Behavior of The Farmers Related to Conservation Farm Land and Irrigation Water in Kafrelsheikh Governorate | ||
| Alexandria Science Exchange Journal | ||
| Article 27, Volume 29, October-December - Serial Number 4, October 2008, Pages 145-159 PDF (4.15 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2009.158963 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed Mohamed Heedak; Allam Mohamed Tantawy | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed mainly to determiningthebehavior of the farmers with regard to land and water conservation in Kafrelsheikh governorate. The research was conducted in the three districts of Desouk, Kafrelsheikh, and Seedy Salem. From those districts the three villages of Abu Zeyadah, Es-haka and Boureed were selected. The population size was (951 farmers) the sample size was decided according to krejcie and Morgan tables to be 274 farmers representing 29% of the population. Personal questionnaire was used to collect research data from the interviewees. correlation coefficient, simple & multiple linear regression coefficients in addition to frequencies were used to analyze data. The most important results may be summarized as follows: 1-The mode of the distributions of respondents accounting knowledge, attitudes and implementation of conservation practices of farm land and irrigation water were all in the medium category. 2- The top practices implemented by the respondents to conserve farm land and irrigation water were: plowing and good tillage for land before planting each crop, good leveling of the land save water and facilitates irrigation. 3- There were positive and significant correlation relationships at level of 0.01 between knowledge about conserving farm land and village satisfaction, size of animal holding, and vailability of community facilities. The variables of education, development participation, agricultural innovativeness and size of animal holding had positive and significant correlation relationships at level of 0.01 with knowledge about conservation of irrigation water. 4- There were positive and significant correlation relationships at level of 0.01 between attitudes towards conserving of farm land and development participation, agricultural innovativeness and village satisfaction. While the relationship was positive correlation at level of 0.01 between attitudes towards conserving of irrigation water and sources of obtaining of environmental information, development participation, availability of community facilities, and agricultural innovativeness. 5- The implementation of respondents for the practices of conserving of both farm land and irrigation water correlated with education, sources of obtaining of environmental information, and membership of social organizations, development participation, availability of community facilities, agricultural innovativeness and size of animal holding. 6-The ten independent variables together explain 10.2%, 45.9%, 5.00%, 70.9%, 16.6%, and 27.5% of the variation explained in the total degree of the components of behavior about conserving of farm land and irrigation water. | ||
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