Assessing the impact of agricultural education programmes on farm production in rural agricultural communities in Yoni Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone

The farmers in the northern region of Sierra Leone grow cereal crops, vegetables, root leguminous crops and fruits. majority cultivate only a small or moderate size plots usually scattered different location using crude tools such as hoes machetes. Prevalent most areas is subsistence farming whereby each family struggle to produce barely enough food feed its household. need for agricultural education mechanization agriculture essential community order increase productivity. study therefore carried out investigate impact Agricultural Educational Programmes on Farm Production Yoni Chiefdom.The used mixed design, consisting descriptive inferential statistics. Qualitative quantitative approaches were capture data. population 183 subjects with sample 73 from Mamala Mabanta Chiefdoms. significant findings include following: programs implemented chiefdom, major chiefdom cash ruminants, improved poultry Inland swamp rice; popular effective teaching methods implementation programmes hands activities, demonstration methods, radio farm visitation. It concluded that there certain even though but not common: these fish farming, bee leadership development, show, production fibres.Major recommendations were: should be encouraged practice farming; an method adults regularly chiefdom. Also, Government improve road network leading rural Communities Chiefdom.