The Relationship between Agricultural Extension and Agricultural Rural Organizations As Seen by Agricultural Extension Workers in Kafrelsheikh Governorate

The main objective of this research was to identify the relationships between agricultural extension and agricultural rural organizations as seen by agricultural extension workers in Kafr Elsheikh governorate. The agricultural rural organizations were: Agricultural Cooperative Association, veterinary unit, and the village’s Bank.
Data were collected by a personal questionnaire from two random samples consisting of 152 agents at the village’s level, and 66 from the extension workers at the the extension Centers level in Kafr Elsheikh governorate  Sample Size was decided according to Krejcie and Morgan tables. Percentages, frequencies, and the arithmetic means were used for analysis data.
The most important research findings are:
1- More than one third of all respondents mentioned weakness of the relationship between the agricultural extension and the rural agricultural organizations be week. The Two groups of Sample mentioned that the strong relationship has been absent Approximately.
2-  Agricultural Cooperative Associations occupied the forefront of strength of the relationship between the agricultural extension and the studied rural      agricultural organizations from point of view of all respondents, followed by village banks and veterinary units .The order was  slightly different for in the other village level and extension centers level respondents.
3- The official form is the prevailing form in most dimensions of relationship of agricultural extension and studied agricultural rural organizations.
-  The major constraints that limit the effectiveness of the relationship between agricultural extension and the  studied agricultural rural organizations were: lake of  coordination & the cooperation between the agricultural extension and rural agricultural organizations, complexity of the procedures needed for exchange information& resources  between agricultural extension and rural agricultural organizations, nonexislack of effective channels of communication between agricultural extension and rural agricultural  organizations, and the weakness of the available possibilities for the agricultural extension and  agricultural rural organizations, in general.
5-  The major suggestions of the respondents to increase the effectiveness of relationship between agricultural extension and rural organizations were: simplifying  procedures for the exchange of information,and resources and between agricultural extension and agricultural rural organizations, informing the officials and the workers in the organizations with the  importance of  cooperative relationship with the agricultural   extension; encouraging the workers in the agricultural organizations and   agricultural  extension to consolidate cooperative relationships among  themselves, supporting  programs  among villages level organizations, and to   take enough measures to support cooperative relationship between agricultural extension and agriculture rural organizations.