Training needs of women agriculture extension officers in Telangana state

Abstract

Training is the process of gaining knowledge, abilities, and skills necessary to perform roles effectively in a job. The training needs for extension officers differ from person to person, crop to crop, agroclimatic zone, and from time to time as a result of the rapid advancements in technology. The present study deals with the training needs of Women Agriculture Extension Officers (AEO’s). The respondents from all the 33 districts of Telangana state were covered, making a total of 120 samples for the study. Hence, it was revealed that majority of the respondents had overall medium level of training needs in all the aspects of trainings. Individual aspects included Technical (65.83%), Managerial (67.50%), Extension (75.00%) and Frontier areas of agricultural sciences (49.17%), respectively. It was observed that the variables like family size, information seeking behaviour and achievement motivation were having significant and positive correlation with the training needs while age, education, total years of experience and access to trainings were having a significant and negative correlation with training needs.