Role of Strategic Agricultural Extension Services on Cotton Production in The West Cotton Growing Area of Tanzania: Case of Simiyu Region.

Philbert, Renatus (2022) Role of Strategic Agricultural Extension Services on Cotton Production in The West Cotton Growing Area of Tanzania: Case of Simiyu Region. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the role of strategic agricultural extension services on cotton production in the West Cotton Growing Area of Tanzania. This study sought to examine the extent to which farmers training and farming demonstration of extension services affects the cotton production in the area; to examine the extent to which the institutional arrangement of extension services affects the cotton production in the area and to examine the extent to which the methods of information dissemination of extension services delivery affect cotton production in the area. The study involved the sample size of 168 respondents out of 213 targeted respondents. All respondents where cotton farmers from Nyalanja, Kimali and Kisesa divisions of Meatu District in Simiyu Region. The study found out that trainings and demonstrations, institutional arrangements and methods of information dissemination of extension services to farmers play major role (account for 72.1%) of the variation in cotton production. Methods of information disseminations of extension services to farmers play the most statistically significant role on cotton production, followed by institutional arrangements and training and demonstrations to farmers. The study recommends that other factors of the variation in cotton production rather than effectiveness of strategic agricultural extension on cotton production in the west cotton-growing areas in Tanzania should be established and their influence assessed as well. Keywords: Strategic Agricultural Extension Services, Agricultural Extension, Cotton Production, Growing Area.

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