Indian Journal of Extension Education

National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, (MANAGE) Hyderabad, designed a one-year diploma course entitled ‘Diploma in Agricultural Extension Services for Input Dealers’ (DAESI) which imparts relevant and locationspecific agricultural education to equip these input dealers with sufficient knowledge to transform them into para-extension professionals so as to enable them to address the day-to-day problems being faced by the farmers at field level. The objective of the study was to study the opinion of the input dealers about DAESI programme. The study was conducted on 120 input dealers from three different types of National Training Institutes (NTIs), organizing DAESI training programme including KVK, Tabiji, Ajmer, ARS, Navgoan, Alwar and SIAM, Jaipur. The results on overall opinion reveal that majority (55.00 %) of the input dealers had most favourable opinion followed by 25.00 per cent with favourable opinion and 20.00 per cent have expressed an unfavourable opinion towards DAESI programme. Also that there was no significant difference between the opinions of the input dealers from different NTIs about DAESI training programme.