The study aimed to identify the relationships between Farmers and agricultural
extension units in Lattakia and Tartus governorates, the sample included 342 Farmers live
in the work scope of 48 agricultural extension units, located in Lattakia and T
artus
Governorates, the results showed that 75% of the sample were male and 25% were
femal,90% were married, 60% had high school education, agriculture work was the main
job for 25% of farmers, 40% of them did not visit extension units and the mean reason for
that was farmer had another job during the work time of extension units, for 42% of
farmers .Also the result showed that extension units perform agriculture services more
than extension service with low level of performance ,according opinion of 75% of
farmers. The study showed significant relationship between sex (male, female), age,
farmer's education , degree of performance of extension service, degree of performance of
agriculture service in the extension units and information sources of farmers ,all these
factors had significant relationship with the degree of Farmer's communication with
agricultural extension units.
The study was conducted in Damascus district, due to the importance of
vegetable cultivation in this area. Two towns were selected randomly and four
villages from each selected town with ten vegetable farmers from each selected
village were random
ly selected for the study. Thus, the total size of the sample
was 80 farmers. The data was collected with the help of specially designed and
pre-tested interview schedule. The objectives of the study were; to study some
socio - economic variables of vegetable growers, and to know their sources of
agricultural information, marketing channels, training needs and the main
constraints faced them in producing and marketing of vegetables.
