Abstract:
The current study was primarily intended to examine the capacity of the Sub Assistant Agriculture
Officers (SAAOs) of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and to determine the
correlations between each of the SAAOs selected characteristics and their capacity. Age,
academic achievement, service length, job facilities, mass media contact, and farmers' problem
awareness were the selected characteristics of the SAAOs. All the five upazilas of Gazipur district
were chosen as the locale of the study and data were collected from 98 SAAOs, of those five
upazilas. The data were gathered by the researcher himself through personal contact with a wellstructured
interview schedule. The capacity of the SAAOs was assessed by their respective
supervisor (AEO) and three farmers from the relevant block of the concerned SAAOs. Finally,
capacity of a SAAO was finally measured by the average of supervisor and farmers’ rating.
Majority (56.1%) of the SAAOs had medium capacity and 33.7% and 10.2% had low and high
capacity. Thus, overwhelming majority (89.8%) of the SAAOs had low to medium capacity to
perform their duties. From spearman’s rank correlation, it was found that there were significant
correlation between service length, job facilities, mass media contact and farmers’ problem
awareness of the SAAOs with their capacity. From the findings, it may be concluded that SAAOs
having more service length, job facilities, mass media contact and farmers’ problem awareness
had more capacity to provide necessary agricultural advisory services to the farmers.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Extension and Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
