Abstract

The study aimed to identify the actual responsibilities assigned to agricultural staff to improve the extension work in the Directorate of Agriculture of Nineveh, to identify the correlation between the reality of the extension tasks provided to agricultural employees and the variables (age, level of education, job service, participation in training courses, desire for renewal). In addition to identifying the most important proposals of agricultural employees to overcome the extension obstacles they face while performing their work. The research community included all employees within the agricultural sector of the Directorate of agriculture ,and its agricultural divisions, and their number (400) employees, in the city center and the agricultural divisions, amounting to (28) divisions, , a simple sample was extracted randomly and by (25%) Therefore, the final research sample reached (100) employees. A survey form was used to collect data consisting of three parts, the first part: includes personal and functional characteristics of respondents .The second section was a measure to determine the reality of the extension tasks provided to agricultural employees to improve the extension work, which included (20) items. The third part included the most prominent proposals made by the employees themselves and to identify the proposals of their working. The findings indicated that the level of application of agricultural employees to the extension tasks is average and tends to rise, findings indicated a significant association between the reality of the extension tasks provided to agricultural employees and the following independent variables (age, level of education, desire for renewal).