Abstract:
Farmers field schools (FFS) are becoming popular to educate the farmers, and Government of Pakistan is convinced to adopt the FFS approach to reach marginalized rural poor farming community. Initially it was launched in 14 districts of Punjab. The present study was conducted to analyse the effectiveness of extension methods being used under FFS approach in Punjab. Data were collected with the help of interview schedule from randomly selected 341 respondents in three districts of Punjab viz. Sargodha, Sheikhupura and Vehari. The results show that 63.58 and 58.6 percent respondents were of the view that extension methods such as group discussion and lecture were used to an average extent, whereas 31.93 percent respondents were of the view that sign boards / slogans was the method used by FFS staff to a below average extent. Similarly group discussion method ranked first among others with weighted score 1107, mean value 3.24 and standard deviation 0.77. Exhibition was the extension method ranked last with weighted score 65, mean value 2.50 and standard deviation value 1.27.
Page(s):
259-265
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Year: 2010