Table 3.
Frequency of access to extension services.
| Smallholder dairy farmers (n = 120), F=Frequency |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency of contact with extension service providers |
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| Extension Services sources |
Never |
Rarely |
Occasionally |
Often |
Very Often |
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| F | % | F | % | F | % | F | % | F | % | |
| Government | 59 | 49.2 | 42 | 35.0 | 13 | 10.8 | 3 | 2.5 | 3 | 2.5 |
| Agrodealers | 13 | 10.8 | 30 | 25.0 | 57 | 47.5 | 9 | 7.5 | 11 | 9.2 |
| NGOs | 91 | 75.8 | 24 | 20.0 | 4 | 3.3 | 1 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
| SACCOs | 107 | 89.2 | 5 | 4.2 | 7 | 5.8 | 1 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Farmer groups | 60 | 50.0 | 26 | 21.7 | 19 | 15.8 | 8 | 6.7 | 7 | 5.8 |
| Research institutions | 84 | 70.0 | 25 | 20.8 | 9 | 7.5 | 2 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Universities | 90 | 75.0 | 21 | 17.5 | 7 | 5.8 | 2 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Television | 18 | 15.0 | 4 | 3.3 | 17 | 14.2 | 9 | 7.5 | 72 | 60.0 |
| Radio | 22 | 18.3 | 13 | 10.8 | 21 | 17.5 | 10 | 8.3 | 54 | 45.0 |
| Mobile phone | 74 | 61.7 | 15 | 12.5 | 6 | 5.0 | 7 | 5.8 | 18 | 15.0 |
| Neighbours and friends | 24 | 20.0 | 16 | 13.3 | 28 | 23.3 | 26 | 21.7 | 26 | 21.7 |