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    Assessment of public extension personnel’s capabilities and use of electronic sources for extension service delivery in Kwara State
    (Journal of Sustainable Development, 2021-12) SK Subair, OJ Yusuf, IF Ayanda, OL Abdulrahman
    The study assessed public extension personnel’s capabilities and use of electronic sources for extension service delivery in Kwara state, Nigeria. All (125) public extension personnel in the state main extension agency were used for the study. This comprises 17, 40, 33 and 35 extension personnel from zones A, B, C and D of the state, respectively. Structured questionnaire was used for primary data collection, complemented by key informant interview. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, such as frequency count, percentages, mean and standard deviation while correlation matrix and principal component (factor) analysis were used for inferential deductions. Information elicited from the key informant interview were used to corroborate the quantitative findings. The extension personnel had basic foundational education and deemed literate enough to make use of electronic resources. They possessed good technical knowledge and skills to make use of electronic resources for accessing and disseminating agricultural information. There was increasing use of electronic resources among public extension personnel within the agricultural sector, owing to continuous proliferation of digital literacy and pervasiveness of electronic gadgets, globally, Nigeria inclusive. More knowledgeable personnel had better perception about benefits of e-resources, and equally encountered more constraints using them. The principal component analysis yielded five main constraints’ categories associated with use of electronic resources among the extension personnel namely ‘psychomotor’, ‘cognitive related’ and ‘internet related’ factors, in order of their contribution to total percent variation. Others were ‘infrastructure related’ and ‘affective’ factors, respectively.