Kebede, B. and Amare, G.
(2018)
Measurement of knowledge of farmers on Chickpea demonstration at Adola Rede District, Guji Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia.
Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Research, 9 (3).
pp. 1-6.
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Abstract
Chickpea is important as food and feed crop for farmers. The crop is also significant for generating income due to
its high market demand. Guji Zone has potential of chickpea production, but the yield of chickpea is low due to
absence of improved seed and lack of knowledge on chickpea production. Thus, this study was instigated to
demonstrate new varieties of chickpea to local farmers aligned to measure farmers’ knowledge on chickpea
production. To measure farmers’ knowledge on chickpea the issue of capacity building such as trainings, field visit,
exchange visit and field days were organized to capacitate farmers’ knowledge on chickpea demonstrated varieties.
36 items test were prepared on chickpea production and administrated to 24 farmers who were participants during
the demonstration of chickpea on their land. Items contains yes or no, true or false and explain types. Each correct
answer was given ‘1’ score while wrong answer was awarded ‘0’ mark. Finally, 15 knowledge items test were
selected based on the difficulty index which ranges from 45 to 92, discrimination index above 0.20 and point bi-serial
correlation coefficient significant at 0.1%, 0.05 and 0.001% level for final knowledge test. The reliability of the
knowledge test was measured by split-half method and reliability coefficient (r=0.969) which indicates that this
knowledge test is quite reliable. The result of this study revealed that majority of farmers (83.33%) owned moderate
level of knowledge on chickpea production. Farmers Training Center established in each Kebele should be
functioned to increase farmers’ knowledge on chickpea production.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Knowledge; Reliability; Item analysis; Chickpea;
Demonstration |
| Author Affiliation: |
Bore Agricultural Research Center, P.O Box 21, Bore, Ethiopia |
| Subjects: |
Plant Production |
| Divisions: |
Chickpea |
| Depositing User: |
Mr T L Gautham
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| Date Deposited: |
03 Jan 2019 05:33 |
| Last Modified: |
03 Jan 2019 05:33 |
| URI: |
http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15708 |
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