The Effective Agricultural Extension Approach
Bahgat M. Abdel-Maksoud *
Department of Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This paper is a review article. It depended on information obtained from secondary sources (books and scientific journals). The main purposes of this paper were to: review the definition of extension approach and present various types of agricultural extension approaches defined by researchers, determine attributes of the effective agricultural extension approach and qualities and necessary conditions for this approach, review different methodologies used to measuring the effectiveness of agricultural extension approaches, propose determinants of the effectiveness measurement of extension approaches, and finally to present the application of extension approaches in Egypt.
Keywords: Attributes, determinants of effectiveness, Egypt, measuring effectiveness of extension approaches, qualities and conditions, types of extension approaches