Practices and Challenges of Rural Youths Participation in Agriculture Extension Services Case of Adea Berga Woreda, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Study area is considered among the most regions affected by traditional practices, lack of credit facilities, limited startup capital, poor faming technology and absence of good strategy and policies for rural youths participations in Agriculture extension services in order to provide food security and desirable qualities that can promote for youths in Kalo, sire Berga and kito kebeles levels. The current study aimed to put solution as a recommendation of this province in order to manage and control problems.

In this exploration Data were collected from Kalo, Sire Berga and Kito kebeles’ of Adea Berga district through questionnaires, focus group discussion and interviews and analyzed by the SPSS software model.

Most of the youths were migrate to the urban areas to search for job, employ in industries to work with, good social amenities and access to loans and enjoy high standard of living in the urban areas and Majority of the youths were attracted to invest more in their own farms rather than being employed as labour of rural youths who were participated in Agriculture Extension Service were provided with their socioeconomic needs. Furthermore, Federal and state governments in Ethiopia have not adopted capacity building on agriculture to reduce youth unemployment, restiveness and re-awake agriculture potentials and less attention was given by agriculture stake holders of the study kebeles the roles of youth's participation in providing agriculture extension services, food insecurity and ineffective agriculture productivities were becoming a headache to the society of the study kebeles for several years.