Farmers' implementation of the extension recommendations of orange crop production in some governorates of Egypt

Eatiat Allah, A. S. S.; Abo Enein, M. A.; Draz, S. M. A.; Elnagar, M. F. A.

doi:10.21608/aasj.2022.151611.1128

Farmers' implementation of the extension recommendations of orange crop production in some governorates of Egypt

Document Type : Research article

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¹ Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

² Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

10.21608/aasj.2022.151611.1128

Abstract

This research aimed to: (1) Identify farmers' implementation level of the extension recommendations of orange crop production in some governorates of Egypt, (2) Identify the orange crop production problem views respondents and their suggestions to overcome them, (3) To examine the relationship between the respondents’ implementation degree of the extension recommendations and their studied characteristics. The research was conducted in three Egyptian governorates, namely, Beheira, Giza, and Assiut, on a random sample of 363 respondents in six villages. Data were collected by questionnaire; frequencies, percentages, and spearman's rank correlation coefficient were used to for data presentation and analysis. The results indicated that the extension recommendations level of implementation for 47.6 of the respondents was low.

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