Abstract
The major objective of this paper is to investigate the role of
women in agricultural extension services in Gusau Local
Government Area, Zamfara State, Nigeria. The paper identified
the extent of women participation in agricultural extension
work and analyses the impact of extension services in the study
area. Various problems were identified that was responsible to
non involvement of women in agricultural activities in the
study are. A total sample of ninety (90) respondents was
selected out of the three (03) wards representing half of the Local
Government Area. The major conclusions drawn from this
paper were the inputs and transportation facilities. Apart from
extension services, women undertake other agricultural
activities such as crop production, livestock production,
processing and storage of agricultural products. The major
constraints to rural women non participation in agricultural
extension service was lack of the government support, language
barrier, religious bias and illiteracy. Therefore, in view of the
above Null Hypothesis Ho accepted and alternate Hypothesis
Ha is rejected. It is recommended that local leadership should
encourage women to register for adult literacy programme so as
to uplift the literacy level in the study area. Extension workers
should regularly visit women farmers so as to teach them
extension message coming from Research Institutes.
Monitoring, evaluation and supervision of extension staff is
necessary to improve extension services for rural farmers.
Dr. Abida Taherani, Dr. Lawal Mohammad Anka. (2014) The Role Of Women In Agricultural Extension Services: A Case Study Of Gusau, Local Government Area, Zamfara State, Nigeria, The Women - Annual Research Journal of Gender Studies, Volume-06, Issue-1.
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