Perception of Extension Personnel Towards Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA)

摘要

The present study was conducted during 2017-18 in Bangalore rural, Chickballapur and Kolar districts of southern Karnataka. One hundred and fifty extension personnel were selected with the help of random sampling method for the study. The study revealed that a majority (57.33%) of the respondents had better level of perception towards ATMA programme followed by good (24.00%) and poor (18.67%). A maximum (80.00%) number of the respondents were strongly agreed with the statement that ATMA is a registered society established for promoting convergence of all stake holders at district level. Furthermore, the results also showed that the variables like education, experience in implementing ATMA, achievement motivation, organizational climate had significant and positive association with perception at 1 per cent level of significance, whereas, innovative proneness, attitude towards work, decision making ability, job perception, job performance, job satisfaction and participation in training programme hadpositive association at 5 per cent level of significance with perception of extension personnel towards ATMA. The R2 (0.812) value indicated that, the fifteen independent variables put together, contributed a significant amount of variation (81.20%) in the overall perception level of extension personnel towards ATMA.