extension agents who always provide new ideas / ideas. the role of extension agents as Initiators in this case is in the Large category. Extension agents provide agricultural innovations to farmers and these innovations can be well absorbed by farmers.
one of the agricultural innovations provided by extension agents in the form of the use of agricultural tools and machines such as the Seed Cleaner machine is a tool that is useful for sorting good grain with grain containing waste.
The tool was never available in Gampong before. Extension agents also provide knowledge needed by farmers, extension agents provide knowledge to farmers so that farmers can apply the knowledge gained from extension agents.
The existence of extension workers will increase the knowledge of farmers in carrying out their farming, farmers will be able to start applying the knowledge, the extension agent provides knowledge about agricultural innovations to farmers so that farmers are more skilled in carrying out their farming.
with the presence of extension workers can help farmers in carrying out their farming a little that is by various types of agricultural innovations taught by extension workers who can make farmers improve the results of their farming.
Routine meetings between farmers and extension workers occur, this is because of the lack of coordination between extension workers and farmers and the lack of extension workers in each village, so this is an obstacle for farmers to get innovation in carrying out their farming business.
Most extension workers provide counseling 3 times in 6 months, this happens because of the lack of extension workers assigned in the village, so that the peasant community must wait their turn to get counseling materials and the absence of new things given by extension workers, such as innovation in agriculture can help farmers in increasing their farm production.
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