@article{Mohamad Ikbal Bahua_2016, title={Assessing professional competencies of agricultural extension workers: A case study of Indonesian’s agribusiness sector}, volume={5}, url={https://www.sjournals.com/index.php/sjas/article/view/187}, abstractNote={<p>The issue of professional competencies is not a new or&nbsp; unusual one for professional fields, including in Agribusiness&nbsp; sector. In line with the demands of today’s high competitive&nbsp; organizations, professional&nbsp; competencies&nbsp; become the&nbsp; central&nbsp; of management job descriptions for a corpus of individuals or person. This paper describes the&nbsp; study result of a assessment&nbsp; of&nbsp; Professional Competencies of Agricultural Extension Workers (AEWs) in Province Gorontalo, Indonesia. The objectives of this&nbsp; study are as follows: (1) to identify competencies that can be&nbsp; applied to agricultural extension agents in agribusiness rice&nbsp; in&nbsp; the sub-district Kabila and subdistrict Tilongkabila, Gorontalo,&nbsp; Indonesia,&nbsp; (2)&nbsp; to&nbsp; find&nbsp; out the&nbsp; factors&nbsp; that&nbsp; influence agricultural&nbsp; extension agents’ competence in agribusiness rice in the sub-district Kabila and&nbsp; sub-district&nbsp; Tilongkabila.&nbsp; This type of research is descriptive statistics. The method used in this study is a survey&nbsp; method, where data collected through interviews and questionnaires. Based on the study, competency of agricultural extension agents in the Kabila and Tilongkabila sub-districts on rice agribusiness consisting: the ability to design educational programs, the&nbsp; ability to implement education&nbsp; programs&nbsp; and&nbsp; the&nbsp; ability to manage information dissemination. While the factors that influence agricultural extension agents’&nbsp; competence, namely:&nbsp; knowledge, skills and attitudes of educators in designing educational programs, counseling programs to implement and manage agricultural field officer information.</p>}, number={7}, journal={Scientific Journal of Animal Science}, author={Mohamad Ikbal Bahua}, year={2016}, month={Jul.}, pages={333-338} }