Farmers' knowledge and application of recommendations for integrated pest management of agricultural soil pests in Qena Governorate, Egypt

Nagi, A. A.; Salem, H. E. A.

doi:10.21608/aasj.2025.416191.1209

Farmers' knowledge and application of recommendations for integrated pest management of agricultural soil pests in Qena Governorate, Egypt

Document Type : Research article

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A. A. Nagi ¹
H. E. A. Salem ²

¹ Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assuit, Egypt

² Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

10.21608/aasj.2025.416191.1209

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the level of knowledge and application of the farmers surveyed for the recommendations of integrated pest management of agricultural soil pests, and to identify the obstacles to the application of the recommendations of integrated pest management of agricultural soil pests. This research was conducted on a sample of farmers in the selected research villages, numbering 113 farmers. Two centers were randomly selected, namely Nag Hammadi and Farshout. A village was also randomly selected from each center, namely Al-Najahiya village in Nag Hammadi Center, and Al-Osirat village in Farshout Center. Data was collected from the respondents through personal interviews using a questionnaire. Frequencies, percentages, weighted arithmetic mean, and simple correlation coefficient were used to display and analyze the data. The research reached a set of results, the most important of which are: the overall level of knowledge of the farmers surveyed regarding the recommendations of integrated pest management of agricultural soil pests was low at 74.3%, and the overall level of application of the recommendations of integrated pest management of agricultural soil pests was low at 75.2%. It also became clear that the most important obstacles facing the farmers surveyed in applying the recommendations of Integrated control of agricultural soil pests was: weak role of agricultural extension in spreading integrated control methods of soil pests by (98.2%), weak adoption of the organic farming system by farmers (95.5%), and farmers’ lack of conviction in alternatives to various pesticides by (92.0%).

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