FARMERS ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE RETURN OF MANDATORY AGRICULTURAL ROTATION IN SOME VILLAGES OF MINIA GOVERNORATE | ||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 17, Volume 30, Issue 2, July 2016, Pages 118-133 PDF (615.09 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2016.191761 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hamdy El Sherif | ||
| Researcher in the Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Institute | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed at determining the attitudes of the farmers respondents towards the return of the mandatory of agricultural rotation, determining the relationship between the independent variables and the farmers attitudes, and determining the contribution of each related independent variables in explaining the variation in the farmers attitudes towards the return of the mandatory agricultural rotation. The study was done in minia governorate which were selected randomly, three randomly centers were also selected and one village from each center was selected randomly to be located in the north, the middle and the south of the governorate, these villages were: Elgendia in Beni mazar, Mahdya in Elminia, and Nazlet Tona in Mallawy. A sample of 175 respondents representing 10% of the total farmers were selected randomly and systematically from the records of agricultural cooperatives in the selected villages. Data was collected through personal interviews by using pretested questionnaire in June 2016. Frequencies, percentages simple correlation, chisquare , compatibility coefficient and multiple correlation , and regression were used to present and analyze data statistically. The results showed that: 65%of the respondents had a high level of attitudes towards the return of the mandatory agricultural rotation, while 18.9%of them had a moderate level of attitudes, and 16%had a low level of attitudes. The result showed that there was significant relation between the level of education, the grown area, the crop, the membership of organization, the source of information and the farmers' attitudes towards the return of mandatory agricultural rotation. The results showed that there were three variables that contributed by 12.7% in explaining the variation in the farmers' attitudes towards mandatory agricultural rotation which were age, education and grown area. | ||
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