Author(s):

P Nikitha, V Sudha Rani, G Samuel and A Madhavilata

Abstract: Most of the technologies transferred by the extension personnel to the farmer is of top to bottom approach rather than bottom-up approach. Unless the farmer learns how to adopt a new technology he is not motivated to adopt it. Hence greater importance has to be given to the learning preferences of the farmer there by matching it with the suitable extension teaching methods as expressed by farmers that would enable appropriate and suitable selection of extension teaching methods for continuous and effective learning. A sample of 120 farmers were taken as respondents for the study from two districts i.e (Nalgonda and Mahaboobnagar) of Telangana state. Thirty extension personnel working in two districts in the study area from the department of agriculture and allied sectors i.e A.O’s, A.E.O’s, H.O’s, H.E.O’s, V.A.S’s were included to study the “Extent of use of extension teaching methods by the extension personnel”. The survey results showed that less than majority 41.66 percent of the respondents had medium level of suitability towards extension teaching methods followed by low, very low, high, very high level of suitability towards extension teaching methods in relation to learning styles of farmers. Where most of the extension teaching methods used by the extension personnel were based on their convenience rather than learner centered and thus extension teaching methods used were not in-accordance with farmers style of learning.

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