STUDY THE REALITY OF USAGES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN THEAGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES IN SUGAR BEET AREA OF ALEXANDRIA GOVERNORATE | ||
| Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 21, Volume 42, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 297-317 PDF (217.95 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jsas.2016.2898 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The study aims to recognize the reality of the usages of information andcommunication technology in the agricultural cooperatives in sugar beet areain Alexandria Governorate, and get to know some personal, economic,communicative and social characteristics, and to identify the obstacles facedby farmers and suggestions to solve them.The study included a sample of (60) respondents represented all memberboards of cooperatives representing about 40% of the total number of member boards of cooperative societies in Sugar Beet area, Data werecollected by personal interviews during May 2016, using a personalquestionnaire, It has been used a number of statistical methods appropriate tothe nature of data collected and the goals of the study. Where they used thepercentages, duplicates, arithmetic average of the description and comparison of the respondents.Following the summary of the most important finding:-The results show that respondents from the middle age group increased by45%, it turns out that the vast majority of the respondents were married (88.33%), as it turns out that (78.33%) of respondents graduates fromuniversity, The results also showed that most respondents with averagefamily of 5-8 members, the most important sources of agriculturalinformation that respondents exposed are: input dealers, relations andneighbors, then the agricultural television programs, and then extensionofficers. -The results show that majority of respondents (80%) use the Internet, It wasclear from the results that the reasons due to non-use of respondents toInternet are the lack of ownership of computers, they haven't a modernmobile telephone, they haven't knowledge of usage Internet, and the highfinancial cost.-The results show that the most important obstacles facing the respondentsare: the shortage of numbers of PC inside associations, sluggish ofInternet, the publicadministration for agricultural cooperation not care ofInternet services, and also the results showed that the most proposedsolutions of respondents are: preparation of training courses for membersboard of agricultural cooperatives in the areas of information andcommunication technology, creating of electronic networks withgovernment, agricultural research and extension to solve societiesproblems, and strengthen the mobile networks and the Internet to ruralareas. | ||
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