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Access and Utilization of Agricultural Extension Services among Rural Ethiopian Women

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Title Access and Utilization of Agricultural Extension Services among Rural Ethiopian Women
 
Creator Melesse, Birhanu
 
Subject Agricultural Extension
Agricultural Extension System
Extension activities
Women Farmers
Ethiopia
 
Description The review paper analyzed factors affecting access and utilization of agricultural extension service among rural Ethiopian women. The objective of this paper was to review factors affecting access and utilization of agricultural extension service. Secondary sources of data were used by reviewing the findings of different researchers on the research title. "Women comprise, on average, 43 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries. Agriculture sector has been the recognition that past efforts have failed in part because they overlooked women's role in the sector and the role of gender inequalities in reducing agricultural productivity. The following factors including age, marital status, income, and educational attainment as well as social categories such as ethnicity and gender influence the abilities of technicians to deliver the knowledge they have and the willingness and capacity of producers and processors to make use of the services offered influence that men and women farmers have on the content of agricultural extension services and the manner in which it is delivered. In general, strengthening women's skills is essential to enable women to participate in agricultural extension service and articulate their extension needs
 
Publisher National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE)
 
Date 2020-06-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JAEM/article/view/159568
 
Source Journal of Agricultural Extension Management; Vol. 21 No. 1 (2020); 137
0976-3120
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JAEM/article/view/159568/57070
 
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