Abstract
Demonstration techniques are considered to be more effective as compared to other extension teaching methods and an extension agent is expected to adopt these techniques frequently for convincing the illiterate population. The extent to which the extension field staff adopts these techniques would indicate their success. Therefore, 150 respondents of 10 randomly selected villages of Tehsii Bari, District Lorali were interviewed, The analysis of data revealed that the demonstration plots were considered informative, interesting and useful by the farmers. The respon-dents were however, interested to learn the total process and not merely the end re-sults. Thus, the credibility of the extension staff could not be established fully well,
INTRODUCTION
The major function of Agricultural Extension Service is to educate the farmers to a level that they recognize their difficul-tics, understand solutions thereto in the light of research findings can put them to prac-tice. The extent of adoption of modern tech-niques by the farming community directly reflects the efficiency and effectiveness of extension field staff., Bradfield (1975) ob-served that there was no doubt that effective extension workers could speed up the rate of development, According to Supe (1987), for success-ful demonstration, one must also know per-fectly every step in the job. A successful demonstration generally leads to the adop-tion of improved methods and techniques besides bringing about a positive change, The activity of establishing model farms/demonstration plots is to make the farmer a demonstrator, who will apply all the latest agricultural techniques at their farms under the supervision and guidance of the extension field staff. As a result, other farmers will also be motivated to adopt the
new methods/practices as they are practica-ble under local conditions and beneficial in terms of yield, quality and profitability. Thus, considering demonstration method as an indicator of the efficiency of extension field staff, this study was conducted to de-termine the opinion of farmers in this re-spect.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Keeping in view the objective of the study, 10 villages of Bort Tehsil of Lorati District of Balochistan Province formed the sample. By selecting 15 farmers randomly from each village, a total number of 150 re-spondents were interviewed. The data were analysed and interpreted to draw conclu-sions.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Table 1 indicates that the extension field staff mostly exhibited comparison of different varieties in result demonstration but did not give due weightage to the com-parisons of different fertilizers, methods.
