420736

Quality of the Agricultural Extension Organization in Assiut Governorate

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Last updated: 09 Apr 2025

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Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension

Abstract

This research aims to identify the gap between perceptions and expectations of extension personnel in Assiut Governorate regarding the dimensions of the extension organization's quality. The study used the extension organization quality scale developed by Diab (2017)The scale consists of 66 items distributed over five dimensions: institutional and field capacity of the extension agency (12 items), strategic planning and senior management support for quality in agricultural extension (9 items), administrative arrangements in the extension agency (16 items), culture and efficiency of institutional communications in the extension agency (16 items), and capabilities of employees in the extension agency (13 items).The research was conducted on 56 extension personnel in Assiut Governorate Data were collected using questionnaire forms from January to February 2024. Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, and median were used for data presentation and analysis. The results indicated a negative gap between the respondents' perceptions and their expectations of the quality of the agricultural extension organization.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2025.317962.1400

Keywords

Assiut Governorate, Dimensions of Quality, Extension organization, Quality

Authors

First Name

Dina

Last Name

Bakr

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

dinabakr1111@gmail.com

City

Assiut

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First Name

Bahgat

Last Name

Abdel-Maksoud

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

maksoud43@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

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First Name

Samia

Last Name

Helal

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

samya.hilal@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdel-Ghany

MiddleName

M.M.

Affiliation

Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

abdelghany18@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0001-8514-4879

Volume

56

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

52760

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-11-01

Publish Date

2025-01-26

Page Start

347

Page End

359

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_420736.html

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http://journals.ekb.eg?_action=service&article_code=420736

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420,736

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Original Article

Type Code

62

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Quality of the Agricultural Extension Organization in Assiut Governorate

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09 Apr 2025