Operationalizing the training and visit system in Bandung District of West-Java Indonesia

Date

8-1989

Abstract

The study is primarily designed the operationalization of the raining and visit (T and V) system in Bandung district of West Java to derive some policy implications for the improvement of agricultural extension service.

A total of 261 extension workers, contact farmers, farmer clientele agricultural extension officers, personnel of service agencies, and government officials served as respondents for this study. Information was also collected through pertinent documents available in the office of agricultural service agency, reports and papers. Descriptive as well as statistical methods were used in the analysis of the data.

The training component was found to be the main constraint in the operationalization of the T and V system. Extension personnel were critical of the lack of relevant subject matter in training, and inadequate operational funds, transport and other physical facilities were also the dominant factors which were disfunctional to the T and V system. It is evident in the study that the fixed schedule of visits and training is vulnerability and threatening the very survival of the T and V system due to the fact that there is considerable variability in the social and physical environments of the rural community.

The findings indicated that most of the PPLs were inadequately trained and lacked confidence in dealing with farmers. Poor coordination and lack of working relationship within the organization of extension and with other related agencies, inadequate facilities of credit and farm input supply for the farmers, and poor attitude of extension personnel toward their job served as constraints in the operationalization of the T and V system.

In spite of these findings, the study demonstrated that there are indications of agriculture and rural development process and improvement in farmers' welfare in the study areas after the implementation of the T and V system. The study revealed the development of favorable attitude of CFs and PPLs towards their job. A great majority of the CFs said that they were happy doing their job as it increased their status and roles in society, while PPLs perceived that the operationalization of the T and V system enhanced the development of their status, confidence and courage.

In the case of technology adoption, it appeared that CFs and BFs were more innovative than their counterparts (FCI and SFs), The findings also revealed that technology promotion in the case of small farmers was more persuasive in the lowland area than in the Upland because of its simple technology, less risk, better irrigation facilities, better input supply service, and better marketing facilities.

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Master of Science in Extension Education

College

Graduate School (GS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Obdulia F. Sison

Committee Member

Rogelio V. Cuyno, Remedios C. Orozco, Blanda R. Sumayao

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 996 1989 A16 S85

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