Assessment of the extension needs of tomato farmers in Assiut governorate, Egypt | ||
| Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal | ||
| Article 35, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2022, Pages 219-234 PDF (705.86 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aasj.2022.176853.1134 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Kh. M. H. Hussein* ; M. F. S. Abdelsalam; M. F. S. A. Elnagar; A. A. Nagy | ||
| Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research aimed at: (1) assessing the extension needs of the respondents from farmers in the production and marketing of the tomato crop, (2) estimating the extension needs of the respondents in the production and marketing extension recommendations of the crop, and (3) determining the correlation between the extension needs of the respondents and the independent variables studied. The research was conducted on a random sample of 252 tomato farmers in six villages in Assiut governorate. Data were collected by questionnaire during the period from April to May 2022. Frequencies, percentages and arithmetic mean were used for data presentation. Quantitative methods were used to needs assessment (Borich equation, Delta N equation, a modified Delta N, and the new approach). Through the results of the research, it was possible to arrange the processes of production and marketing of the tomato crop according to the methods of quantitative assessment of the extension needs as follows: fertilization, adding sulfur, harvesting, hoeing and weeding, soil preparation, integrated control, packing, cultivation methods, fruit completion and harvest dates, varieties, Fruit sorting, irrigation, transportation, and seedling quality. Significant coloration was found at significant levels of 0.05, 0.01 between the extension needs of the respondents and their independent variables: education, farm area, area cultivated with tomatoes, family members, agricultural workers, seminar attendance, information sources, age. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| assessment; the extension needs; tomato; Assiut | ||
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