Adoption Wheat Farmers Some Guiding Recommendations to Limit the Effects of Climate Change in Some Villages of North Sinai Governorate | ||
| Alexandria Science Exchange Journal | ||
| Article 11, Volume 44, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 17-43 PDF (683.17 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2023.284435 | ||
| Author | ||
| Soliman Ayash* | ||
| Department of Economics and Rural Development (Agricultural Extension) - College of Environmental Agricultural Sciences -Al-Arish University - Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed mainly at studying the variables affecting wheat farmers' adoption of some guiding recommendations to reduce the effects of climate change in some villages of North Sinai Governorate, by identifying some personal, economic and social characteristics of the farmers surveyed in North Sinai Governorate, and identifying the level of adoption by the respondent farmers of some guiding recommendations. To limit the effects of climatic changes on the wheat crop in some villages of North Sinai Governorate, and to determine the relationship between the independent variables studied and the degree of adoption of some of the guiding recommendations by the surveyed farmers to reduce the effects of climate changes on the wheat crop in some villages of North Sinai Governorate, and to determine the percentage of the contribution of variables that have a significant relationship with the degree of adoption. And to identify some of the agricultural productivity problems facing the respondents in the field of cultivation and production of the wheat crop as a result of climatic changes, and to achieve the objectives of the research, a systematic random sample was selected from the lists of the confused in the Agricultural Cooperative Society in the Arish Center. farmers, and a regular random sample from the lists of holders of the cooperative The agricultural sector in the Bir al-Abd center reached 100 farmers, representing about 50% of the total 200 wheat farmers in the center. The questionnaire was used by personal interview to collect data. Many statistical methods were used to analyze the research data to achieve its objectives and test its hypotheses, including descriptive statistics methods, simple correlation coefficient, and analysis Step-wise, the most important results of the research are summarized as follows, that 52% of the respondents have an average level of adoption, and it was also shown from the results of the upward multiple regression analysis that there are six independent variables that contribute to explaining the variation in the degree of the respondents’ adoption of some extension recommendations To reduce the effects of climatic changes in the research area, and these variables were able to explain about 32.8% of the variation in the degree of adoption by the respondent farmers of some guiding recommendations to reduce the effects of climatic changes in the research area, and these variables are (awareness of the phenomenon of climate changes, experience in growing wheat The average productivity of an acre of wheat crop, the degree of satisfaction with the economic return of the wheat crop, familiarity with the concept of sustainable development. Environmental nation, level of benefit from agricultural information sources). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Adoption; Climate Changes; Agricultural Extension; North Sinai Governorate | ||
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