Profile Characteristics of Agricultural Extension Officers of in Nalgonda District of Telangana State, India
V Rama Krishna *
Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, PJTAU, Hyderabad- 500030, India.
R. S. Waghmare
Extension Education Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur-440001, India.
M. Vamshi
Dairy Extension Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Haryana, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present study was undertaken to assess the profile characteristics of agricultural Extension officers working in Nalgonda district of Telangana state’ with sample sizes of 120 Agricultural Extension Officers from the various Mandal of Nalgonda district. The data was collected with the help of an interview schedule prepared for the study. The results indicate that majority of Agricultural Extension Officers were belongs to young age (80.84%), educational qualification is diploma (43.34%), job experience (73.34%) between 1.8 to 6.6 years, training received (61.67%) between 4 to 10 weeks, health (48.34%) had good health, medium level of job stress (58.34%), medium level of aspiration (62.50%), medium level of Achievement Motivation (66.64%) medium level of job commitment (62.50%), medium level of Mass media exposure (55.84%).
Keywords: Profile, agricultural extension officers, department of agriculture, farmers