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.
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