Perceived capacities of public extension personnel for climate information dissemination to farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria

IF 0.5 Q4 AGRONOMY

Journal of Agricultural Extension Pub Date : 2022-05-18 DOI:10.4314/jae.v26i2.5

Hilda C. Eta, Oyedeji T. Yekinni, Ginini F. Elemi

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Abstract

The study examined the perceived capacities of public extension personnel for climate information dissemination to farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 72 extension agents. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and were analysed using a multinomial logistic regression at 5% level of significance. Some of the climate information disseminated were information on appropriate measures to take to prevent water shortage due to adverse weather conditions (75%) and early warning signs on events such as drought, flooding etc. (70.8%). Radio and/or television (68.1%), and the Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources (68.1%) were the main sources of climate information. Respondents perceived that they had low capacities for producing and airing radio and television messages on climate change (15.3%) and carrying out impact analysis of climate change effects on farmers (18%). Results of the multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that years of experience (x2 =6.244; p = 0.044); and highest educational qualification (x2 =11.021; p = 0.088) had positively significant effects on capacity to disseminate climate information. Extension staff should be encouraged to go for specialized studies on climate change and be trained to interpret and disseminate agro-meteorological data and information.

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该研究考察了向尼日利亚克罗斯河州的农民传播气候信息的公共推广人员的能力。采用多阶段抽样方法，选取72种推广剂。采用结构化问卷收集数据，采用5%显著性水平的多项逻辑回归进行分析。发放的气候资料中，有一些是有关防止因恶劣天气而引致缺水的适当措施(75%)，以及有关干旱、水浸等事件的早期预警信号(70.8%)。广播电视(68.1%)、农业部和自然资源部(68.1%)是气候信息的主要来源。受访者认为他们制作和播放气候变化广播和电视信息的能力较低(15.3%)，对气候变化对农民的影响进行影响分析的能力较低(18%)。多项logistic回归分析结果显示，工作年限(x2 =6.244;P = 0.044);最高学历(x2 =11.021;P = 0.088)对气候信息传播能力有正显著影响。应鼓励推广工作人员进行关于气候变化的专门研究，并接受解释和传播农业气象数据和资料的培训。

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Journal of Agricultural Extension AGRONOMY-

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1.10

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural Extension (JAE) is devoted to the advancement of knowledge of agricultural extension services and practice through the publication of original and empirically based research, focusing on; extension administration and supervision, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, diffusion and adoption of innovations; extension communication models and strategies; extension research and methodological issues; nutrition extension; extension youth programme; women-in-agriculture; extension, Climate Change and the environment, ICT, innovation systems. JAE will normally not publish articles based on research covering very small geographic area that cannot feed into policy except they present critical insights into emerging agricultural innovations.