GOÜ Ziraat Fakültesi Öğrencilerinin Tarımsal Yayım ve Danışmanlık Sistemi Hakkındaki Bilgi Durumu ve Düşüncelerinin Araştırılması

In Turkey can take some time innovation adoption process that under the influence of many social, economic and cultural factors. Agricultural advisory activities was given to emphasis in order to control this process and make it more functional. Agricultural consultation activities have been the focus of attention in recent years as an alternative to raise producer awareness. This study tried to reveal GOÜ Agricultural Engineering Faculty students and post-graduate students’ information about agricultural advisory system and their expectations about the future of agricultural consultation. It also handled some recommendations about agricultural extension training program. As for the population of the research, the study took the number of students at GOÜ Agricultural Faculty and GOÜ Institute of Natural Sciences, Agricultural Sciences Department into consideration. The cluster sampling method was used to determine the study group. A questionnaire was administered to 256 undergraduate and 81 graduate students. Chi-square analysis was applied to the data and cross tables were created. It was determined that 54.30 % of Agricultural Engineering students were worried about the future of extension. On the other hand, 45.70 % of the students were of the opinion that agricultural consultation would progress positively. This suggests that the population considered to be the extension authorities of the future did not have a consensus about the future of extension and they were worried about mainly the future of extension system. When examined whether agricultural faculty students knew the institution responsible for agricultural extension, 72.40 % stated that the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock was responsible for it. 27.60 % of the students studying agricultural engineering did not know the institution responsible for agricultural extension and this suggests that extension services could not be taught adequately. This can be thought to stem from the fact that the agricultural extension course is not taught in all departments of agricultural faculty. In this context, it can be recommended that agricultural extension course should be taught effectively in all departments of agricultural faculties.