This research aimed to identify the obstacles to administrative creativity of agricultural extension managers in Iraq . To achieve the research objectives, a questionnaire was prepared through the literature and previous studies related to the subject and the opinions of specialized experts and their approval were taking , so the final consisting of (58) paragraphs distributed over (3) areas. The research community included all agricultural extension managers, numbering (223) respondents. The research results have shown the existence of several obstacles that limit the administrative creativity of agricultural extension managers in Iraq, including organizational and administrative obstacles, which has come in first place with a weighted average of (3.48) degrees, and a percentage weight of (69.55%) degrees, followed by obstacles related to external environmental conditions with a weighted average of (3.41) degrees, and a percentage weight of (68.23%), while personal obstacles has come in last place with a weighted average of (2.59) degrees, and a percentage weight of (51.8%). Accordingly, we recommend that the responsible authorities in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension and Training Department adopt the research results and work to overcome and Treat these obstacles and focus more on organizational and administrative obstacles .
Merza et al. (Sat,) studied this question.