scholarly journals Study on Managerial Functions of Public Extension Service Providers in Andhra Pradesh, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 3320-3324
Author(s):  
S. Naveen Kumar ◽  
P. Gidda Reddy ◽  
R. Ratnakar
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Extension Service

scholarly journals Is community radio an effective tool for health education? Perceptions of stakeholders of a community radio project in north coastal Andhra Pradesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1522
Author(s):  
Vijay Rajana ◽  
K. K. L. Prasad ◽  
B. Devi Madhavi
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Government

Background: Unlike commercial radio, community radio works with local communities and helps in catering their specific needs and necessities and works as an innovative tool in bringing social change by using the participation of common man from the community in the program. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. The objectives of the study were to describe the background information of the community radio services and to assess the perceptions of the rural community about the effectiveness of community radio and challenges in delivering its services.Methods: This study was designed on mixed method approach. Knowledge about health was assessed through a cross-sectional study. Perceptions about the effectiveness of community radio were gathered through focus group discussions. In-depth interviews with service providers obtained limitations and constraints that hinder the effectiveness. Villages surrounding an engineering college in Srikakulam district of north coastal Andhra Pradesh which is being provided community radio services by the institute. People in the selected villages who were provided community radio services and the staff of the engineering college involved in the program.Results: Preliminary results indicate that the beneficiaries found that programmes on care during pregnancy and delivery related issues were most beneficial. Drop out of trained community personnel to provide the health education was a major drawback as per the service providers.Conclusions: This beneficial approach to community needs support from the Government to implement it in every remote corner of our country.

Multiple accountability relationships and improved service delivery performance in Hyderabad City, Southern India

2006 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Caseley
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Delivery Performance ◽  
Public Sector Service ◽  
Sector Service

This article examines a series of service delivery reforms that were undertaken at the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board in Andhra Pradesh State, southern India. Key to sustained improvements in service delivery performance were three effective accountability relationships, triangulating between citizens, senior managers, and frontline workers. In this dynamic, consistent citizen demand for accountability provided new sources of performance information to senior managers, which they could then use to hold frontline workers to account for responsive service provision. Transparent and accessible citizen-based accountability mechanisms have the potential to contribute to organizational change and sustained improvements in service delivery performance in public sector service providers.

scholarly journals Confronting a Global Pandemic: Responses from Caribbean Extension Service Providers

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Jeanelle Joseph ◽  
Tessa Barry
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Technological Barriers ◽  
Regional Basis

Agricultural Extension is an essential service, and this was even more so highlighted in this global pandemic which has significantly affected the agricultural sector. This rapid research sought to assess the capacity of Caribbean extension and advisory service providers. Seventy extension service providers from 11 Caribbean countries responded to an open-ended questionnaire administered via the Survey Monkey platform. The findings indicated that governments played an important role in providing opportunities such as distribution of seedlings to encourage producers, and promoted backyard gardening and other programmes to ensure continuity of country’s food security. Extension officers faced a number of barriers in the execution of their duties. Some of the barriers included technological barriers, limited resources, and limited mobility as a result of the necessary restrictions and in some cases psychological barriers such as the fear of contracting the disease in the execution of their duties. Officers however utilized strategies such as increased use of ICTs to train farmers and link them to market opportunities. In an attempt to increase the use of ICTs a number of challenges were highlighted. Challenges such as limited ICT resources for officers, poor connectivity in some remote areas, aged farmers literacy levels in the use of ICTs as well as access. This rapid research recommends policy development towards the increased use of e-extension with consultation among key stakeholders. This can be done on a regional basis, and eventually scaled up in an effort to further strengthen extension and advisory services globally.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE ACTIVITIES OF EDO STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM EXTENSION SERVICES AMONG SMALL-SCALE CASSAVA FARMERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 584-593
Author(s):  
C. O. Ehilenboadiaye ◽  
E. A. Onemolease ◽  
O. Omoregie
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Improved Varieties ◽  
Edo State

This study assessed the expectations of cassava tuber farmers from the agricultural extension service providers in Edo State, Nigeria. It examined the support presently given to cassava farmers by the extension service viz-a-viz the needs of the farmers. To achieve these objectives, data were collected from 196 cassava tuber producers, randomly sampled from the three agricultural zones in the State. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential (multiple regression, Friedman and Cochran tests) statistics. Cochran test (χ2 = 596.35; p<0.01) revealed that information delivery on available improved varieties (0.939), land clearing/preparation methods (0.878), cassava stem treatment (0.872), recommended planting distance/spacing (0.867) and fertilizer application methods (0.857) were significant areas in which farmers have been supported by the extension service. Friedman test results (χ2 = 135.52; p<0.05) revealed that linking farmers to input suppliers (mean rank = 9.17) and training on proper cutting of cassava stems (mean = 9.10) were among the most significant needs. Multiple regression revealed that farm size (p<0.05) was the only variable significantly correlated with the extension needs of the farmers. The major constraints facing cassava tuber producers included high cost of improved varieties (mean = 3.85) and farming inputs (mean = 3.82) as well as poor access roads for transportation of cassava tubers. Taking advantage of group formation and linkage to credit were recommended.

Tapping the Untapped (Financial Inclusion)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atul Kumar Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Opening Up

As far as our economic growth is concerned, we are growing rapidly .This statement is easily supported by GDP growth. Is this the growth of our whole economy? Ours is an agrarian economy and if people living in those rural areas are not being taken into account properly, then, it will be wrong to say that we are growing rapidly. A major portion of India lives in villages and that area is being excluded by the financial service providers. This article talks about the potential areas i.e. states regarding financial inclusion. This article tries to look into the problems faced by the bankers while opening up a branch in rural areas and problems the faced by customers. Ultimately, financial service providers have to foray into that field. This article gives an insight regarding financial inclusion. An attempt is being made by RBI , they have given some policies in which it is written clearly that Financial inclusion should be there. But it will be worth while to see the supply barriers in this field. The paper talks about those aspects too. This article discusses the issues raised in Andhra Pradesh recently, which should already be avoided by financial service providers. After all, the efforts of financial service providers should be more target oriented and packed with some strategy regarding financial inclusion and this paper just focuses upon some strategies. A survey of a rural area in Bareilly district was made to know the concerns of rural people regarding financial services. This paper is an attempt to peep into the different facets of financial inclusion but it will become effective only then, when policymakers show their required concern over it.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTORS ON STAPLE FOOD PRODUCTION. A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
JAMES KIMANI
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Staple Food ◽  
The Government ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Purpose: Agricultural management practices are key for higher production and are influenced by training as well as financial resources which enable farmers to adopt better practices as well as new farming methods. The general objective of the study was to the study was to establish influence of socio economic factors on staple food production.. Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps. Findings: The study found out that most of the farmers were marginalized on gender, age and education and still suffers inequalities in the development ladder. Gender inequality is still in existence and plays a major role in placing the women in informal sectors, in limited wages employment activities it is an outstanding factor that plays a major role in food insecurity at house hold level. Land is a major resource for food production and majority of the small scale farmers’ occupied land that was self-owned which was less than 1 acre and was not adequate for food production for sustainable food security Recommendations: The study recommends that that the extension services should be improved through retraining of existing extension workers , increasing the number of the extension service providers at farm levels .The government should also increase the facilitation of extension service so as to enable service delivery through training, demonstration , farm visit as well as group trainings amongst other training avenues so as to ensure the farmers are equipped with the right knowledge and technology for staple food production

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