers. This had led producers to increase production and increase their incomes. It is recommended that the ministry of agriculture should improve the activities of the public agricultural extension, facilitate and support the private extension work. Also the private extension units should train their staff and equip them with appropriate knowledge and skills.
Highlights
The idea of extension education as a term emerged in 1873 at the University of Cambridge (UK) and its philosophy was based on the transfer of the results of research to farmers and their rural environments for increasing their income and improving their living standards
The results showed in table 16 above indicated that 10% of the private sector units had provided training services to their clients some times. 23.3% said the provision of training services to their clients of poultry producers was always, and 66.7% of the respondents don’t have any training programmes for their clients, This means that 66.7% of the private sector extension did not provide training to poultry producers, and only one third provided training services sometimes or always to their beneficiaries
The results extend to revealed that only 6.7% of the respondents had provided training services to their staff members, but the majority of the private sector extension units (76.6%) had no any type of training to their staff members, and 16.7% of the private sector extension units provided training services only to build their capabilities for better performance and effective extension work
Summary
The idea of extension education as a term emerged in 1873 at the University of Cambridge (UK) and its philosophy was based on the transfer of the results of research to farmers and their rural environments for increasing their income and improving their living standards. Case Study of Aljafarah and Surrounding Areas, Libya agricultural extension the one of the largest non- formal problem- solving educational system in the World, it is generally concerned with transfer of Knowledge and research results to farmers and it is includes two services to other target groups as farm family, rural youth. Agricultural extension is a general term meaning the application of scientific research, new knowledge and agricultural practices through farmer education. It is not known where or when the first extension activities took place. It is known those Chinese officials were creating agricultural police, documenting practical knowledge and disseminating advice to farmers at 2000 years ago [22]
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