Activities of the Extension Communications for the Extension Workers at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate
Abstract
The paper mainly aimed to identify the activities of the extension communications for extension workers at Kafr El-Sheikh governorate. The research data were collected from all the respondents by the personal & telephone questionnaire and E-mail. It was analyzed by using several statistical tools as: percentage, frequencies, means, and standard deviation, weight means. The most important results were: The most extension communication methods for target groups such as farmers, rural leaders, rural youth and rural women were: Informational symposium about 89.1%, extension posters by 74.8%, then mobile phone by 56.5%, office visits by 54.4%. As for the official authorities such as colleagues & heads of work, rural & agricultural social organizations, and research centers (Research Center and the University) were: mobile phone by 75%, then office visits at 65.2%, extension meetings by 56.5%. It was found that the weekly communication were first place with an average of 40.8%, followed by the monthly communication with by 31.9%, then the daily communication by 31.8%. It was found that the timing of the morning communication ranked first by 77.2%, then the time for calling at noon by 48.6%.