农业推广是通过农民教育将科学研究和新知识应用于农业. 农业推广意味着所有便利农 民、其团体、组织和其他市场行为者获得知识、信息和技术的活动. 它促进作物、牲畜 或鱼类生产者与其他利益攸关方（如研究人员、培训机构、农业企业公司和其他相关组 织）的互动。最终，农业推广通过发展自己的技术、组织和管理技能和做法来建设农民 的能力。农业推广使农民的知识、态度、技能和愿望发生变化。 赞比亚正在实施农业推广服务，以支持该国各类农民，特别是小规模农民，以提 高其生产能力并最终增加家庭收入。在赞比亚，有两个主要渠道提供延伸服务，即;一 方面，农场研究所、畜牧服务中心和农民培训中心，以及渔业、作物和牲畜的农业区块 和营地网络. 这项研究旨在对后一种渠道实现平衡的观点，审查是否有一个农业推广干事提供 给每个小规模农民，以及这些推广干事是否具备必要的技能和材料，以便向这些小规模 农民提供高质量和可持续的推广服务。因此，这项研究的主要目标是确定农业推广服务 对小规模农民作物生产的影响，偏向雨水喂养的玉米。在奇邦博中心对推广官员和小规 模农民随机管理两种不同类型的问卷，以收集案例分析所需的数据. 本文的主要内容表 明，目前农业推广服务的实施具有推广干事/农民比例高、推广干事在职/再培训差距大 的特点。另一个重大挑战是，虽然向农民提供了处理害虫的信息，但不足以对付 2018/2019年期间入侵小规模农民的新型军虫，即秋虫。除其他步骤外，建议增加在职 可考试培训课程，增加区块和营地推广干事的人数，以弥合推广干事/农民比率，达到 建议的1：400，向推广干事提供充足和可靠的运输和后勤支助。 关键词：推广干事、推广服务、小规模农民、地区农业协调员 i Abstract Agricultural extension is the implementation of scientific study and new ideas through farmer education to agriculture. Agriculture extension includes all the activities that promote access to expertise, information, and technology for farmers, their communities, organisations, and other market actors.It facilitates interaction with other stakeholders such as researchers, training institutions, agri-business firms, and other relevant organizations by crop producers, livestock or fish. Agricultural extension effectively develops the potential of farmers by creating their own technological, managerial, and management skills and practices Agricultural extension leads to improvements in farmers' awareness, attitudes, expertise and expectations. Agricultural extension services are being implemented in Zambia to support all categories of farmers in the country especially small scale farmers in order to increase their production capacities and ultimately to increase their household incomes. In Zambia, there are two main channels for extension services delivery namely; Farm Institutes, Livestock Service Centres and Farmer Training Centres on one hand and, the network of agricultural blocks and camps for fisheries, crops and livestock on the other hand. This study was designed to achieve a well-balanced view on the latter channel, to examine whether there is an agricultural extension officer available to every small scale farmer and whether these extension officers are equipped with the necessary skills and materials to deliver quality and sustainable extension services to these small scale farmers. The primary purpose of this analysis therefore was to assess the effect of agricultural extension services on small scale farmers’ crop production with a bias towards rain fed Maize. Two different type Questionnaires were randomly administered on Extension Officers and small scale farmers in Chibombo Central to collect data required for case analysis. The main content of this paper demonstrates that, currently agricultural extension services implementation is characterized by high levels of Extension Officer/farmer ratio, Extension officer’s in-service/retraining gaps. The other major challenge was that although farmers were furnished with information to deal with pests, it was not adequate to deal with new type of army worm, the Fall worm, that had invaded small scale farmers during 2018/2019. The study recommends, among other steps, scaling up on in-service examinable training curriculum, Increase in the number of Block and Camp extension officers in order to bridge the Extension officer/ farmer ratio and reach the recommended 1:400 and provision of adequate and reliable transport and logistical support to Extension officers. ii