Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter
Monday 14th August 2017
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 079: Farmers’ Attitude Towards Involvement of Farmers’ Organizations In Provision of Extension Services [RESEARCH PROJECT]*
ABSTRACT
Inadequate provision of reliable and qualitative extensionservices to peasant and other farmers in Nigeria has remained a chronic problem (working against) the nation’s agricultural development drive. Using a simple random sample of 70 farmers, this study dealt with the attitude of farmers towards their organization’s involvement in the provision of extension services and the factors influencing such attitude. It was found that majority of the respondents were favorably disposed towards the idea of involving farmers’ organization
Type of farmers’ organization, the gender of the farmers and geographical location of the farmers are highly but negatively correlated with the farmers’ attitude towards their organization’s involvement in extension. The regression analysis showed that the type of farmers’ organization (beta = -0.74) is the single most important factor that determines the nature of attitudes towards farmers’ organizations’ involvement in extension among small scale farmers in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State.
FARMERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS INVOLVEMENT OF FARMERS’ ORGANIZATIONS IN PROVISION OF EXTENSION SERVICES [RESEARCH PROJECT]*
Investigating A Different – Participatory – Approach to Improving Extension Services Delivery
NB: *This PDF paper is based on a 1992 undergraduate final year research project study I carried out in fulfillment of the requirements for a B.Sc. in Agricultural Extension Services from University of Ibadan’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry.
I put in great effort to prepare for and execute the project. Coming up with the topic was something my Project Supervisor (then “Dr.” and later “Prof.”) Terry Olowu did not let me fool around with. He drilled me extensively, and challenged me to do everything right from start till end.
I however believe what is most noteworthy today, is that reading through the paper, one readily sees that its contents remain relevant to development in Nigeria’s agriculture sector even today!
The challenge of what has been described in some circles as a “near comatose: extension services delivery system, make the ideas proposed for adoption in this paper worthy of serious consideration by policy makers and stakeholders in Nigeria’s agriculture industry.
This is why I’ve chosen to publish it here as a downloadable FREE PDF paper, for interested persons to study.
NB; It goes without saying that some concepts and bodies referred to in the paper are now obsolete. However, the overall strategy investigated remains undeniably relevant to our current situation!
I’m willing to discuss with interested stakeholders about possible applications of this paper’s findings ore even conducting an updated version that takes into account changes that may have taken place since this original study was done.
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SDN Blog™
New posts from last week*
Monday:
PII 078: [Farm Business Success] Required Role of 21st Century Farm Business Support Experts
[Tuesday]:
[Wednesday]:
[Thursday]:
Web Marketing Guide Notes to a Real Estate Web Marketing Client [Hint: What You Know Matters – But Not As Much As What You Need to Learn]
[Friday]:
Be A Prudent Buyer – Use This Simple Return On Investment Analysis
[Saturday]:
N/A
[Sunday]:
The FARM CEO (Issue 90): Agricultural Prosperity In Dry Africa – by Prof. Dov Pasternak [PDF Download]
Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement
Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====
On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.
Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.
But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.
If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.
Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))
Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:
Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix
(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)
And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:
A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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