The Role of Agricultural Extension in Developing the Irrigation Knowledge of Farmers Using the Developed Field Irrigation System in Some Villages of Kafr Elsheikh Governorate | ||
| Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research | ||
| Volume 48, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 359-368 PDF (936.16 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajar.2023.316093 | ||
| Author | ||
| M. A. Albaz* | ||
| Department of Agricultural extension and Rural Society, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed to determine the respondents’ knowledge degree of the irrigation guidance recommendations, and to determine the degree to which agricultural extension educate the respondents, and the degree to which respondents benefit from the role of agricultural extension in the awareness process, and to determine the relationship between the independent variables of the respondents and the degree of their knowledge of the irrigation guidance recommendations. The research was conducted on a sample of farmers that amounted to 381 respondents, The final data were collected during the months of November and December 2021AD using a questionnaire form, Data was collected The data was analyzed using a tabular display with frequencies, percentages, weighted average, and Pearson’s simple correlation coefficient, and the results showed that 68% of the respondents had a high level of knowledge of the guiding recommendations in general, and that 54.4% They believe that counseling carries out the awareness-raising process to a moderate degree, and that 50.6% They benefit from the role of counseling to a moderate degree, and the results showed that there is a problem of “not providing guards to the motors station, which exposes it to theft” from the viewpoint of 85.6% of the respondents: Number of years of education, number of years of using the developed field irrigation system, farmers’ attitude towards agricultural innovations, farmers’ attitude towards agricultural extension, farmers’ attitude towards the developed field irrigation system, and their total knowledge of irrigation extension recommendations. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| The role of agricultural extension; Irrigation knowledge; The developed field irrigation system; The development of irrigation knowledge | ||
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