Quality of the Agricultural Extension Organization in Assiut Governorate

This research aims to identify the gap between perceptions and expectations of extension personnel in Assiut Governorate regarding the dimensions of the extension organization's quality. The study used the extension organization quality scale developed by Diab (2017)The scale consists of 66 items distributed over five dimensions: institutional and field capacity of the extension agency (12 items), strategic planning and senior management support for quality in agricultural extension (9 items), administrative arrangements in the extension agency (16 items), culture and efficiency of institutional communications in the extension agency (16 items), and capabilities of employees in the extension agency (13 items).The research was conducted on 56 extension personnel in Assiut Governorate Data were collected using questionnaire forms from January to February 2024. Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, and median were used for data presentation and analysis. The results indicated a negative gap between the respondents' perceptions and their expectations of the quality of the agricultural extension organization.