Factors that Affects the Agriculture Extension Officers’ Skills on Cyber Extension-Based Agriculture Extension

Abstract

In the cyber extension implementation, it was found that agriculture extension officers still have limited skills, namely in knowledge, attitude and skills in practice. Agriculture extension officers, who were expected to be capable in extending information about agriculture growth and motivating society to act right under the demand of information technology development, were not capable to fulfill the standard competition. This study was trying to cover that area and in the same time to study extension officers’ skills. The aim of this research was to know extension officers’ skills on cyber extension-based agriculture extension and factors that affected extension officers’ skills on cyber extension-based agriculture extension. This research was held in Tulungagung Regency, East Java, by taking samples of 105 agriculture extension officers using the simple random sampling technique. Data then was analyzed with path analysis. Form the analysis result that was based on Bloom’s psychomotoric Aspect distribution, it found that the psychomotoric skill of Tulungagung Regency’s agriculture extension officers was on perception level but there was some extension officers that reached origination level. Whereas, the result of path analysis concluded that factors that affected the extension officers on cyber extension-based agriculture extensions in Tulungagung Regency were the extension officers’ knowledge and attitude on cyber extension.

Keywords : cyber extension, extension officer, training, knowledge, attitude dan skills.