TRAINING NEEDS OF SUB ASSISTANT AGRICULTURE OFFICER OF FIVE SELECTED UPAZILAS UNDER DINAJPUR DISTRICT

Abstract

the stimly was to determine the training need of Sub Assistant Agriculture officers and to explore its relationships with some selected characteristics of the sub Assistant Agriculture officers. The study was conducted offive selected upazila under Dinajpur District. An updated list of (120) Sub Assistant Agriculture officers were collected from Upazila Agriculture OJjice of respective upazilas. Where front 75% of total nu,nber of SAAOs were 90 Sub Assistant Agriculture of/leers were selected at random as sample for this study. Data were collected during 5 1/i Noventher to 15112 November 2008 by using an interview schedule. Each of the eight characteristics of Sub Assistant Agriculture officers, namely age, education, rural bac/cground, tenure of service, duration of training received, communication exposure, cosniopolitans and organizational participation constituted the independent variables, while training needs of' Sub Assistant Agriculture officers were the dependent variable. Peaiwon 's product moment correlation co-efficient ()') was used to explore the relationships between. the selected characteristics of sub fssistant Agriculture officers and their training need The majority (51 percent) of the respondents had required moderate training needs, while 26 percent had high and 23 percent had low training needs. Out of eight selected characteristics of the Sub Assistant Agriculture of/icers age education, thiranon of training received cosmopolitans organizational participation communication had signI cant and negative relationship with their training needs while tenure of service and rural t'XJ?0511)'(3 background, of the respondents did not show any significant relationship with their training needs.