Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 2

Constraints faced by the extension personnel with the existing transfer of technology system of state department of agriculture

  • Author:
  • Manisha Pandey1, Dhriti Solanki2,*, Rajshree Upadhyay2, Rishika Negi1
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Published Online: Sep 21, 2024
  • Page Number: 463 to 468

1Professor, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community and Applied Sciences (Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology), Udaipur, Rajasthan

2Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community and Applied Sciences (Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology), Udaipur, Rajasthan

*Corresponding author email id: dhritisolanki11@gmail.com

Online Published on 21 September, 2024.

Abstract

The present paper highlights the constraints faced by the extension personnel with the existing transfer of technology system of State Department of Agriculture. The sample of extension personnel consisted of 207 respondents i.e. 11 Officials (Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors and Agriculture Officers) and 196 functionaries (Assistant Agriculture Officers and Agriculture Supervisors) of State Department of Agriculture. The findings reveal that among all the constraints administrative constraint was the most severe with MPS 51.73 and ranked I. The other constraints faced by the respondents were operational constraints with 50.11 MPS and rank II followed by general, infrastructural, technical and financial constraints with MPS 49.94, 44.23, 43.79 and 39.89 and rank III, IV, V, and VI, respectively.

Keywords

Constraints, Transfer of technology, State department of agriculture