The study revealed that the dominant Agricultural extension approaches used in the rice sector in Cameroon is ToT and T&V. The methods of information circulation using these approaches are individual and group methods. The extension approaches has been criticized for its ineffectiveness especially in the circulation of information in rice production. lack of room for participation in the manner of implementing agricultural approaches (ToT and T&V), government bias policy towards the rice sector, weak linkage of farmers to research and other NGOs for assistance, no accessibility of modern technologies like the radio because its too expensive, insufficient finance, shortage of extension workers, behavioural altitude of extension workers towards the farmers, and women low access to information because they are not involved in extension activities are among the most cited problems hindering the effectiveness of extension services in the rice sector in Cameroon. Apart from these general constraints, the finding revealed that the problems extension workers specifically faces that hinders their work performance in effective information circulation in rice production includes low salary, lack of technical aids, to many farmers to attain to, too technical information to communicate to farmers and no reliable transport. In an attempt to improve the extension services in the rice sector in Cameroon, the information circulation frame work was established whereby the three main stakeholders involved in information circulation, that is research, extension and farmers organization were linked in such a way that each actor does what it can do best in enhancing dissemination and utilization of agricultural information all geared towards the rice famers. Whereas supportive government policy, creation of community radio stations, strong link between farmers and researchers and a bottom up implementation of extension approach in information dissemination in Ndop rice can be a good starting point for effective information circulation in Ndop rice production in Cameroon.

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