USEFULNESS OF TEACHING METHODS TO THE FARMERS RECOMMENDED UNDER REVISED EXTENSION APPROACH OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to have an understanding on the usefulness of teaching methods used tinder revised extension approach of DAE. The relationship between selected characteristics of the fhrmers (age, level of education, family size, lhrni size, agricultural knowledge, annual income, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, organizational participation and attitude towards modem agricultural technology) and the usefulness of' teaching methods was also explored. l3eside this an attempt was made to compare the perceived usefulness of teaching methods by the farmers and Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer (SAAO). Data were obtained from 100 lhrmers of four villages namely Soyedpur, Komolapur, l)oyara. and Kamairbag of Kalirbazar Union of sadar upazila tinder Comilla district, with the help of interview schedule. Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the concerned variables. Coffelation co-efficient was computed to explain the relationship between the concern dependent and independent variables and individual sample I-test was computed to explore the comparison between the perceived usefulness of teaching methods by the farmers and SAAO. The findings revealed that 52 percent of the respondents perceived medium usefulness 29 percent perceived high usefulness and only 19 percent perceived low usefulness of different teaching methods. The findings also revealed that level of education, farm size, agricultural knowledge, annual income, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, organizational participation and attitude towards modem agricultural technology had significant positive relationship with the usefulness of teaching methods. However, age and family size oftlie farmers had no significant relationship with the usefulness of teaching methods. A significant difference between the usefulness of teaching methods as perceived by the Farmers and by the SAAO was also revealed by the study.