THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS OF RURAL FAMILY IN BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE | ||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 10, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 1-16 PDF (467.72 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2014.193677 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Zeinab Awad Abdelhamid1; Hanan Makram Farag2 | ||
| 1Agriculture Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural | ||
| 2Research Center, Rural Community Research Department,Giza, Egypt . | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The study aimed at identifyingrural family’ ssocial and economic developmental needs and infrastructure developmental needs, and finally, to identify rural families’ suggestions to achieve these needs. The study was conducted in “Besntaway” and “Elziny” villages in Abohomos district, Beheira Governorate. Focus group discussions were used to obtain the required information and a check list reflecting the study’s objectives was prepared. About 8 FGD were conducted from both men and women of the rural families, 4 FGD for each village and each group included 10-12 persons, with a total number of 95 person (40 male and 55 females) and data were collected in September 2013. The most important research findings were as follows: 1- Social Developmental Needs: * The majority of the respondents indicated that the educational process quality is very low and they emphasized the importance of monitoring the instructors and the educational process. * Participation in formal organizations and NGOs, was low in general and among women in particular, and they expressed their need for support from these organizations and to encourage them to participate and be part of the decision-making process. * The respondents showed that they attended some extension symposiums but did not fulfil all their needs and they expressed their need to attend training courses. The needs for such training courses varied between males and females, as men focused on the need to have extension fields training, crop diseases, whereas women expressed their needs for rural development training i.e. food processing, handcrafts, SMEs, bee keeping. * The majority of respondents referred to their inability to get all the nutrients elements that is necessary for their bodies, due to financial issues that prevent them from buying foods as a result of their high prices, besides they allocate most of their budgets to educate their children. Therefore the respondents suggested to establish institutions that provide food for them, especially to poor families. * The results also revealed that the health unit, and hospitals does not have specialized doctors, and those who practice are inefficient, besides their absence, lack of medical equipment and they required to solve all these issues. 2- The Economic Developmental Needs * The majority of respondents indicated the lack of employment opportunities in the village due to fragmented agricultural landholdings, which led to internal migration of youth. As for women they lack appropriate jobs, especially within the traditions and customs that prevent them from seeking job opportunities outside their villages. Though, they emphasized the importance of providing them by suitable job opportunities to secure an income for them, besides providing social security for incapable families. * The majority of respondents showed that agriculture extension’s role is very weak in the village, therefore they expressed the need to enhance the role of agricultural cooperatives to provide inputs with suitable prices and in time, subsidize agricultural pesticides, in addition to solving farmers problems, particularly irrigation. 3- Infrastructure Developmental Needs * The respondents suffer from lack of water supply in their houses, polluted drinking water, electricity severance, and unpaved village roads. Thus, they emphasized on the importance of purifying drinking water and taking deterrent measurements towards those who cause canal pollution. * The most important respondents’ suggestions were follows: allocation agricultural lands to young graduates, provide job opportunities to them, to establish agricultural and nonagricultural productive projects, solve farmers’ problems regarding irrigation, besides providing continuous awareness to women to overcome social and cultural constraints that prevent their participation in the development process within their communities, in addition to providing training in rural development, establishing projects for recycling farm and house residues, improvement of the educational process, provide the social -health insurance for family members, and finally, to have institutions that provide food for the poor. | ||
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