STUDYING THE PROBLEMS FACING THE SETTLEMENT OF GRADUATES IN NEWLY RECLAIMED AREAS | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 6, Volume 27, Issue 6, June 2002, Pages 3909-3920 PDF (3.14 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2002.255562 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. M. M. Mooawad,1; A. E. EI-Khafif2 | ||
| 1Dept. of Rural Society and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture-Ain Shams University. | ||
| 2Rural Sociology Dept., National Center for Research - Dokki | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The study objective is to recognize the degree of graduate settlement in the area of the study and the personal, family and societal factors affecting such settlement as well as the reasons for the desire of either settlement or non-settlement of researche graduates in the area subject to research and the most significant problems restricting such settlement in this area. The study has been carried out in AI taqadom village, Kantara District, Ismailia governorate as a geographical field for the study. The sample of the study has amounted to 100 research at a sampling rate of 22% of total graduates of the village amounting to 450 graduates. Data have been gathered through a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose after ensuring its validity and soundness. Period of gathering the data has lasted for one month starting from Aug. 2001. Statistical methods appropriate for data presentation and analysis such as percentages, table presentation, arithmetic means, simple correlative coefficients, and the stip-wise correlation model have been used. Findings indicated that the majority of researchee graduates had little settlement and there were six variables to which 24% of discrepancy in the degree of graduate settlement is attributed, namely, they are the work of the wire, size of the family, residence before taking the land, profession before taking the land, age and marital status. The findings showed also that the most significant problems facing the researchee graduates according to percentage as it is of high materiality are as follows in a descending order; not obtaining the title deed of the reclaimed handed over land (69%), exploitation of agricultural commodities by traders and lack of sales and distribution outlets (48%), lack of incentives granted to graduates upon receiving the land (81 %), high cost and expenditures resulting from the use of land (81 %), high cost and expenditures resulting from the use of land (81 %) and lack of payment for reclamation costs due to the graduate (71 %) and lack of post offices in the region (67%). | ||
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