Level of Respondents' Awareness about Extension Activities in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out to assess the extension education needs of crop farmers in Ido local government area of Oyo state. The data were collected using multi-stage techniques to select the sample size of 145 respondents. It assessed the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, their level of awareness in the study area. The data were subjected to descriptive (percentage, frequency and mean) and inferential (chi-square and correlation) statistics. The study showed that most (66.2%) of the respondents were male whose ages range between 30 and 50 years. also, majority (77.9%) were married with household size of between 5-14. Additionally, 50.3% of the respondents were illiterates with years of farming experience of 5 years and above, 50.4% have farm size of above 15 acres of land. The result showed a low respondents’ level of awareness about extension activities in the study area. It is therefore recommended that farmers adult literacy education programmes should be organize to help the farmers.