FARMERS' OPINIONS REGARDING AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS AS AN EXTENSION EDUCATION METHOD ACQUAINTING THEM WITH MODERN AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUES. "A CASE STUDY ON THEW SAHARA AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION" CAIRO, A.R.E | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||
| Article 35, Volume 80, Issue 3, September 2002, Pages 1453-1480 PDF (6.5 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2002.312672 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ABDEL-HAMID I. AHMED; TAHA M. A. EL-FISHAWY; BAKR A. ABDEL-RAHMAN | ||
| Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The main objectives of this research are as follows: • Identifying the farmers' opinions towards the agricultural exhibitions as an extension education method acquainting them with modern tech-niques and innovations in agriculture. • Pointing out the Information sources through which farmers could know the exact date and location of the exhibition. • High-lightening the main ways of making use of the exhibitions as well as farmers' visit motivations. • The most influential changes affecting agricultural exhibitions as well as farmers' suggestions to develop them. This research was conducted on a selection of 247 visitors of 14th Sahara Agricultural Exhibition. The following characteristics were highly put into consideration at the selection process: • Visitors should be farmers who are landowners. • They also may be farm or agricultural plant labors assigned to agricul-tural productive activities. Data was collected, starting from 9/9/2001 till the end of the exhibition on 12/9/2001, through a developed questioner, filled out in an interview with each respondent The data was analyzed statistically by using the frequencies, percentage, arithmetic mean, and Chi-Square. The main findings and the extracted conclusions were as follows: • Over (60.79%) approved of agricultural exhibitions as an extension education, method illustrating the modern techniques and innovation in agriculture. • A significant effective relationship between the educational status var-iable and the multiplicity of agricultural activities variable on one hand and the farmers' opinion regarding Agricultural Exhibitions as an Exten-sion education method on the other hand, whereas the same relation-ship was not significant as shown in terms of the other independent studied variables. • Daily newspapers were the main source through which farmers knew about the date and location of the exhibition. • The main motivations behind visiting the exhibition were as follows: | ||
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