Agricultural Extension services serves are essential for citrus growers to increase the citrus production of the farming communities for improving their socio economic conditions for discouraging the illegal immigration of Afghanistan’s youth. The current research study was carried out to analyze the farmers’ perception about expertise of extension workers in enhancing citrus production in Nangarhar Province-Afghanistan. Nangarhar Province was universe of the study and multi stage sampling technique was used to draw the required sample. Nangarhar is comprised of 22 Districts where District Bati Kot was purposively selected at stage I. Five villages out of 12 were selected on basis of citrus cultivation. A list of 200 citrus growers was obtained from Agriculture Extension Department. For data collection 60% of the citrus growers were sampled by following proportional allocation technique at villages level gave us 120 respondents. A pretested interview schedule was used to collect primary data which was analyzed through SPSS and results were presented as counts and percentages. Moreover, rank order, mean and standard deviation was used for association the extension workers’ expertise, while chi-square test was used to find the association between different variables. The empirical results shows that 31.7% of citrus growers in the study area were in the age of 40-50 years, 66.7% citrus growers had small land holdings of 1 to 6 acres, with 39.2% of them had citrus growing experience of 6-10 years. About 45.8% citrus growers obtained citrus yield ranging from 3001 to 6000 kg/acre. About 53.3% citrus growers reported that the extension field staff did not visit their farms while 20% reported their visits once in a year. About 60.8% respondents reported the availability of extension services in the study area and 38.3% citrus growers availed the trainings. The ranking skills of extension workers as per citrus growers' point of view were the skills of extension workers in picking of citrus was forecasting maturity and yield which was ranked 1^st with highest mean 3.467 and standard deviation 1.099. The findings revealed highly significant association between average yield of citrus and skills of extension workers in plant protection for citrus fruits. It is concluded that majority of the citrus growers were illiterate and were not satisfied from agriculture extension staff. The study recommends that extension workers may visit citrus producers’ orchards on regular basis to give basic knowledge about new profitable citrus production practices to improve the socio-economic conditions of the citrus growing community by improving their citrus production on sustainable basis.

Keywords:  Assessment, extension workers, expertise, citrus production