The Impact of The Knowledge and Skills of Producers' Group Leaders and Extension Agents and Their performance ability in Management, Organization and Networking (Case Study: Small Producers Project - Blue Nile State)

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the impact of an administrative and organizative knowledge and skills of producer groups leaders and extension agents on their performance ability in management, organizing and networking of these groups, by studying the producer groups set up by supporting Small Producers Project in the Blue Nile State, to achieve this objective, the social survey method was used and a sample size to be exposed to the research tool was determined by 65 respondents (51 groups leaders and 14 extension agents) which represents (28%) of respondents in total (232). in 3 localities, Al-Rosaires, Al-Tadamun and Wadah Al-Mahi, The researcher used the questionnaire to collect the primary data, The data were analyzed by SPSS software to calculate frequencies and percentages, in addition to spearman correlation coefficient to measure the study hypothesis, which states that an administrative and organizative knowledge and skills of producer groups leaders and extension agents are not significantly correlated to their performance ability in management, organizing and networking of these groups. The results indicated to a statistically significant correlation between an administrative knowledge and skills of producer groups leaders and their performance ability in decision making, management and supervision, goal determine, communication and networking, and team spirit, while there is no significant correlation between organizative knowledge and skills of extension agents and their performance ability in providing support on carrying out agricultural practices, providing a financing information, training and network of groups. The researcher recommended to the authorities concerned, the most important of which are: Ongoing work to increase a knowledge and skills of agricultural extension agents and producer groups leaders in general, with a focus on Blue Nile State producer groups and extension agents, to improve their performance ability in management, organization and networking.