An Anlytic study of Organizational Structure Appropriateness of the Agricultural Extension System as Related To its Activities in Midland Area

The purpose of the study is to identify the extent to which the agricultural extension system is adapted to the extension activities and services in the central region (Homs and Hama), and to identify some of the professional, social and communication characteristics of both the extension staff and the farmers in the studied area. And the extension of some recommendations that help to activate the role of agricultural extension in the research area through the findings of the study results on the structure of agricultural extension existing. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, preliminary data collected by interview and by correspondence (a number of forms were sent to some remote extension units where some of its employees supervised their packaging). The two questionnaire forms were designed for workers in the extension system, On a random sample of 322 workers in the extension system and 289 farmers from the studied society. Percentages and simple correlation coefficients were used, arithmetic and .weighted mean, unidirectional variance analysis, and Toki test The opinions of both agricultural extension workers and farmers agreed to provide farmers with extension publications, monitor pests and spreading insects, record statistical data, and monitor the health status of livestock, .ranking four in a row As for the benefit of farmers from the service concerned with monitoring the health status of livestock, providing veterinary services, and writing down statistical data, it was great, while benefiting from setting up field schools, offering instructional films to farmers, and facilitating marketing operations are .few from the viewpoint of sample farmers It was found that half of the number of extension workers is in the second age group from 38-48 years, and the majority of them are married, 54% of the sample population were female, 85% lived in the same village or in the neighboring village, and 73.3% of them had a university degree (engineering) Agricultural sector exclusively) and above, and 83.5% of respondents had experience in their work more than 11 years, 33.1% had experience in .extension work exceeding 21 years It turned out that the most important factors affecting the extent to which farmers benefit from the activities and services provided in the studied .extension units were: family size, educational level, and family status And that the most important weaknesses in the organizational structure of the extension apparatus from the point of view of the employees in it were: 1- Themajority of extension programs are formally established within the framework of state policies, 2- Assigning workers to tasks and responsibilities related to implementing agricultural legislation outside the scope of extension work, 3- The absence of a job An agricultural guide, 4- The extension organization suffers from a lack of accreditation and funding to implement the extension programs. As for the direct evaluation of the adaptation, it showed that 65.5% of the sample said that the organizational structure of the agricultural extension agency is not appropriate to the activities it undertakes in the region, and that the vast majority of agricultural extension workers(93.5%) suggested changing .the organizational structure of the agricultural extension agency The study recommended the necessity of evaluating the organizational structure of agricultural extension by the side of the structure and the extension staff by defining the powers of each element of the staff and decisively separating the service and extension tasks, and strengthening and strengthening the relationship between agricultural extension devices and agricultural research agencies at various levels