The huge human and material resources that Nigerian Government have committed into implementation of agricultural extension system are yet to yield expected dividend. The book filled a gap in knowledge by evaluating the features of Training and Visit (T&V) management system that has been put in place, as a basis for rightly judging the effectiveness of the Unified Agricultural Extension Service (UAES), which adopted T&V in Abia and Akwa Ibom States of Nigeria. As an on-going evaluation, it provided empirical data needed for judging the utility of the UAES and T&V system and the feedback...

Most Nigerian farmers are ageing. A critical challenge for sustainable agricultural and rural development in Nigeria has remained how to mobilize her large population of youths (about 45%) as active participants in the agricultural transformation process. Most Nigerian youths appears to be negatively disposed towards electing agriculture as a course of study or as a vocation. It is imperative to constantly assess studentsattitudes because the link between attitude, subject enrollment, and achievement has been sustained by research. The book presents the nitty gritty of the processes involved...