Abstract:
Ethiopia is one of the countries on the African continent with highest agricultural potential. Its natural
resources base is the foundation of any economic development, food security and other basic necessities of
its people. Predominantly smallholder agriculture is the dominant sector of the national economy.
Smallholder agriculture is the dominant sector of the national economy. To boost the production and
productivity of the agriculture sector; the extension systems is expected to play paramount role. However,
the agricultural system is still characterized by low level of Agricultural service delivery practice that
couldn’t move the existing traditional agriculture in to modern. The objective of the study is toexamine
constraints in addressing women farmers and rural youth and to assess constraints of extension system in
promoting agricultural technologies to farmers in the study area. Primary and Secondary data was
collected for the study purpose. In addition to respondents’ interview, focus group discussion, key
informants interview and case studies were used for qualitative data analysis. Descriptive statistics of
mean, standard devotions and percent was applied. For statistical tests, chi-square, T-test, Pearson and
spearman’s correlation coefficient were employed. As a conclusion, the challenges of existing public
agricultural extension service provision institutional, technological and technical and in terms of
addressing cross-cutting issues such as environment and gender as theses have wider contexts to look into
existing endogenous and exogenous constraints.
