Perception of agricultural extension personnel of their extension tasks in the governorates of Upper Egypt

This research aims to determine the degree to which respondents who work in the agricultural extension system are perception of extension tasks by: determining the degree of their perception of the nature of agricultural extension work, the job tasks of extension staff workers,  the main roles of extension staff workers, and determining the degree to which they carry out those main roles, identifying the problems they face while carrying out their job tasks, determining the relationship between the independents variables studied of the respondents' and the degree of their perception of the nature of agricultural extension work, and the main roles of extension staff workers. Field research data was collected through a personal interview using a questionnaire prepared specifically for this purpose. The research was conducted on a random sample of 222 members in three Egyptian governorates: Aswan, Luxor and Qena. The most important results of the research are summarized as follows:
 

The average age of respondents who work in agricultural extension is high, as most of them (63.1%) indicated that they are in the age group between 41 – less than 50 years. It was also found that most of the respondents (77.5%) hold moderate school.
A low degree of awareness of the respondents who work in the agricultural extension agency about the nature of agricultural extension work, as the percentages of respondents who are aware of the components of the nature of extension work ranged between 29.3% and 67.1%.
The respondents’ perception levels of the job tasks of agricultural extension workers varied, as they were high with percentages ranging from 41.9% to 68.5% with regard to the job tasks perceived by higher administrative bodies, while those percentages decreased with regard to the job tasks perceived by lower bodies.
As for the respondents’ awareness of the guidance tasks necessary for the six main roles studied: facilitator, organizer, mediator, teacher, technician, consultant, and administrator, the results showed high levels of the respondents’ awareness of them with percentages ranging between 87.8% with regard to the guidance tasks to playing the role The teacher, and between 95.0% regarding the guidance tasks, he played the role of organizer and facilitator.
Despite the high levels of respondents’ awareness of job tasks, they indicated in large percentages that they did not perform these activities, as these percentages ranged between 75.7% for the role of mediator, and 100% for the role of administrator.
There is a positive correlation between the degree the degree of their perception of the nature of agricultural extension work, the main roles of extension staff workers, and some independents variables studied of the respondents'.