Mohammad Salem Altarawneh(1)* Radi Abdalmajeed Altarawneh(1) Ebraheem Suliman Altahat(2) and Ali Abdullah Gharaibeh(3)
(1). Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Jerash University, Jerash, Jordan.
(2). Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
(3). Jordan Customs Directorate, Amman, Jordan.
(*Corresponding author: Dr. Mohammad Altarawneh, E-Mail: m.tarawneh@jpu.edu.jo).
Received: 01/01/2020 Accepted: 15/06/2020
Abstract
This study comes to reveal the farmer’s perception of the level of accountability in agricultural extension in Jordan, and the effect of some social and economic characteristics on this perception. In this study, the researcher relied on the quantitative and analytical approach, whereby a sample consisting of 264 farmers was taken, and a descriptive analysis was used to estimate the degree of farmers’ perception of the level of accountability in agricultural extension in Jordan. Logistic regression analysis was also used to investigate the impact of participants ‘social and economic characteristics on farmers’ perception of the level of accountability. The study concluded that the level of accountability of extension services as viewed by farmers has come at a moderate degree, as it was found that the age, qualification, number of family members and the number of times of communication affect positively, while the value of the impact of the number of family members has an adverse effect. As for gender, experience, income, style, training, and marital status, they were not statistically significant in their effect. Based on the results, the study recommends conducting awareness-raising seminars for farmers about their rights as clients in the extension process, and that the design of agricultural extension policies be based on ensuring extension accountability by farmers, and that agricultural extension systems in the public sector in Jordan undertake reforms that include demand-based approaches Decentralization to increase the impact of extension on agriculture and agricultural growth in Jordan.
Key words: Agricultural Extension, Accountability, Jordan.