Extension Services and Sustainable Food Security in Central Senatorial District of Cross River State

This research investigated the relationship between Extension services and sustainable food security in Central senatorial District of Cross River State. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey design was used for the study; Purposive sampling technique was employed to select sample a total of 198 registered famers in Central Senatorial  District  of  Cross  River  State  who  participated  in  the  study.  The instrument used  for  data  collection  was  questionnaire  titled:  “Extension  services  and sustainable food security in Central Senatorial District area Questionnaire” (ESAGSFS) was used to elicit information from the respondents; whereas content validity was used to determine the  instrument  validity,  while  test-retest  was used  to  determine  the  reliability  of the instrument.  The Statistical tool used for analysis was Pearson product Correlation, tested at 0.05 level of significance and .196 degree of freedom.The results obtained from data analysis revealed that in hypothesis one, two and three, there are significant relationship between credit facilitation and sustainable food security; and there is a negative correlation between marketing links and sustainable food security; even as there is a significant relationship between technology transfer and  sustainable  food  security respectively.  It was concluded that extension services delivered through adragogical extensionalia approaches have significant relationship with sustainable food security in Central Senatorial District of Cross River State. Finally, it was recommended that Extension workers should be regularly trained and retrained to update their knowledge on modern agricultural technologies, communication methods, and sustainable farming practices, skills which they should pass to the farmers through train the trainer approach.

Keywords: Food Security, Extension services, technology transfer, Sustainable farming Practices, farmers, Central Senatorial District.