An Assessment of the Role of Extension Officers in Enhancing
Agricultural Safety Awareness in Cross River State, Nigeria

Etim; Ofem Usang; Kennedy; Okoi Obu; Ntui; Oliver Effiong; Ayi; Nsa Akiba

doi:https://doi.org/10.56201/ijaes.v8.no4.2022.pg1.17

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An Assessment of the Role of Extension Officers in Enhancing Agricultural Safety Awareness in Cross River State, Nigeria

Etim, Ofem Usang, Kennedy, Okoi Obu, Ntui, Oliver Effiong & Ayi, Nsa Akiba

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This study assesses the role of extension officers in enhancing agricultural safety awareness in Cross River State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to identify the qualifications needed by agricultural extension officers to ensure safety in agriculture in the study area, asses the roles of Agricultural Extension agents in enhancing agricultural safety awareness in the study area, determine the factors that constitutes the extension safety awareness process in the study area and ascertain the challenges to extension officer’s safety awareness to Farmers in the study area. The population of the study was all the agricultural extension agents in the Cross River State Agricultural Development Programme (CR-ADP). Both primary and secondary data were adopted and the simple random sampling technique was used to select 83 respondents for the study. The findings revealed that Agricultural Extension agents required certain qualifications to enhance safety awareness to Farmers. That the roles of Agricultural Extension officers is crucial to the development of safety awareness education in the study area as most of the variables were highly significant with a mean of 3.0. That certain factors which were all highly significant in the study constitute the agricultural extension safety awareness process. All the constraints identified were all significant. The study recommended that the poor allocation/allowance and low motivation of extension agents should be addressed by collaborating agencies including the government.

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Agricultural ExtensionAgricultural safetyRole of extensionSafety Awareness

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