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Inaugural Lecture (Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology

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    Extension for the Emancipation of the Silent Majority
    (Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1985-05-14) Akinbode, I. A.
    This inaugural address could not have come at a better time than now when the country's extension system is in a state of utter confusion if not.total collapse. Extension as an educational process and programme is usually on the priority list of programmes to be jettisoned anytime there is problem in the nation's economy. Extension programmes and staff are moved from one agency to another, oftentimes .to those with little or no understanding of what it is all about, nor appreciation of its principles and philosophy, and they' are replaced with 'crash' programmes which often crash before take-off. The consequence of this is that the country's peasants who still account for about 95 percent of Nigeria's agricultural output suffer. This then is the origin, of the title of my inaugural lecture, "Extension for the emancipation of the silent majority".
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    Andragogical Transmission: the Secret of National Food Surplus
    (Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1998) Adegboyega Jibowo, A.
    The history of agricultural extension as a profession had been subsumed under the overall history of agricultural development in Nigeria. Although a well recognised area of knowledge, the development of extension as an academic discipline has not been strongly pursued as that of some other technical agricultural disciplines. Although continuous research is essential for the advancement of knowledge in technical agriculture, much improved information is available which if applied could lead to production of national food surplus. What is lacking is the adequate transmission to, and application of such information by farmers to generate food surplus. However, extension is faced with many problems which had made it ineffective in playing the role of transmitting improved technical information in agriculture to farmers, and assisting them in applying the same. The most important problems include lack of access to adequate financial assistance, inadequate number of extension agents and inadequate supply of farm inputs.