SOME SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS RELATED TO RURAL WOMEN ADOPTION DEGREE OF LOCALLY DEVELOPED CHICKEN STRAINS IN SOME VILLAGES OF FAYOUM GOVERNORATE | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 4, Volume 30, Issue 11, November 2005, Pages 6763-6777 PDF (3.66 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2005.208496 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. S. Ahmed,; S. A. EI-Abassi; S. A. EI-Ghamrini | ||
| Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The main objectives of the research were: to identify degree of rural women's rejection of locally developed chicken strains in the study area; to identify impact of districts' difference (Fayoum and Ibshway) on level of rural women's rejection to adoption of locally developed chicken strains; to identify relationship between some studied independent variables and rural women's information deficiency related to locally developed chicken strains, attitude towards adoption of locally developed chicken strains, rural women's rejection to locally developed chicken strains; and to suggest causal model for identifying relationship between some studied independent variables and each of rural women's information deficiency related to locally developed chicken strains, attitude towards adoption of locally developed chicken strains, and rural women's rejection to locally developed chicken strains. The study data were collected during the period 2001-2002, and were re-evaluated in 2005, as a part of a project financed partly by the agricultural research Center. The study was conducted in Ibshway and Fayoum districts. A random sample composed of 250 rural women was used in this study (125 rural women's/ district). The study participants came from villages of Talat, EI-Shikh Faddel, and EI-Hamidia EI-Gadida/Fayoum District, and villages of Agamien, Tubbhar, and Sinro villages (Ibshway District). A written questionnaire and inter-personal interviews were used in collecting the study data. Ten questionnaires were excluded due to some errors in selecting those ten partie pants (the final sample was composed of 242 female participants) . Factor analysis, alpha coefficient, simple correlation coefficient, step- wise multiple regression, "t' test, path analysis, in addition to frequency table, percentage, percentage, range, and standard deviation were used in analyzing the obtained study data. The study findings revealed that there was a significant difference (0.01 significance level) between the two studied districts in relation with rejection of rural women to locally developed chicken strains. It was found that variables that have direct impact on rural women's rejection to locally developed chicken strains were the intermediate variable of attitude towards developed chicken strains, and the two independent variables of needs to special husbandry and rations, and visits paid by change agents to rural women. Variables that have indirect impact on rural women's rejection to locally developed chicken strains were information deficiency (intermediate variable), and the independent variables of participant's age, participant's obtained education, and exposure to means of mass media. It was also found those studied variable combined together explained 30% of the variance in the dependent variance, rural women's rejection to locally developed chicken strains, while the rest (70%) was unexplained referred to some other variables that were not included in the study. | ||
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