Fisheries Extension Education (2+1)

4.5.2.5 Laggards

- Traditional

- Last to adopt an innovation in a system

- By the time laggards adopt an innovation, it may already have been superseded by a recent idea in the system

- Most localite and interact primarily with those who have traditional values

- Tend to be suspicious about innovations, innovators and extension agents.

- Little or no education, least participation in extension programmes and hardly have any contacts with outside world

- Generally resource-poor, live in areas having least urban influence

- Socially and economically most disadvantaged