The purpose of this research was to assess effectiveness of agricultural extension workers in the use of information and communication technology for rural farmers in north east zone, Nigeria, the specific objectives were to determine the effectiveness of Agricultural extension workers in the use of ICT in farm visit for rural farmers, to determine the effectiveness of Agricultural extension Workers in the use of ICT on the farm lectures for farmers, to determine the effectiveness of Agricultural extension workers in the use of ICT in conducting research for rural farmers and to determine the effectiveness of Agricultural extension workers in the Use of ICT in training session conducted for rural farmers , four research questions were formulated to guide the study , the target population of this study composed Agricultural extension workers in Gombe, Bauchi and Adamawa state of Nigeria with a population of 363 extension workers and all farmers in the study area, a total sample size of 1488 respondents (both rural farmers and extention workers) were used for the study, the sample was obtained through purposive sampling and multistage sampling, purposive sampling was used to obtain the sample size of all 363 Agricultural extension workers, while For farmers, a sample size of 1125 farmers were randomly selected using multistage sampling which is the sampling technique adopted based on stages. The data collected were analyzed using mean and Z- test. The mean was used to answer research questions 1 to 4, using the true class limit of real numbers of the assigned value of the respond categories which were used for taking decision while z test was used to test the four null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.

The findings of this Study revealed that out of the seven suggested items by the researcher on effectiveness of agricultural extension workers in the use of ICT in farm visit for rural farmers, four items were accepted while three items were rejected which indicates effectiveness extension workers in the use of ICT in farm visit for rural on the effectiveness of Agricultural Extension Workers on the farm lectures for farmers out of the six items suggested two were accepted while four items were rejected which implies ineffectiveness of the extension workers on that aspect likewise on the use of ICT in conducting research for rural farmers all the items were accepted which means Agricultural Extension Workers are very effective on the use of ICT in conducting research for rural farmers likewise on effectiveness of agricultural extension workers on the effectiveness of agricultural extension workers in the use of ICT in training session for rural farmers three were accepted and three were rejected out of the six items.