This study assessed the attitude of farmers towards agricultural extension services in Ondo State, Nigeria. It describes the socioeconomic characteristics of farmers, ascertains their awareness of extension services, the frequency of access and constraints to accessing such services. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select 100 farmers, and the data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results revealed that most of the respondents were male (94%), middle-aged (35-54years), married (85.0%), and educated (77%). The farmers’ attitudes towards extension services were influenced by the aspiration to become agripreneurs(xŻ =2.13), increase average monthly income from farming (xŻ =2.06) and adopt new methods of farming (xŻ =1.93). While 79% of respondents were aware of the existence of agricultural extension agents, more than half (59%) had no contact with these agents, while 50% experienced a quarterly visit. The constraints to accessing agricultural extension services were inadequate extension personnel (xŻ = 2.27), poor transportation networks (xŻ = 2.24), inaccessible roads (xŻ = 2.24), and insufficient extension equipment or facilities (xŻ = 2.13). Respondents’ socioeconomic characteristics were significantly related to attitude towards agricultural extension services. The study recommends the adoption of a farmer-centric extension services model, wardbased extension clustering to improve visitation frequency and the use of mobile phone-based advisory services to bridge contact gaps.
Attitude, extension services, socioeconomic, awareness, access, farmers, constraints